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
This leaves the two desired cards at the bottom.
This leaves the two desired cards at the bottom. The action is a little confusing at first, but when this system of culling is understood it becomes very simple. The first under-cut and shuffle-off, in the foregoing example, has no bearing on the result, but it places the cards to be worked on well down in the deck, and this aids in making the whole shuffle appear regular. To Cull Three Cards, Numbers 7, 5, 9.Under-cut about half deck, in-jog first card and shuffle off.
Undercut to in-jog, run one less than first number,
Undercut to in-jog, run one less than first number, in-jog running one more than second number, out-jog running one less than third number, and throw on top. Two of the desired cards are now at top and bottom of middle packet and the third on top of the deck. Under-cut to out-jog, forming break at in-jog, in-jog top card, run one, throw to break and shuffle off.