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
In a later passage he gives the neophyte a few hints
In a later passage he gives the neophyte a few hints as to the most opportune moment for carrying out the fraud with success. Employed under such conditions it is obvious that card manipulation becomes a very fine art indeed, the difficulties under which the professor labours tending proportionately to raise the standard of excellence. In view of this presumedly successful struggle with such difficulties, we peruse with the keener interest Mr.
Erdnase's instructions.
Erdnase's instructions. THE ERDNASE SHIFT ONE HAND The first of the passes which Mr. Erdnase describes is the good old-fashioned two-handed one, familiar to all magicians but the one I am about to discuss is a little device of his own, which he considers an improvement upon it. He tells us that it is the outcome of persistent effort to devise a shift that may be employed with the greatest probability of success at the card table.