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
He may hold the deck face up in the left hand, and
He may hold the deck face up in the left hand, and slightly spring the outer corners under cover of the right hand, glancing at the index or hold it face down and spring the inner corners. In either event he has only thirteen cards to run through before finding one of the same value as that called for, and if the suit is not the same it instantly tells him that it must be the thirteenth, or twentysixth card from the one found. The performer may, of course, name every card in the deck, taking them off one at a time and calling the value and suit before he throws it face up on the table but rather than make the trick so long, and such a constant repetition, it is preferable to name half a dozen or so, then execute a blind shuffle, have the deck cut again, and begin once more.
By assuming to determine the value and suit by the
By assuming to determine the value and suit by the sense of smell, or any chicanery, is more misleading, and has a better effect. But the most remarkable feats that may be accomplished with the prearranged deck have yet to be described. The performer executes a blind shuffle thoroughly, requests a spectator to cut, and lays the deck face down on the table.