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 principal slights employed in card tricks, that
The principal slights employed in card tricks, that are not touched upon in the first part of this site, are known as forcing, changes, transformations, and various methods of locating and producing selected cards. We shall also describe other methods of shifting and palming. We should mention that a shift is termed by the conjurer a pass.
SHIFTS Single Handed Shift.This is known to conjurers
SHIFTS Single Handed Shift.This is known to conjurers as the Charlies Pass, and we presume was invented by the famous magician of that name. Hold the deck in the left hand face down, between the thumb tip at one side and first joints of second and third fingers at opposite side, first joint of little finger at end, and first finger extended at bottom. To make the shift release the lower portion of the deck with the thumb, letting it fall into the palm see Fig.