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
Then the running cut is continued, leaving the palmed
Then the running cut is continued, leaving the palmed cards on the bottom. Another method is to palm in the left hand face to palm. The cut is made with the right hand, and then the deck placed in the left on the palmed cards, the replacing appearing as a square up.
But this plan is risky, as there is little excuse for
But this plan is risky, as there is little excuse for squaring upon another's deal. If a one handed fancy cut is made with the right hand, and the cards left somewhat scattered, they may be with more propriety, taken up into both hands and squared. A third way, and the most generally employed, is for the right hand holding the palmed cards back to palm to make a cut by the ends, and then deposit the palmed cards on the packet that was under, when picking it up to put in place.