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 formula and figures must be literally at his fingers'
The formula and figures must be literally at his fingers' ends. Most players stick to one or two games, and a little practice at that particular stock makes it as easy as habit. The highest tribute that can be paid to the method is the fact that certain players whom we have instructed, can execute the stock with the greatest facility and yet confess they cannot tell why the particular action produces the result, and they are totally unable to see what becomes of the selected cards until the shuffle is completed.
However, it requires no feat of memory, and a few repetitions
However, it requires no feat of memory, and a few repetitions of the same formula enables one to stock and talk at the same time. Five-Card Stock.For any game in which cards are dealt singly.