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
37. Draw the deck out about half way from under the
37. Draw the deck out about half way from under the right hand, and release the left hand entirely. See Fig. 38. Then the right drops the deck on the table to be cut.
After the hands are in the first position the whole
After the hands are in the first position the whole process does not occupy half a second. The deck should be kept in view as much as possible, and the right first finger is curled up on top for that purpose until the instant the palm is performed. The action of drawing the deck into view when the cards are palmed is made a part of the whole movement.