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
To go south with extra cards, i.
To go south with extra cards, i. e., to drop them in the lap, or conceal them any place about the person, or hold them palmed during the play, or even to throw them on the discard heap when making his own discard, is inartistic, and risky, and unworthy of any but a neophite or a bungler. Possibly the most closely watched procedure, and the easiest to observe in a poker game, is the number of cards that are discarded and where there is the least suspicion, discarding too many in the ordinary way is surely detected.
When playing poker the expert will hold too many only
When playing poker the expert will hold too many only on his own deal, and then only before the draw. He can palm and replace the extra card or cards when about to deal the draw. In Cribbage the non-dealer may hold out one or two cards, and after the crib is laid out, replace the extra card when cutting for the turn-up.