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
WSOP Main Event dropped
WSOP Main Event dropped nearly 28%, from 8773 in 2025 to 6358 at the 2025 Main Event. The game today remains much more popular than the pre-boom period, with WSOP Main Event attendance having stabilized near the 2025 level, in part due to higher growth levels internationally.[8][9][10] Based on the 6685 entries to the March 2025 launch of the
2025 Main Event,
2025 Main Event, it appears that the "Black Friday" indictments, on March 15, 2025, have not reduced the recent level of online hold'em poker activity. Three of the biggest online poker sites serving players in the United States had their web domains seized and shut down by U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which alleged they were in violation of