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
ORDINARY METHODS OF STOCKING, LOCATING AND SECURING
ORDINARY METHODS OF STOCKING, LOCATING AND SECURING The most ordinary mode of stocking consists in arranging the cards as discreetly as possible while taking tricks, or making the discard, or while gathering up for the deal. There is no sleight of hand in this. A player, if he keeps his wits about him, finds many opportunities during a sitting of prearranging to some extent for his deal.
With the aid of a partner of course the possibilities
With the aid of a partner of course the possibilities are doubled. But the general understanding is that the whole deck must be tampered with before the shuffle begins. If dalliance with the deck is allowedand it is amazing how much of that sort of thing is permitted in some gamesa practiced operator can run up one or two hands with incredible rapidity, and his actions will appear as mere trifling.