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 difficulty in this change is getting the
The only difficulty in this change is getting the card fairly back under the deck with the left fingers. The Palm Change.In this process an entirely different subterfuge is employed, and it is probably the most ingenious ever devised for the purpose.
The two cards to be exchanged are held in the right
The two cards to be exchanged are held in the right hand by the ends between the second and third fingertips and the thumb, and close together, so that when shown to the company they appear as one. The right hand is now turned palm down and the left hand apparently a01471.gif FIG 82 takes the card that was exposed, laying it on the table, but in reality takes the second card, leaving the other one palmed in the right hand. This is done by seizing both cards between the left thumb and second and third fingers, and drawing out the upper one with the thumb and pressing the lower one up into the right palm with the left fingers as the top one is drawn off.