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 performer passes on to a more obliging spectator
The performer passes on to a more obliging spectator and forces the particular card, and completes the trick in contemplation. Then the first card drawn is returned to the deck and used in some trick that does not require a prior knowledge. If two or three cards are noted and located together the force becomes simpler, as a greater liberty may be allowed in the selection and, of course, the order of the several cards enables the performer to determine the particular card as it is selected.
PALMING In addition to the methods given in the first
PALMING In addition to the methods given in the first part of our site, which we consider the best for general purposes. we shall describe several processes that may be employed advantageously under special circumstances. The top cards may be palmed apparently without touching the deck in the following manner Hold the deck across the left palm, the little finger well inserted under the cards to be palmed, the first, second and third fingers holding the cards firmly in place.