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
The bridge becomes the crimp.
The bridge becomes the crimp. A false shuffle or cut is described as blind, and the stock does not indicate the pack generally or the remainder after a certain number have been dealt, but means a group of cards culled from the rest, and arranged for fraudulent purposes. A card protruding Slightly beyond the rest, to mark a given point in the pack, is known as a jog an in jog, if it protrudes over the little finger of the left hand, an out jog if over the first finger. That a pack of cards is in America known as a deck, the reader is doubtless already aware.
Mr. Erdnase recognizes only three forms of the pass
Mr. Erdnase recognizes only three forms of the pass good enough to be used for card-sharping purposes, and these he recommends only to be used as a last resort. He tells us, with a touch of sadness The shift has yet to be invented that can be executed by a movement appearing as coincident card-table routine or that can be executed with the hands held stationary and not show that some manoeuvre has taken place, however cleverly it may be performed. Nevertheless upon occasion it must be employed, and the resourceful professional, failing to improve the method, changes the moment and by this expedient overcomes the principal obstacle in the way of accomplishing the action unobserved.