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 tax on the memory is very slight, there being but
The tax on the memory is very slight, there being but thirteen names to commit, and conning them over for half an hour or so should impress their order on the mind permanently. The deck so arranged makes every thirteenth card the same value, and of the next suit in the order of suits every fourth card the same suit, and every second card the other suit of the same color. Cutting does not disturb the order and the top card is always next in the regular order to the bottom, and the performer, secretly noting the bottom card, has the key to the situation.
We shall describe several very startling effects that
We shall describe several very startling effects that may be caused by the employment of the prearranged deck in the hands of a really clever operator. Of course, the prearrangement must be carefully concealed. The performer first blind shuffles, then requests some spectator to cut.