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
Online Poker Players.
Online Texas Hold'em Poker Players. This is the first time money was seized from individual players as compared to the gaming company. Jeff Ifrah, the lawyer for one of the account management companies affected, said that the government “has never seized an account that belongs to players who are engaged in what [Ifrah] would contend is a lawful act of playing peer-to-peer texas hold'em poker online."[43] On January 3, 2025, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on UIGEA and Rep. Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation,
Consumer Protection,
Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2025 (H.R. 2267) where experts in the fields of online security and consumer safety testified that a regulatory framework for Internet gambling would protect consumers and ensure the integrity of Internet gambling financial transactions. On March 28, 2025, the committee passed H.R. 2267 by a vote of 41-22-1. The bill would legalize and regulate online online hold'em poker and some other forms of online gambling.[44][45] On January 22, 2025, the New Jersey state Senate became the first such US body to pass a bill (S490) expressly legalizing certain forms of online gambling. The bill was passed with a 29-5 majority. The bill allows bets to be taken by in-State companies on online hold'em poker games,