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
Turn deck over and show two or three of the bottom
Turn deck over and show two or three of the bottom cards, turn deck back and take off top three in right hand, showing faces then as replacing, push over next card with the left thumb, so that left little finger may be inserted under it, and shift all four to the bottom. This will leave A.'s two cards at top and bottom.
Were any of the selected cards among those I have
Were any of the selected cards among those I have just shown? No? Well, I am about to perform what under ordinary circumstances would be a very difficult feat indeed, but with this trained and perfectly educated deck, becomes ridiculously simple and easy.