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 same shift may be made with the deck held flat
The same shift may be made with the deck held flat in the palm, the left thumb lying idly across the top, and the first finger at the side with the others, but we much prefer the former position, though it is a great deal more difficult. The latter position is an excellent one when it is necessary to make a shift that is apparently a simple cut, in which event the right hand does not tilt its packet on top. The hands immediately separate, and the under packet is placed on top when desired.
Tastes differ, and the reader may safely be left to
Tastes differ, and the reader may safely be left to decide for himself which of these two methods is, for him, the more suitable. The idea of pushing the upper packet to the left with the right forefinger is a distinct novelty, and for the purpose last suggestedof making the pass while apparently merely dividing the pack say, in order to have a drawn card placed ostensibly in the middle, it has a special value, as effecting the desired object in a particularly neat way. THE ERDNASE TOP PALM The purpose for which Mr.