Those who are not yet familiar with poker, and in particular those who get there by passing through the blackjack tables, may think that there is a series of manual signals used by players to provide information or make the dealer understand their intentions. A forgivable assumption, God forbid, but from the outset it is …
Victoria Coren Mitchell, the first person to win the European Poker Tour twice, once wrote: “It’s strange that poker players are so superstitious. They spend half their lives patiently explaining that poker is not ‘gambling’, like roulette or the lottery: it is a game of skill, judgment, insight and wisdom. But then they spend the …