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
They can be purchased from the dealers in club-room
They can be purchased from the dealers in club-room articles, and, anyway, the expert professional disdains their assistance. They are cumbersome, unnecessary, and a constant menace to his reputation. Prepared Cards The subject of prepared cards is almost as foreign to the main purpose of this work as the preceding one of hold outs, but a cursory review of the commoner kinds and their uses may not be out of place.
Marked cards generally known as readers, can be
Marked cards generally known as readers, can be distinguished by the backs as readily as by the faces when the key is known. Printed cards are manufactured, but these are rarely used by professionals. The designs are not the same as those now of standard make, and consequently would be difficult to introduce.