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 only difference in the foregoing action would be
The only difference in the foregoing action would be to Jog the second card instead of the first when the break is reached, and then under cut to the jog and throw on top, instead of shuffling off. But we consider the left hand work, or bottom palming, far superior to palming from the top, and the several methods given in the first part of the site will be found instantaneous, undetectable, and up to the present unknown and consequently not suspected. FORCING Many of the best card tricks are dependent upon having the company select one or more certain or particular cards, which after being replaced in the deck and shuffled, are reproduced in various ways at some stage of the proceeding.
Compelling the company to select such particular cards,
Compelling the company to select such particular cards, without in the least suspecting the choice is influenced in any manner, is called forcing. It is probably used to a greater extent than any other expedient, excepting the shift. The usual method of forcing is to bring the particular card to the middle of the deck by means of a shift, and hold its location by inserting the little finger at that point. Now the performer, advancing the hands toward the spectator opens the deck slightly fanwise, pushing the cards with the left thumb one under the other into the right palm, the right fingers aiding the operation apparently to enable the spectator to take any card he may wish.