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
It is surprising to find among card players, and many
It is surprising to find among card players, and many of them grown gray at the game, the almost universal belief that none but the unsophisticated can be deceived by blind'' shuffling. These gentlemen have to be shown, but that is the last thing likely to happen. The player who believes he cannot be deceived is in great danger.
The knowledge that no one is safe is his best protection.
The knowledge that no one is safe is his best protection. However, the post-graduate in the art is quite conscious of the fact that he himself cannot tell the true from the blind shuffle or cut, when performed by another equally as clever. In fact, sight has absolutely nothing to do with the action, and the expert might perform the work just as well if he were blindfolded. Nevertheless blind shuffling and cutting, as explained by this work, are among the simplest and easiest feats the professional player is required to perform and when the process is understood the necessary skill can be acquired with very little time or effort.