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
It is almost invariably done quite openly, and in company
It is almost invariably done quite openly, and in company where the attendants and players are in collusion. In most gaming rooms the decks are exchanged every hour or less. Sometimes the players will call for a new deck, but usually the exchange is made at the instance of the management.
When the cold deck is sprung a blind shuffle is
When the cold deck is sprung a blind shuffle is made by the dealer, a blind cut by an ally, and the hands fall in the desired order. Of course an exchange may be made by sleight-of-hand, but the player who can accomplish this feat successfully is generally well versed in the higher orders of card-table artifice, and will dispense with such makeshifts as cold decks or any kind of prepared cards. Confederacy - When two card experts work together their difficulties are greatly lessened.