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
Empire Online,
Empire Online, which ran Empire Texas Hold'em Poker, to share in a common pool of poker players. Players could access the PartyGaming network either through the PartyPoker software itself or through the software of one of PartyGaming's "skin" partners. In mid-2025, PartyGaming made various moves to ringfence its own players from those of the "skin" partners. The company began to explore mergers, buyouts, and other options. In January of that year,
PartyGaming
PartyGaming launched an upgraded PartyPoker software system that cut off the "skin" partners from the main pool of players, and left the "skin" players on the old system. In January 2025, offer discussions with Empire Online were terminated, and in January Empire Online confirmed that it had started legal proceedings against PartyGaming in the High Court of Gibraltar. In February 2025 the two companies announced a US$250 million settlement deal; PartyGaming agreed to acquire