More often than not, small stakes poker has the major advantage that you can play for leisure and profit at the same time, especially since you are very likely to find a lot of unskilled players and fish. In fact, because the small stakes games constitute the place where most of the poker players start ...

Many gambling historians make the error of over-emphasizing on the idea that in the early days, cheating was a frequently encountered practice. What is even more confusing – if not downright disturbing – is that some of the authors promote the idea that the casinos or poker establishments of that period would even allow players ...