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
As described in the preceding method, the left hand
As described in the preceding method, the left hand should immediately release the pack, which is dropped on the table by the right. THE ERDNASE BOTTOM PALM The conjurer does not find very frequent occasion to palm cards from the bottom of the pack, but the ability to do so may now and then be useful to him. For an excellent method of doing so, we are again indebted to Mr.
Erdnase.
Erdnase. I have once more ventured to edit his instructions a little, in the direction of greater clearness. Seize the pack with the right hand between the first joints of the second and third fingers at the upper, and the thumb at the lower end the fingers close together and the third finger and thumb close to the outer corners, so as to expose as much of the pack as possible. Bring up the left hand and seize the pack from beneath, at the right thumb end, between the first and second fingers and that portion of the palm just under the second joint of the thumb, the thumb lying straight across the backs of the cards close to the end.