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
Catch the projecting corner with the right little fingertip,
Catch the projecting corner with the right little fingertip, pressing the cards firmly against palm under the left thumb, and draw them in toward right thumb,at the same time straightening out the left fingersuntil the under cards lie fairly along the left palm. See Fig. 40. Slightly close left hand with the palmed cards and turn partly over and inward as the right hand lays the deck on the table for the cut.
The entire action of this palm is extremely rapid,
The entire action of this palm is extremely rapid, simple, easy and imperceptible. The only difficulty is in establishing the proper position for the left hand. To get this absolutely exact, palm half a dozen cards in the left hand in the most favorable position for holding and concealing.