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
Types of Poker Games:
Types of Texas Hold'em Poker Games: Playing in a Tight Game. The game was Seven-Card stud, being played Wednesday afternoon, at the Senior Citizen Activity Center, in the day room. The game goes on five days a week, four hours a day, Monday through Friday, among the same five players. You were invited to play in the game by one of the player’s children.
The stakes are rather low:
The stakes are rather low: no ante, 5-cents to 25-cents bets, no checking and raising allowed, 2 raises maximum. The lowest card is required to start the betting with a 5-cent bet (a forced bet). A single tattered well-worn deck of cards is being used for the game. All of the Players, 1 through 5, appear to be tight players, each has $2 in coins in front of them. The average age of the five players is 88 years. You’re a thoughtful player, who loves to play poker, pulls out $5 in nickels and dimes to play.