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
Holding Out for the Cut.To
Holding Out for the Cut.To hold out in a card game is the riskiest and most dangerous form of taking advantage that a player may attempt, but it can be, and is, successfully practiced when cleverly performed and the player is not suspected. But the only hold out that we consider really safe is made by the dealer, and but for the moment of cutting. After a blind shuffle, with the desired cards on the bottom, the dealer palms in the left and passes the deck with the right to be cut.
After the cut he picks up the deck with the right hand
After the cut he picks up the deck with the right hand and replaces the palmed cards when squaring up for the deal. Of course, this necessitates a perfect knowledge of palming and replacing, but both actions then become possible in any kind of company, if the player is not suspected. Holding out for the cut is incomparably less risky than holding out on another's deal as the deck is never subject to being handled or counted, and the palmed cards remain in the dealer's possession but for the moment.