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
Now suddenly draw out the middle packet with the right
Now suddenly draw out the middle packet with the right second finger and thumb, the lower packet with the left second finger and thumb, and release the top packet with the right second finger, which will allow it to fall on the table. See Fig. 14. Drop the left hand packet on top, and then the right packet.
The hands must be separated rapidly, and with some
The hands must be separated rapidly, and with some degree of skill, to allow the top packet to fall fairly on the table, but this is the only hurried movement in the cut. The other two packets are thrown on top carelessly and without haste. A little practice is required to execute the ruse gracefully.