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
Luminous Readers: I put this one in mainly because it shows how
Luminous Readers: I put this one in mainly because it shows how little trust you or anyone should put in gambling-supply-house catalog copy. Some of the gimmicks they list, which the amateur cheat buys because he knows no better, are strictly sucker items. When the would-be cheat orders a deck of luminous readers at $25 to $50 per deck, he receives by express (these boys avoid using the mails) a red-backed deck of cards whose backs bear large numerals lightly marked in with green pencil. You also get a cheap pair of glasses with red-tinted lenses or a red-tinted, transparent eyeshade. When the card is viewed in red light the red back design fades out and the green markings turn dark and become visible for you alone. If you suspect this gimmick, simply ask to borrow the glasses or eyeshade for a moment. The cheater, if that is what he is, will probably be out the door and halfway down the stairs before you finish asking, because one look at the cards will convict him. Professional cheaters wouldn't be caught dead with such junk because they know that if they were caught with it they might end up dead.
The latest wrinkle in this department is a pair of tinted contact
The latest wrinkle in this department is a pair of tinted contact lenses made to your prescription. There is a nice profit on this sucker item; the charge is $300 per pair and up.