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Even the most serious
players sometimes choose to introduce special hand-values that have
no place in poker tradition- dogs, cats or tigers, skeet’s, skip
straights, four flushes, and so on. The purpose is to enliven the
game by providing more combinations to which even a conservative
player may choose to draw.
These hands are played chiefly in men's clubs and in home games
among more or less serious players. They do not hurt the game if
a player can bring himself to remember that all poker values are
relative and that you stand to win if you play only good hands and
to lose if you play bad hands.
The traditional gambler who bet his pile on a pair of sevens against
one opponent on a Mississippi steamboat was no worse off than the
club player who bets his pile on a little dog or the stud player
who bets on ace-high. Whatever the form of poker, the pot is usually
won by the hand that figures to be better than anyone else's, whether
that hand is ace-king-high or four-of-a-kind.
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