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
This was the era of high living and low morals. Gamblers,
This was the era of high living and low morals. Gamblers, bootleggers and racketeers were glorified, accepted socially and paid homage to by the millions of Americans who believed that Prohibition was a joke. Anyone who made the newspaper headlines was looked up to. The top bootleggers and mobsters were on the same celebrity scale as Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight champion, or Babe Ruth, the Home Run King, and they mingled with the outstanding citizens of that era.
In those days many were prouder to shake hands with Arnold
In those days many were prouder to shake hands with Arnold Rothstein, America's kingpin gambler, or Al Capone, the Chicago racket boss, than with Calvin Coolidge, the President of the United States.