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
See Fig.
See Fig. 11. Immediately drop the left-hand packet on the table and bring the right-hand packet down on top with a slight swing, and square up. The action is very simple and easy to execute, the movements are perfectly natural and regular, and, if performed gracefully, is very deceiving. The process displaces the top card.
sending it to the middle, and if this blind is used
sending it to the middle, and if this blind is used when the top stock is to be retained, an extra card is placed there during the shuffle. II. To Retain the Complete Stock. The following is a very bold and bare-faced blind, but if cleverly executed it appears natural Seize the deck at sides near the ends between the second finger and thumb of each hand, but the left hand seizing the under portion, and the right hand the top portion.