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
In short, the professional player must never slop over.
In short, the professional player must never slop over. One single display of dexterity and his usefulness is past in that particular company, and the reputation is liable to precede him in many another. Greatest Single Accomplishment If requested to determine from what single artifice the greatest advantage is derived we would unhesitatingly decide in favor of bottom dealing. But skill in that respect would be useless without knowledge of the bottom cards, and to retain them necessitates the ability to blind shuffle.
Again, the bottom cards may be lost by the cut, hence
Again, the bottom cards may be lost by the cut, hence the necessity of blind cutting. Proficiency in palming often takes the place of an ally to blind cut, but palming in itself is much more difficult to acquire than blind cutting, and is practiced only when the player is alone, and after other ruses, which are less risky, have proven unsuccessful. Hence it will be seen that proficiency in one artifice does not finish the education of the professional card player, and almost every ruse in the game is more or less dependent upon another one.