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
The range of coffeehousing may include such heartbroken
The range of coffeehousing may include such heartbroken complaints as, "What lousy cards," or "One more hand like this and I'll find myself a new game"; or when the pot is raised, the coffeehouser may exclaim, "You're nuts to try and bluff me. I'll raise you, and I know you don't have the guts to reraise me." Or, the more subtle remark heard in big-money Texas Hold'em Poker games when in Stud a card is about to be dealt and the coffeehouser shouts, "Come Ace," when in reality he is wishing for a nine spot. Or a remark such as, "Throw your hand in, I don't want your money." Coffeehousing, when used too freely and too incautiously, may become a disadvantage to the perpetrator because the smart intended sucker realizes that the coffeehouser has more strength in his mouth than cards in his hand.
The Scarne Rules for Poker
The Scarne Rules for Online Hold'em Poker prohibit coffeehousing when the talk is directed to the play of the hand in progress. As to the penalty for coffeehousing, that must be left to the management or the players.