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
Hook up the top portion with the second finger tip
Hook up the top portion with the second finger tip so that the corner will come out free of the third finger, thus dividing the deck in two. See Fig. 16. Then give the hand a slight swing or jerk downwards and inwards, releasing the upper portion with the second finger, allowing it to fall on the table.
Then drop under portion on top.
Then drop under portion on top. In seizing the deck, if it is slid to the table edge and tilted over slightly, the thumb and fingers take hold much easier, and are certain of raising all the cards. In making this cut the deck is held but a few inches from the table, and the action must be nicely made to have the cards fall flatly. The run cut can be made in the same way, dropping the packets one on the other.