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
They are the four Queens?
They are the four Queens? Kindly place them on the deck. Extend deck in left hand and when Queens are placed on top secretly place palmed cards on top of them. Now, as our table is supposed to be the scene of this grand function, we shall station those four particularly exclusive ladies at different points in the room lay out the first three top cards face down, giving her majesty the Queen of hesitate and carelessly turn Queen face up apparently to see the suit, and allow the company to see it also, then name the suit, the post of honor near the entrance.
Lay first Queen on the table and make a shift, holding
Lay first Queen on the table and make a shift, holding location of other three Queens. Now, as would naturally be the case, we shall besiege these high strung patrician ladies with attentions from the lower orders, which the rest of the deck represents, by first surrounding her majesty on the right with three cards from the top lay three cards on first table card, and to show no partiality we shall cut the deck haphazard, and plague our second liege lady with three of the first presumptuous plebeians we may find there cut off small packet and place three cards on second table card, and though the proximity or even notice of any of these common persons are equally abhorrent to our grand dames we shall treat them all alike by again cutting and surrounding her majesty at the entrance with three more rank outsiders this time cut to location of shift, and place the three Queens on table Queen, and permit three more from the bottom who have been least crowding and therefore more deserving to proffer their homage to the other fair one. Lay three bottom cards on the other table card.