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
Of course dry fingers may be moistened, or damp ones
Of course dry fingers may be moistened, or damp ones dried, but either operation is objectionable. For superior work the cards should be new, thin, flexible and of best quality. Cheap cards are clumsy and not highly finished.
Cards that have been handled two or three hours become
Cards that have been handled two or three hours become more or less sticky, and the slightest friction is a detriment to perfect manipulation. The finished card expert considers nothing too trivial that in any way contributes to his success, whether in avoiding or allaying suspicion, or in the particular manner of carrying out each detail or in leading up to, or executing, each artifice. Therefore the writer has expended much time and care in illustrating many manoeuvres that at first may seem unimportant, but all of which are essential to the curriculum of artistic card handling.