Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Two kings, the desired cards, which are placed on top.
Two kings, the desired cards, which are placed on top. The first action is to under-cut about half the deck, then in-jog top card that is, to push one of the kings slightly over the little finger end of the left-hand packet with the left thumb. It is done the instant the under-cut is made, and just before the right hand makes the downward motion to shuffle. Run two less than twice the number of players, which would be eight out-jog, that is, run the next card out over the left first finger by shifting the right hand slightly outward, and shuffle off, which means to shuffle the balance of the right hand packet into the left hand without design.
The left little and first fingers now hold the in and
The left little and first fingers now hold the in and out-jogs. See Fig. 33. The next operation is, Under-cut to out-jog, forming break at in-jog.