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
Then the four Aces are laid out, and with a fine pen
Then the four Aces are laid out, and with a fine pen the first point located is shortened barely enough to notice. The point is white and the background red or blue, the color of the ink used and the slightest shortening of a single point or the obliteration of a single dot on a card, is undetectable unless it is known. The four Aces are treated in this manner then turned end for end, and the operation repeated.
Then the Kings are doctored, the second point located
Then the Kings are doctored, the second point located being shortened in this instance. Then the four Queens at the third point, and so on throughout the deck for the twelve values the absence of any mark denoting the Deuce. Now the suits are marked.