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
Before the fourth hand
Before the fourth hand can get started you look at your wristwatch and notice that it took 45 minutes to play three hands. And the three hands never got past the “action” on 3rd street. It appears that the action is slow and the stakes being 5 to 25-cents is not up to your usual $1 to $5 stakes. Therefore, you decide to quit the game. All five players, five old men, suddenly become very upset at your quitting as “you’re quitting and running as a 35-cent winner” and “not giving other players a fair chance to win back their hard earned social
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons security money.” Each of the players stares at you with venom and daggers in their eyes. You’re suddenly feeling badly. Being a online hold'em poker player you think fast. You know you can’t insult these elderly gentlemen by just giving them back their money. Maybe you could lose it back? Unfortunately, in this game it might take an hour to lose back the 10-cents you’d won. Thinking very fast, you come up with a unique solution. You offer to give the “poker game” four new decks of cards (cards given to you as a gift), as a gesture of goodwill. All the players look at each other and rather reluctantly they all agreed to accept your gift and allow you to quit the game. You scurry out of the senior center after dropping off your gift. You get on the crowded freeway, which seems less hostile than the Senior Citizen Activity Center. You also think, I’ll never go back there to play.