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
endwise between the thumb at top and the little finger
endwise between the thumb at top and the little finger at bottom. These, by the way, should not be placed midway, but near the outer corners of the pack. This method of holding the cards is, so far as I am aware, an entirely new departure, and may be commended to the special attention of the card conjurer.
It will be found that this method of holding gives
It will be found that this method of holding gives an extremely firm grip of the pack or, in action, of the upper portion of it, while leaving the longer edges of the cards quite free, and the first, second, and third fingers available for the needful manipulation. Mr. Erdnase continues his instructions as follows Now by squeezing the under packet between the second finger and palm and pressing the upper packet with the thumb at one end against the little finger at the other end, it will be found that the two packets can be moved independently.