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
There is no strain on the fingers.
There is no strain on the fingers. The deck fits fairly on its side, across the palm, and the left-hand fingers are in much the same position as they would naturally take when the hand is about half closed. It is an excellent manner of holding the deck for the true shuffle, and should be strictly adhered to on all occasions. BLIND SHUFFLES The objects of blind shuffling are to retain a top stock, i.
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e., to retain in the same order the upper portion of the deck which has been prearranged for dealing, or to retain a bottom stock, which usually consists of certain desired cards placed together at the bottom, to be taken from that position at will, during the deal, by bottom dealing or to retain the whole deck in a certain order, which is rarely attempted, though quite possible. Under the respective headings of Stocking, and Culling, it will be learned how the blind shuffle runs up the cards in any desired order, and gathers certain cards from any position to the bottom but the several methods of retaining the top and bottom stocks are treated separately. To Retain Top Stock.Under