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
The shift has yet to be invented that can be executed
The shift has yet to be invented that can be executed by a movement appearing as coincident card-table routine or that can be executed with the hands held stationary and not show that some manoeuver has taken place, however cleverly it may be performed. Nevertheless upon occasion it must be employed, and the resourceful professional failing to improve the method changes the moment and by this expedient overcomes the principal obstacle in the way of accomplishing the action unobserved. This subterfuge is explained in our treatment of the subject, The Player Without an Ally, under the distinctive heading, Shifting the Cut.
The first shift described is executed with both hands
The first shift described is executed with both hands and is a great favorite. It is probably the oldest and best in general use. TWO-HANDED SHIFT.Hold