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Please bear with this question in its simplicity. I'm very familiar with the progression of blackjack against the dealers, but I wanted to know how poker works in the casinos.
Over here we don't play against each other...only against the dealer. Now in poker I'm assuming both you and the dealer draw the required amount of cards, but what happens when neither of you have anything decent to play with (e.g. there is not even a pair)? I know a strategy with poker is the betting strategy, but against the dealer this surely can't be possible can it? I'm experienced with general poker play (Texas Hold 'Em etc), but have no experience at the casinos.
Thanks for the help with my previous topic.

Over where?

You said "over here we don't play against other players." Um...other country I assume? You will find games like Caribbean Stud, 3 card poker, and varieties of such games where you play against a dealer. These games were invented by way of computer simulations and designed so that advantage play generally does not exist. If you are talking about Texas-Hold em, betting strategy is different than that of blackjack, only because betting strategy in Hold-em style games is there for the sole purpose of getting your opponent to MAKE A DECISION to fold. Whereas, in casino type poker games the dealer has no decision on what to do, so you can't really bluff or bully the dealer with a chip stack and so forth.