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
checking on last round in, 186
checking on last round in, 186 criticism of players in, 189 dead hands in, 184 deal in, 180-81 dealer miscalls in, 187 dealer's edge in, 178 dealing in additional players for, 185 discards in, 187 dropping out of, 182 exposed card in, 185, 188 first two cards in, 196 "Five Bets" variation of, 224 folding in, 187, 197 freeze-out in, 180 High-Low, 200-01 hole card protection in, 185 husband and wife as players in, 189 illegal cutting of cards in, 189 improper dealing in, 185 improper fold-up in, 187 jackpot in, 179 Joker Wild variation of, 223 "last card down" variation of, 223- 224 Low, 199-200 misdeals in, 183-84 most highly publicized game, 189- 195 New York variation of, 224-25 One Card Buy or Substitution variant of, 227 open blind betting in, 179 optional betting limits in, 178-79 passing the deal in, 184 "Pig" variation of, 229
players' ante in, 179
players' ante in, 179 pot limit in, 179 probabilities of drawing various hands in, 172-73, 198-99 raising and reraising in, 181-82,197-98 rules of play for, 177-83 with "Spit" card, 226 strategy for, 195-98 table stakes in, 180 tapping out in, 187 third card in, 197-98 Three Card Substitution variant of, 226 Two Card Buy or Substitution variant of, 226 undealt cards in, 188 variations of, 222-41 verbal betting in, 186-87 without ante or dealer's edge, 195-96 Five Card Stud Deuces Wild, 222- 223 Five Card Stud with Bug, 223 Five Card Turn-up Stud, 228 Five of a Kind, 43 Fives and Tens, 123 Flamingo Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, 76 Flip Seven Card Stud, 232 Flush(es) rank of, 41 number of per deal, 164-65 odds against making in Seven Card Stud, 174 royal, see Royal flush