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 hand shuffle is almost ideal for stocking and
The hand shuffle is almost ideal for stocking and culling, and the curious or interested reader may learn how a perfect knowledge is maintained of the whereabouts of any particular cards, and how they are collected or separated, or placed in any desired positions, while the deck is being shuffled apparently without heed or design. Primary Accomplishments The first acquirement of the professional player is proficiency at blind shuffling and cutting. Perfection in performing the blind shuffle, whether the old-fashioned hand shuffle or the riffle supplemented by a thorough knowledge of blind cutting, makes it impossible for the smartest card handler living to determine whether the procedure is true or blind.
This ability once acquired gives the expert ease and
This ability once acquired gives the expert ease and assurance in any kind of company, and enables him to lull into a state of absolute serenity the minds of many players who may be naturally suspicious. Nothing so completely satisfies the average card player as a belief that the deck has been thoroughly shuffled and genuinely cut. Possibilities of the Blind.