Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Signaling—Poker's Least Detected Cheating Practice
Signaling—Poker's Least Detected Cheating Practice Texas Hold'em Poker, like Bridge, is vulnerable to an illegal cheating practice that is next to impossible to eradicate. It involves two or more Texas Hold'em Poker-playing confederates who make use of illegal signal codes. Amateur, semiprofessional and professional cheats are all guilty of this practice. More money is lost to teams of signal cheats by all kinds of Texas Hold'em Poker players than by all the Texas Hold'em Poker cheating methods described in this chapter combined. No single Texas Hold'em Poker player, whether average, good or expert, has a ghost of a chance against a two-player team of signal cheats.
Many an otherwise honest Poker player thinks nothing of signaling a
Many an otherwise honest Online Hold'em Poker player thinks nothing of signaling a player friend to drop out of the pot when he holds a good hand. That is often done by secretly signaling the other player to drop out. Should the cheating friend have dropped out of the pot, it is common for him to turn to an adjacent active player to look at his hand, and should that active player hold a good or bad hand, the amateur cheat will use a signal to convey the necessary information to his accomplice.