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.
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
The meaning as indicated by the latter portion of the paragraph appears to be that the lower packet is to be clipped between the second finger or rather the first and second fingers and the back of the third finger. and it will take no part in the action. It is, however, to be observed that the necessity of using the right hand by way of cover makes this pass practically a two-handed one.
This aid to the operation is, of course, equally open to the conjurer. Those who, even with this assistance, find this form of the pass difficult, may fall back upon that next described, which is very much easier of execution. THE ERDNASE SHIFT TWO HANDS The pack is held at starting in the left hand, between thumb at top and little finger at bottom, as indicated in the case of the pass last described, save that in this case the first finger is curled up against the bottom, and the third finger lies, in company with the second, against the side.