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Players seldom shuffle on less suspenseful lowball draws, such as one-card to a nine. In highhand-wins
draw poker, there's a very great chance that any player prolonging the suspense by
shuffling his cards is drawing to a straight or a flush (or even a straight flush). Sometimes you'll
find seven-stud players shuffling their three hole cards before looking at their seventh (final)
card. As you'd expect, among weak players, this generally means they must improve their hand
to win.
BEST STRATEGY: Use logic. Suppose you're playing jacks-or-better-to open draw poker.
You open with a pair of aces. An opponent calls. You draw three; he draws one. You look at
your hand and see three aces.
Normally you'd be tempted to bet in this situation, because if your opponent was drawing to two
pair and it didn't help (which is likely to happen 11 out of 12 times), he'd probably call you
anyway. However, when that opponent is shuffling, you should figure that there's a very good
chance he's drawing to a straight or a flush, and you should therefore check rather than bet. If
the game is lowball and an opponent draws one, shuffles, then bets, you should not raise with a
smooth seven (such as 7-4-3-2-A), even though you might have raised had he not shuffled.
Photo 13:
The woman is shuffling her cards before she looks. She slides the top card off ...
Photo 14:
... and puts it on the bottom, then repeats the process.
IV. Nervousness
Genuine nervousness is hard to fake. Usually you should interpret it for what it means. Fine, but
what does it mean? If a poker player seems nervous, is it because he has a strong hand or
because he's bluffing?
Many people suspect that players show more nervousness when they're bluffing. After all,
there's a great deal of strain involved when you're bluffing and you know everyone's attention is
focused on you. Some players are so scared when they bluff that they scarcely breathe.
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