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
Have a card selected by spectator on the left. Take
Have a card selected by spectator on the left. Take it from him with the right hand, and when turning to spectator on the right, make Top Change, and request second spectator to hold the card between his two palms which will prevent him from looking at it. Now palm top card in right hand and give deck to first spectator to hold. Step towards table, getting glimpse of palmed card, and pick up the hat with right hand, fingers well inside, thumb across rim, calling attention to the fact that it is empty, and showing the inside.
Now turn the rim down and place the hat again upon
Now turn the rim down and place the hat again upon the table, working the palmed card up along the inside with the fingers, and releasing it as the hat is laid down. Care must be taken to leave no crimp in the card. Now take deck from first spectator, request second spectator to hold it in the hand that happens to be uppermost.