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 facts that the card to be produced is on top, and
The facts that the card to be produced is on top, and that a card is pushed over, are concealed. Cards Rising from the Hand.The selected cards are brought to top of deck and the pack is held in the left a01681.gif FIG 98 hand, thumb at one side and lying straight along with tip near end, second third and little fingers at opposite side, and first finger at back.
The cards are pushed up by first finger, the thumb
The cards are pushed up by first finger, the thumb and other fingers being released sufficiently to allow their rising, but retaining their position. See Fig. 98. When the cards are raised to nearly the full length the right hand takes them off.