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
This was a challenge they couldn't resist and they went to work to
This was a challenge they couldn't resist and they went to work to prove that they could spot marked cards when they saw them. They even examined the card cases before opening the decks, looking for signs of tampering with the card-case sticker. After taking the decks from the cases, they did the same with the glassine paper in which the decks were wrapped. They found nothing. Then they began examining the backs of the cards. It was an arduous task but they stuck to it for a full hour; none of them wanted to admit that they couldn't spot a marked deck even after having been told the marks were there.
"Okay," one of them said finally. "We give up. Which one is it?"
"Okay," one of them said finally. "We give up. Which one is it?" "I have a confession to make," I said then. "I lied when I told you that one deck is marked." One man, deck in hand, nearly threw it at me. "That," he growled, "is a dirty trick if I ever saw one. We spend an hour looking for something that isn't there. Is this supposed to be funny or something?"