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 left hand instantly draws the under packet out
The left hand instantly draws the under packet out sideways about half way, and the right hand drops it on the table and then places the palmed cards on the deck while picking it up. This method of palming is excellent after the position secured, and under the circumstances just described it is better to take this position than to make the palm immediately after the hand is skinned. If it is desired to palm in the left hand, the discard is retained and the others brought to the top while skinning.
Then one of the bottom palms described must be employed.
Then one of the bottom palms described must be employed. THE PLAYER WITHOUT AN ALLY. It is the general belief that it takes two to obtain any advantage in a card game with knowing playersthe dealer and the man who cuts. That this is generally true cannot be denied, but it is by no means always so.