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How to
Play Hold Em
| The
rules are easy. It's the playing that's complicated. Because poker isn't really a game of cards. It's a game of situations. And as top professional player Howard Lederer says, "There is no `right way' to play poker." So please bear that in mind, over the coming days, because I'm sure I'll demonstrate many of the infinite number of wrong ways there are to play poker. It's a very easy game to make mistakes in, and we all do it. Perhaps one of the greatest skills in poker is limiting the number of mistakes you make. There is an old expression in poker - usually said with a smirk, as the card shark lays down his unbeatable hand: Read 'em and weep. May your tears - at my expense - be tears of laughter. First, the basics: There can be up to ten players at the table. One of them has a round disk in front of him called the Button, which usually has a `D' on it.' This designates that player as "the dealer." (He isn't really, though - there's a paid employee of the casino who deals the cards. And takes tips from winning players.) |