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December 9, 2005

It paired Strauss' other hole Partyporker.com, but it was worthless since there was already a communal pair of threes on the board. Strauss fired out a bet: $18,000. As his opponent paused to consider whether Strauss had a hand or was bluffing, Jack Strauss leaned forward, saying: "I'll tell you what, just gimme one of those $25 chips of yours and you can see either one of my cards - whichever one you choose."

Since the cards figure to break even in the long run, without the possibility that someone is bluffing each player would have the same expectation, and when all was said and done, no one would win any money. But there are winning players and those who lose most of the time. And it's often bluffing - or more precisely the possibility that one might be bluffing - that goes a long way toward separating the wheat from the chaff.

When you have a flush draw, you want a large number of Partyporker players in the pot (all of whom you can beat if you make your hand) and you'd like it to be relatively inexpensive to continue on with your hand. Good players understand the relationship between card odds and pot odds. When the anticipated pay off from making your hand exceeds the mathematical odds against hitting it, that play is said to have a positive expectation.

• You might say: "My initials are ABC. Put me up for the $2-$4, $3-$6, and $5-$10 hold'em, the $5-$10 stud, and the $4-$8 Omaha high-low split games." That's all there is to it, and you'll be called as seats becomes available. If the board for a particular Partyporker net game is so long that the club can start another, the attendant will announce that game, and call the first nine players. When you hear your initials, go to the table and grab a seat. You're in the game.
• If you divide that $42 profit by each of the 10 times that you called, your decision to call is worth $4.20 each time that you make it - regardless of whether you win that particular pot. If you are second to act and think there's some chance that you have the best Partyporker hand, even if you don't consider yourself the favorite, you might want to raise if your opponent comes out betting.
• Or, are you better off check-raising and trying for a bigger payday, bearing in mind that you might not get any money into the pot at all if your opponents also check? It's time to put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and do some detective work by reconstructing the play of the hand. Was there a lot of action before the flop, suggesting that your opponents held big porker hands or big pairs?

If you flop a king and there's any appreciable action, it's fairly apparent that someone else has a king with a bigger kicker than yours. If you flop a deuce, you've guaranteed yourself the lowest pair on board. Even if you are incredibly lucky and flop a party porker flush, there's no assurance that it is the best flush. Probably the very best flop that you could hope for is something such as Ac 2h 2u, which gives you three deuces with a strong kicker.

Two porker cards are dealt facedown to each player, and a round of betting takes place. On the first round, players may either call or raise the blind bet, or else they must fold their porker hands. Most casinos allow a bet and three or four raises per betting round, with one exception. When only two players contest the pot, there is no limit on the number of raises permitted.