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
To palm, press the right little finger, exactly at
To palm, press the right little finger, exactly at the first joint, firmly against the top cards, pull them up about half an inch at corner, freeing them from the left second and third fingers meanwhile keeping the three right fingers little, second, and third perfectly straight. The cards to be palmed are now held firmly between the right little finger and the left little finger. See Fig.
36 on page 84. Straighten out the right forefinger
36 on page 84. Straighten out the right forefinger swing left little finger with the cards to be palmed free of the end of the pack, and press the cards into the right palm with the end of the left third finger. See Fig. 37 on page 84. Draw the pack out about half way from under the right hand, and remove the left hand entirely.