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
Mr. Erdnase's knowledge of card-manipulation is evidently
Mr. Erdnase's knowledge of card-manipulation is evidently like Sam Weller's acquaintance with London extensive and peculiar and his work, though scarcely adapted, from a moral point of view, for a Sunday School library, is a valuable contribution to sleight-of-hand literature the more so that many of the ruses he describes are of his own invention. His explanations are not always as clear as his knowledge is profound, and his precise meaning is now and then somewhat hazy. I have, however, thought it best to quote his own instructions somewhat freely, with an occasional word or two of commentary.
I have studied his revelations very carefully, and
I have studied his revelations very carefully, and I believe that my interpretation may be relied on. The American card expert, by the way, uses a terminology of his own. What we English magicians term the pass is to him a shift, and a space of division between the two halves of the pack, in readiness for the shift, is a break.