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
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See Fig. 47. There is little or no difficulty in performing this perfectly, and the deal can be carried on without a sign to indicate the manoeuver. The palmed cards will be crimped from their position and the warmth of the hand. The crimp must be taken out when squaring up.
TO HOLD THE LOCATION OF CUT WHILE DEALING The object
TO HOLD THE LOCATION OF CUT WHILE DEALING The object of holding the location of the cut is so that a shift may be made at that point when the first deal has been completed. This will bring the original bottom cards to that position again, from which they may be dealt during the second deal, and the most opportune moment for the shift is immediately after the first deal, as the deck is deposited on the table. When the cut is made, pick up the packet that was under, by the sides, near end, between second and third fingers and thumb of right hand, and lay it on top of packet cut-off, so that the then under packet forms a jog or protrudes about quarter of an inch toward the right wrist.