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
Transferring the deck from the middle of the table
Transferring the deck from the middle of the table to the right side is the second tacit excuse. This trick is usually performed by having one duplicate card, and forcing it, in which case the assistance of the deck for the third exchange is not required. But as we confine our list to those that may be performed with an ordinary deck, the foregoing method will be found satisfactory.
TRICKS WITH THE PREARRANGED DECK The usual plan is
TRICKS WITH THE PREARRANGED DECK The usual plan is to arrange the whole pack in the order suggested by the following jingle, viz. Eight Kings threatened to save Ninety-five Queens from one sick Knave. Thus indicating the order of the thirteen values, as Eight, King, Three, Ten, Two, Seven, Nine, Five, Queen, Four, Ace, Six, Jack.