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
It must not spring away from the upper packet at all,
It must not spring away from the upper packet at all, but should slip along, up, and over in one continuous movement. Of course, in performing this shift at the card table the right hand is brought over the deck just at the moment of action, and the operation may be greatly facilitated by allowing the under packet to spring very lightly against the right palm but the finished performer will use the right hand only as a cover, and it will take no part at all in the action. We presume that the larger, or the longer the hand, the easier it will be for a beginner to accomplish this shift, but a very small hand can perform the action when the knack is once acquired.
The amateur who does not wish to spend the time necessary
The amateur who does not wish to spend the time necessary to perfect himself in this very difficult one-handed shift, may obtain nearly the same result by adopting the following method, which is performed with both hands and is very much easier ERDNASE SHIFT. Two Hands.Hold the deck in the left hand as described in the one-hand shift. except that the first finger is curled up against the bottom and the third finger is held against the side.