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
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III. To Retain the Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck. Under cut about three-quarters of the deck and shuffle off about two-thirds, then in-jog one card and throw balance on top. Under cut to and include in-jog card see Fig.
4, and shuffle off.
4, and shuffle off. This blind retains the bottom stock and apparently shuffles the whole deck. The only difficulty in the action is in including the jog card in the second under cut. The jog card is pulled back by the thumb, creating a space above it then as the under cut is made, the thumb tip is pressed into the opening by squeezing the ends of the under packet, and the upper packet is not disturbed, because the thumb nail slips easily across the card above it as the lower packet is drawn out.