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
The stock must be run up without hurry or hesitation,
The stock must be run up without hurry or hesitation, at the dealer's customary gait. Rapidity is not essential, but smoothness and uniformity are. The break is formed, and the jogs are found, in the usual time necessary for drawing out the under cut.
To go through the whole stock slowly is much better
To go through the whole stock slowly is much better than to change the pace. The four-card stock for five players can be run up in fifteen seconds or less, but there is no reason why much greater time should not be taken. The philosophy of the action may be reasoned out or not, as the student sees fit but in any case to accomplish the stock gracefully and expeditiously he must not stop in the middle of the shuffle to calculate.