Poker info I
In poker games, two very important concepts are buying in and cards speaking and it is important to know what they refer to.
In poker tournaments, participants are required to make a payment as the entry fee which is called the buy-in. The value of this buy-in contributes to the pot size of the tournament and also part of the charge or rake collected by the casino house as expenses. So, if 50 participants want to play in a tournament, each may have to pay a buy-in of $110 where $100 will contribute to build up the pot and 10% of this amount or $10 is the house rake. So, the prize money for they tournament becomes $5000 while the casino hosting the tournament gets $500 as rake.
The concept of cards speaking can be explained in two situations regarding poker games. So, when a high/low split poker game is being played and no declaration has been made by the players, then the concept of cards speaking means that each player exposes his cards during showdown and the one with the highest hand wins the top half of the pot and the player with the lowest hand wins the bottom half, with the same player with both best high and low hands, scoops the game.
Otherwise in poker games cards speaking can also refer to a casino house rule according to which if a player makes a mistake or a deliberate wrong verbal declaration, it would not be binding on him and his cards will actually determine how he fares in the game. Depending on the house, the casino reserves the right to declare the hand of the player who had made a wrong call as foul. However, cards speaking do not judge the winner of a pot, it only states that in poker games the actual merits of the card ultimately determines a player’s hands and not what he may declare his value as.
