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
If the dealer has an ally the two may work together
If the dealer has an ally the two may work together in gathering up the cards, and the possibilities are doubled. When the desired cards are run down to the bottom the dealer could continue the shuffle and run up a top stock, but the time required for the two operations would be too long. The usual practice is to deal from the bottom.
Fifteen or twenty seconds is plenty of time to execute
Fifteen or twenty seconds is plenty of time to execute a three-card cull shuffle, and it can be done in half the time THE ERDNASE SYSTEM OF PALMING The art of card palming can be brought to a degree of perfection that borders on the wonderful. It is very simple to place one or several cards in the palm and conceal them by partly closing and turning the palm downward, or inward but it is entirely another matter to palm them from the deck in such a manner that the most critical observer would not even suspect, let alone detect, the action. The methods following were originated by us, and we believe them to be the most rapid and subtle ever devised.