Mat Lessinger’s The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker

Mat Lessinger’s The Book of Bluffs: How to Bluff and Win at Poker picks up where Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells leaves off, teaching players how to bluff, how to utilize a bluff to make their opponents fold, and how to prevent being bluffed. Lessinger’s opening chapters provide background material: one discusses when one…

Poker Rules

In button games, a non-playing dealer normally does the actual dealing. A round disk called the button is used to indicate which player has the dealer position . The player with the button is last to receive cards on the initial deal and has the right of last action after the first betting round. The…

Texas Hold’em Rules

Texas Hold’em is far and away the most popular version of poker games. Featured in such televised events as the World Poker Tour (WPT) and canonized in the poker film “Rounders”, to many, Hold’em is the only game to play. Basic Rules for Texas Hold’em The game concept itself is pretty simple. Each player is dealt…

Seven Card Stud Rules

Stud was, by far, the most popular form of poker until the Hold’em boom of recent years. Almost all casinos have stud games going at all times, and, since it is studied much less than Hold’em, these games are very profitable. Seven Card Stud is played similar to traditional poker games, such as draw, as…