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
blind shuffle, or rather riffle, will require considerable
blind shuffle, or rather riffle, will require considerable practice to perform nicely, but it is worth it. Seize the deck with both hands, face down, second and third fingers at one side, thumbs at the opposite side, little fingers at opposite ends. held somewhat under the deck, and first fingers curled in with tips on top.
The second fingers touch each other at middle of side,
The second fingers touch each other at middle of side, and the thumbs touching at opposite side. Each hand occupies identically the same position. Now divide the pack with the thumbs and draw off the upper portion with the right hand place the inner corners of the outer ends together so that the two packets form a sharp angle, but the right hand packet about half an inch further out.