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
Royalties or Bonuses
Royalties or Bonuses Some players elect to pay a royalty to any player holding an exceptionally high-ranking hand, such as a royal flush, a straight flush, or four of a kind. This is not incorporated in my rules, and is optional with players. I mention it just to make this chapter definitive and complete. Royalties and bonuses on a royal flush or any other bonus hand are optional with the players, but as a rule are from three to five times the amount of the maximum permitted bet. Each player, whether active or not, must pay the player holding the bonus hand the amount agreed on at the start of the game.
Seating Positions
Seating Positions As a rule at the start of the game players may sit wherever they like. A new player may take any vacant seat he chooses unless the game is Dealer's Edge or Ante, in which case he must wait until it becomes his turn to deal before he can have cards. Just to avoid any possible dispute about seating positions, the start of the game, the seating of new players and the selection of the dealer, I think it might be well to incorporate the following rules into the game: