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
It is vastly superior for this purpose, because the
It is vastly superior for this purpose, because the action takes place before the right hand seizes the deck, and just as it is about to do so, thereby covering naturally and actually performing the work before the action is anticipated. It is extremely rapid and noiseless, and the two packets pass through the least possible space in reversing their position. To make the pass in question, the neophyte is instructed to hold the pack in the left hand, little finger at one end, first and second fingers at side, thumb diagonally across top of pack, with first joint pressed down against the opposite end, and the third finger curled up against the bottom.
The second finger-tip holds a break at the side locating
The second finger-tip holds a break at the side locating the cut, or separating the two packets that are to be reversed. See Fig. 52 on page 100. The reader will doubtless have noted in perusing these instructions that the pack is held in a very unusual manner, viz.,