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 object of the inventor is evidently to cover the
The object of the inventor is evidently to cover the pack as little as possible till the critical moment, but the extension of all four fingers appears the more natural plan. With the right thumb push up the lower packet about an inch, the finger-tips of the right hand covering its advance. Continue the upward progress of the packet by means of the pressure of the finger-tips the curled-up left forefinger aiding from below till the ends of the two packets pass each other, the original lower packet springing up into the palm, and the other closing up beneath it.
It is a special recommendation of this pass that it
It is a special recommendation of this pass that it can be made with the fingers of the right hand nearly or quite straight, and the palm held well away from the pack. If the right hand is kept with its back turned to the spectators, it completely covers all the movements of his left, and the thumb may be extended in the freest and most natural manner. THE S.W.E.