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
SHIFT The pass which Mr.
SHIFT The pass which Mr. Erdnase designates by his initials, as above, is the same as that last described, with one small difference, viz., that the pack is held lengthwise instead of breadthwise between the thumb and second and third fingers the forefinger lying, as in the former case, curled up beneath, and the lower packet is brought over the side, instead of over the end of the pack, and has consequently a much shorter distance to travel. There is in this case much less cover from the right hand, but Mr.
Erdnase claims that the pass in this shape can be performed
Erdnase claims that the pass in this shape can be performed so rapidly that such cover is not necessary indeed he recommends that the pack be seized by its extreme lower end, and between the second and third finger tips and thumb only as in Fig. 71 on page 135, fully two-thirds of the surface of the pack being thus exposed. In any case it is an easy and rapid pass, and should be useful to the conjurer desirous of varying his modes of procedure.