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
95, then completing the ruffle.
95, then completing the ruffle. The springing is performed at such a pace that the spectator can recognize but one card, which is more fully exposed a01641.gif FIG 95 by the momentary lull in the springing, and at this point the performer forms and holds a break with end of left second finger. At the end of the first ruffle ask if card has been noted, and if not repeat the action, but of course hesitating at some other point. B. Hold the deck lengthwise in the right hand, face to palm, between second joint of thumb and ends of fingers.
Bend finger end downwards and allow ends to escape
Bend finger end downwards and allow ends to escape rapidly, springing them into the left hand in the usual manner of the flourish. Hesitate, or stop the springing for an instant, at any stage of the operation see Fig. 96, and the only card that the performer can notice or fairly distinguish will be the probable selection of the spectator.