"Well, there are strategies. Usually, that means you loose haha!" Samuel laughed a bit. "There are a few phazes before we reveal our cards and determine who will win or loose. The buy in, before you look at your cards you pay one chip to the "Pile". Then there is "the raise" if you are confident in your hands, you can bet mutliple chips. We continue raising our bet until either both of us are satisfied with our hands, or until somebody folds. Basically it means you quit rather than risk loosing more chips. Then after those steps, we compare hands. Winner takes the pile."

Samuel explains looking at a 3, and a 7 in his hand. He only had a 2 pair but you just admited to having nothing so, he placed an extra chip in the pile. "Now i just raised. Either you give up and i win no matter what is in our hands, or you place a chip an we continue. This part is where strategy comes in. Sometimes you can lie, and scare the other person into giving up, even though they had the better hand."