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
Throw To pass from the right hand to the left during
Throw To pass from the right hand to the left during a shuffle a certain number of cards in one packet, thereby retaining their order. A throw may be required at the beginning, during the process, or at the end of a shuffle and the packet to be thrown may be located by the jog, or break, or by both. To cull is the act of selecting one or more desired cards and may consist simply in making the selection as discreetly as possible while gathering up the cards for the deal, or it may be the operation of a much more obscure and apparently impossible featthat of gathering the desired cards rapidly and easily, from various positions in the deck, to the bottom, during the process of a shuffle that appears perfectly natural and regular.
Blind Any method of shuffling, riffling, cutting or
Blind Any method of shuffling, riffling, cutting or culling designed to appear regular, but in reality retaining, or arranging, some preconceived order. Upper Cut.To take or draw off a packet from the top of the deck.