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
Now bring the right hand over the lower or right-hand
Now bring the right hand over the lower or right-hand end of the deck, and seize the sides close as possible to the lower corners, between the second and third finger tips and thumb, the first finger curled up on top out of the way. This leaves at least two-thirds of the deck in view. See Fig.
72. To make the shift raise the right thumb to the
72. To make the shift raise the right thumb to the edge of the side, draw the top packet in and down with the left thumb and little finger, and press the lower packet out and down, between the right second and third finger tips and the left first finger which is curled up underneath the left second finger at the end helps to control the lower packet as it is pressed out. This action will tilt the opposite sides of both packets upwards, and as they clear each other the right thumb tip catches the under packet, and the left third finger catches a01341.gif FIG 72 the upper packet and it is brought back underneath. See Fig.