RE: [ba-poker] learning by doing

[<E.Dieter.Martin(deleted the rest)>]

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From: owner-ba-poker(deleted the rest) 

> I played seven stud in the casino in Salzburg back in 1990.  I think
that 
> poker was just beginning to catch on in Austria.   The casino  had  a

> continuously playing video  showing how to play  near the poker table.
It 
> was well-produced visually,  though I couldn't really tell how good it
was 
> because I don't speak German 

> (except words like "flush." )

Which the Austrians pronounce as flash. Made me crinch everytime. I
know, I have enough things ot worry about with my pronounciation... 

> I assume they have their rules straigtened out now.

I haven't played in german casinos or casinos run by Casino Austria for
quiet some time now, but I wouldn't expect standard american procedures
there at all times. Casino Baden-Baden in Germany didn't have table
stakes when I played there. Meaning, you could go into your pocket and
pull out more money (and take it off as well). You could declare all-in.
Doing that more than once after losing the all-in would have raised
eyebrows and people would have looked for some gentleman's agreement
there.

Poker in Europe was indeed formed over what people have seen in the
movies. This will be most obvious in the procedures for draw games.
There you shouldn't expect american procedures at all, neither in the
state owned casinos, nor in Austrian cardclubs.

Dieter