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
A clever bottom dealer will usually employ the riffle,
A clever bottom dealer will usually employ the riffle, as he rarely takes the trouble of running up a hand. His purpose in that respect is sufficiently answered by keeping the desired cards at the bottom. If he has an ally to blind cut, everything goes well, but if playing alone he must either palm the bottom cards for the cut or make a shift afterwards.
The shift is very rarely attempted in any kind of
The shift is very rarely attempted in any kind of knowing company, and it is awkward to make a palm when the riffle is used. The deck must be tilted on its side, and while the movement may pass as an effort at squaring up, it is not quite regular. The hand shuffle avoids the difficulty, as the deck is held naturally in easy position for palming, and not an instant is lost during the operation.