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 ERDNASE OPEN SHIFT For the pass to which Mr.
THE ERDNASE OPEN SHIFT For the pass to which Mr. Erdnase gives the above name, his instructions are as follows Hold the deck in the left hand, the first joint of the thumb at one side, first joints of second, third, and little fingers at opposite side, the little finger holding a break between the two packets near the corner, and the little and third fingers being separated about one inch. The first finger is curled up against the bottom. Bring the right hand over, and seize the ends of deck close to right side corners, with the second finger and thumb tips the thumb seizing only the lower packet below the break, the first finger curled up on top.
See Fig.
See Fig. 69 on page 133. The right third and little fingers take no part in the action, and are held idly out of the way. The words in the original are the left third and little fingers, but this is obviously an error. To make the shift, curl the right first finger back over the side of deck, between the left little and third fingers, until the root of the fingernail rests against the edge of the top card.