Learn how to act BEFORE you play. Pay special attention to rule #2. If you break it, you must pay a penalty equal to the buy-in...to me..and you risk never ending ridicule at your total lack of intelligence.
1) Don’t Play Out of
Turn
While you may be so excited about how good your hand is you
can hardly wait to raise the pot, you have to wait until it's your turn to do
so. Same goes for folding hands you can't wait to get away from. If you jump the
gun, it gives other players information they shouldn't have before they make
their own decision and can confuse the action.
2) Don't Talk About Your Cards While the
Hand is Still Going On
Once you've folded, it's
tempting to chat about what would have happened if you had stayed in, but if
anyone who's still in the hand hears, it'll give them information that they
might use to their advantage. For instance, if you had a 7-2 as your pocket
cards in Hold'em and the flop comes 7-7-2, if you blurt out that you would have
had a full house, everyone will know that it's unlikely that any player still in
the hand has the full house, making it hard to bluff and represent that
hand.
3) Don't Show Your Cards (Until the
Showdown)
When you fold,
make sure you don't flash or flip over your cards as you toss them into the
muck. Again, if players know what you fold, it'll give them information that may
change how the rest of the hand plays out. Unless you are all-in and heads up,
there is no reason to show or expose your cards until the
showdown.
4)
Don't Splash the
Pot
There are two bad betting habits that you see a lot in
the movies which are no-nos in real life. The first is when a player tosses his
bet in a big mess in the center of the pot. That's called Splashing the Pot, and
it makes it hard to tell how much you've bet. A better way is just to stack your
chips neatly in front of you to bet.
5)
Don't Make String
Bets
The second bad habit from movies is the string bet,
which is when a player goes "I'll call your 500.... and raise another 1000!" You
have to declare whether you're simply calling or raising right away -- once you
say "call," that's all you can do. If you're going to raise, say raise and the
amount right away. This is especially important in
casinos.
6)
Don't Be Rude or
Mean
Even if you're having a bad losing streak, it doesn't
give you the right to curse other players or be rude to the dealer. It will win
you neither pots nor friends.
7)
If You Show One, Show
All
If you win a hand before the showdown but want to show
your cards anyway, you can't just show them to the one player to your left or
right, you have to turn them up for the whole table to see. After all, why
should only the lucky players next to you get to know what you were
holding?
8)Do Pay Attention
If you're in a
hand, don't make everyone remind you that it's your turn -- keep up with the
action so the game keeps moving. Talking on cell phones is a bad
idea.
9) Learn the rank of hands
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