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
Hoyle (According to). An incorrect term for any set of modern rules. In
Hoyle (According to). An incorrect term for any set of modern rules. In reference to Texas Hold'em Poker, Edmund Hoyle died in 1769 and Poker was first heard of in 1834, 65 years after his death, so Texas Hold'em Poker cannot be played "according to Hoyle."
Hoyle, Edmund. An English barrister and codifier of game rules who wrote a
Hoyle, Edmund. An English barrister and codifier of game rules who wrote a book on only three card games—Piquet, Whist and Quadrille—which are now obsolete.