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
Now, in raising the right hand again, still in the
Now, in raising the right hand again, still in the ordinary manner, seize the lower packet that was first left in the left hand between the right third finger and thumb, bringing it up with the rest of the cards, the packet that was dropped from the top now falling against the left fingers, concealing the fact that the under packet is withdrawn. See Fig. 93. Now, with the left fingers tilt the packet over against the left thumb, and drop another a01581.gif FIG 93 small packet from the top of the right hand portion into the left hand between its packet and the fingers, still with the usual movement for shuffling.
The left thumb now tilts the packet back on the other,
The left thumb now tilts the packet back on the other, and the right hand makes its customary movement downward, but this time drops the lower packet that is held between the third finger and thumb, by simply releasing the pressure of the third finger. Now the left hand portion is again tilted against the thumb, the right hand dropping another packet from the top, then the left hand packet is tilted back, and the right hand throws the balance On top. This process leaves the order the same, the deck having received but a simple cut.