House RulesĪs you read this you'll see a lot of 'Some poker rooms do this, some do that,' etc. If your interest is strictly tournaments, after reading about House Rules, you can probably skip to the Misc. The first few sections after the House Rules section, applies primarly to cash games. The intended audience of this article is a more casual player who may become familiar with some of these details, and return here to review some of the questions that may have popped up after their first experience. A true student of the game would immerse himself in these details before going to a poker room. This article is probably a lot longer than it needs to be. Hopefully, this article will answer your questions so you can go to a poker room with confidence. Asking questions at a table in a poker room can be deadly. It assumes that the reader already knows the basics of Texas Hold-Em, but has been too intimidated to go into a casino's poker room.Īsking questions, while seated with friends at a dining room table, is a relatively safe thing to do. This article is about the differences between a poker room and a dining room, and how to avoid being labeled a poker novice.
