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
But, in any event, shifting is much more noticeable
But, in any event, shifting is much more noticeable than palming for the cut. Dealing Too Many.A favorable and perhaps the most generally used advantage is in the dealer giving himself one or two extra cards on the last round.
The quantity is not noticeable when lying on the table,
The quantity is not noticeable when lying on the table, and as the extra cards are taken on the last round there is little time for inspection. The dealer immediately picks them up with the left hand as the deck is deposited on the table by the right. The selection is made and the discard palmed and gotten rid of as described under headline, Skinning the Hand.