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
Erdnase uses this palm is the temporary abstraction
Erdnase uses this palm is the temporary abstraction of a group of pre-arranged cards, to be afterwards replaced on the pack, and dealt in the course of a card game, to the pecuniary advantage of the dealer. Under such delicate circumstances, it is obvious that the highest possible degree of finish is desirable in the execution of the sleight. The operator in such a case has a good deal more at stake than the conjurer, with whom neatness of execution is merely a matter of professional prestige, and not of social reputation, or appearance in a police court.
We note with the greater interest what Mr.
We note with the greater interest what Mr. Erdnase has to tell us on the subject. His instructions, with a few minute verbal recomendations, are as follows Hold the pack in the left hand so that the first joints of the second and third fingers shall be against the middle of one side, the thumb against middle of opposite side, the first joint of little finger against middle of lower end, and first finger curled up against bottom. Bring the right hand over the top of the pack, the third, second, and little fingers close together, and the first joint of the little finger resting against the upper end corner the first finger curled up on top and the tip of thumb resting idly at end, above little finger of left hand.