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
process is very much employed by many clever card conjurers
process is very much employed by many clever card conjurers who ought to know better, and we include it only because it is in common use and to suggest its rejection. It consists in pushing small packets alternately from the top and bottom of the portion held in one hand to the bottom and top of the portion held in the other. The deck is held in the left hand and several cards are pushed over by the left thumb into the right hand.
Then the left fingers push several cards from the bottom
Then the left fingers push several cards from the bottom on top of the right hand cards. Then the left thumb again pushes several from the top, but these are received under the right hand portion. The left fingers now push several from the bottom to the top of the right hand portion, and so on until the left hand is empty.