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
Marked cards are commonplace because they are easy to obtain.
Marked cards are commonplace because they are easy to obtain. Anyone can purchase marked card decks from gambling-supply houses located in most cities of the United States. These marked decks and those obtained at many trick and novelty stores are supposedly sold "for magician purposes only."
There are a great many antigambling laws in the United States but
There are a great many antigambling laws in the United States but there are none that prohibit the manufacture or sale of marked cards. Thousands of decks of marked cards are sold each week, and the only penalty is that the user may occasionally get his ears pinned back or his nose pushed in when a knowledgeable player rumbles the gaff.