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
Card mechanics, 246
Card mechanics, 246 Card memory, 75-76 Card mob, 244 Cards, see also Hand(s) chances of holding in Five Card Draw Texas Hold'em Poker, 169 dealing of, 51-55 discard of, 55-57, 187 illegal cutting of, 55 "stacking" of, 255-57 Card sense, 65 Card sharp, 28 Cards Speak, in Seven Card High-Low Split, 16, 47, 202, 210-12 Card tricks, 15-16, 72-73, 113-15, 189 Caro, "Crazy Mike," 72 Carroll, Sidney, 11 Carson, Johnny, 257 Casino Craps, 29 Chance, probability and, 29-31 see also Probability Changing positions, 56 Chaplin, Sydney, 111 Charles IX (of France), 25 Cheating, 28, 194-95, 242-70, see also Texas Hold'em Poker cheats bottom deal in, 252-53 in bridge, 219-21 "burning" top card to prevent, 92, 264 cut-shifting in, 250-51 extent of, 242-43 false cuts and, 254-55
false shuffle in, 253
false shuffle in, 253 "international signs" in, 262-63 marked cards in, 263-67 palming as, 261-62 signaling in, 262—63 "stacking the deck" in, 255-57 Check and Raise, 49 Checkerboard High-Low Draw, 240 Check or pass, 52 Chips lending of, 57, 68, 188 removal of from table, 57 placing of in pot, 58 value of by color, 48, 61 Cinch hand, 66, see also Pat hand Cincinnati (game), 142 Cincinnati Ohio (game), 143 Closed Online Hold'em Poker, 22, 89, see also Draw Coffeehousing, 53-54 Cold deck, 36 protection against, 258-61 Commercialized Online Hold'em Poker management performance in, 60 Scarne's General Rules for, 60-63 Community cards, in Spit in the Ocean variations, 139-51 cheating allegations in, 219-21 skill element in, 32-33 Cotton Club, New York, 190 Crazy Five Card High-Low Stud, 227-28 Criss Cross, 146 Criticism of players, 58, 189 Cross Over, 146 Cross Widow, 146 Curacao Stud, 238-39 Cutting the cards, 51, 55-56, 61 illegal method of, 189 Scarne Cut in, 51, 252, 257-58 shifting of cut in, 250-52