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
When the single card palm-shift is acquired, the rest
When the single card palm-shift is acquired, the rest will come easily. THE BLIND SHUFFLE FOR SECURING SELECTED CARD. Hold the deck across the left hand and when selected card is inserted, form break over it with left little finger close to side corner.
Now seize the deck by the ends from above with the
Now seize the deck by the ends from above with the right thumb and second finger, and close to right side corners the right thumb taking up the break at the end and with the left thumb and fingers turn the deck down on its side into the left palm in the position given for blind-shuffling, the right hand remaining stationary, the thumb and finger being the pivots, as it were, allowing the deck to turn, and the right thumb still holding the break. The action appears quite natural, and enables the thumb to hold the break without moving. Immediately begin the shuffle.