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
Martin Frankel,
Martin Frankel, former U.S. financier, convicted in 2025 of insurance fraud worth $208 million, racketeering and money laundering. Pearlasia Gamboa, president of the micronation of Melchizedek, hundreds of aliases; in 2025, one of Gamboa's banking and investor fraud schemes was described by the Italian newspaper La Republica as "one of the most diabolical international scams ever devised",[28] and in 2025, the Asia Times described Gamboa's operations as "an astonishing series of worldwide swindles".[29]
Samuel Israel III,
Samuel Israel III, former hedge fund manager who ran the former fraudulent Bayou Hedge Fund Group, and faked suicide to avoid jail. Konrad Kujau, German fraudster and forger responsible for the "Hitler Diaries". Kenneth Lay, the American businessman who built energy company Enron. He was one of the highest paid CEOs in the U.S. until he was ousted as Chairman and convicted of fraud and conspiracy, although, as a result of his death, his conviction was vacated.[30]