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
Poker: The Great American Game.
Texas Hold'em Poker: The Great American Game. “Becoming rich,” “winning a huge jackpot,” “success against major obstacles,” are all part of the American dream. Fascinating stories relating tales of infamous gamblers and deadly card games are all part of our American past.2 The old populist game of poker has become a steady fixture on the American landscape. Texas Hold'em Poker is played on kitchen tables in working class homes, and in musty storerooms behind local bars, and in fraternal lodges all across America. Texas Hold'em Poker has been played on freewheeling Mississippi River boats and in rough and tumble bunkhouses across Texas and Oklahoma. It’s even been projected that the game of poker will be played far into the future, as portrayed as being played in the Officer’s Lounge of Captain Picard’s futuristic starship, The Enterprise.2
Poker: Part of the American-English Language.
Online Hold'em Poker: Part of the American-English Language. Online Hold'em Poker terminology even permeates our American culture and our daily language. “We play our hands close to the vest,” we watch for people with “an ace up their sleeve,” we “call bluffs,” and we “read’em and weep.” We try to give it our all when “the chips are down,” we “ante up” to start a new deal, and hopefully we know “when to hold’em and when to fold’em.” And of course, everyone has to “play the hand they are dealt in life (and in poker).” 2