Bearings
The things nobody tells you before your first session.
Written by someone who had to learn them the hard way. More is coming — this list will grow.
Before you sit
Why your hold'em table just dealt a PLO hand
Most Noida rooms mix in Omaha and bomb pots on the dealer's call. It's a bigger pot than you signed up for — and you're allowed to be dealt out. Here's how to say so.
Before you sit
Call time, and the one-chip rule
Two bits of table etiquette that cost beginners real money. Both take a minute to understand and neither is written down anywhere in the room.
Money
Is ₹10,000 enough for a night?
What a 100/200 game actually costs you over four hours once rake, tips and the odd rebuy are in — and which table to pick if that's your whole budget.
Before you sit
Table rules, and why they protect you
Angle-shooting, acting out of turn, string bets — the standard procedure that keeps a game fair, and why a strict room is on your side, not against you.
Before you sit
Running it twice, and rabbit hunting
Seeing the cards that would have come, and running an all-in board more than once — what's allowed, and why it's never a house rule.
Money
How rake works
What the room actually takes from a pot, when, and the one situation where it doesn't take anything at all.