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
Big Sol, 156
Big Sol, 156 Bimbo High-Low, 225 Bing-O-Draw, 149-50 Binion, Benny, 14-16 Binion, Jack, 14 Black Jack systems, 81 Blind and Straddle, 108-10 blind bettors in, 132 old-time English, 111 table stakes in, 127-28 Blind betting in Blind and Straddle, 132 in Five Card Stud, 179 Blind Five Card Stud, 228-29 Blind Openers, 22, 115-16 Blind Straddle, in Blind and Straddle Draw Texas Hold'em Poker, 113 Blind Tiger, 108 Bluff (game), 25 Bluffing, 70-71 do's and don'ts of, 74, 87 in Draw Texas Hold'em Poker, 104 showdown and, 75 of wrong players, 87-88
Bootleggers, era of, 189-190
Bootleggers, era of, 189-190 Bouillotte, 25 Borrowing money or chips, 57, 68, 188 Boston, Meyer, 191-92 Boston, Sam, 191-92 Bottom deal, protection against, 252- 253 Bowe, Martin, 191-92 Braddock, James J., 124 Brag, 159-60 Brelan, 25 Brelancarre, 25 Bridge, cheating in, 219-21 Brunson, Doyle ("Texas Dolly"), 18, 70-72, 74, 78 "Bug," joker as, 106-08, 115, 223 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, 18 California house rake in, 20, 34 legal forms of Online Hold'em Poker in, 22, 131 California Draw Online Hold'em Poker, 16 with "bug," 106-08, 115, 223 California Lowball, 16, 131-34 hand improvement probabilities in, 134 pat hand in, 133 20 best-ranking hands in, 132 California Online Hold'em Poker clubs, 20-23 Calling, 53 in Five Card Stud, 183 freeze and, 49 strategy of, 87 Canadian Draw Online Hold'em Poker, 121 Canadian Five Card Stud, 225 Capone, Al, 190