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
How to Spot a Skilled Poker Cheat
How to Spot a Skilled Poker Cheat Most top-notch Poker cheats announce the fact that they are skilled mechanics long before they make a crooked move. They do it as soon as they begin to deal. The giveaway is the peculiar manner in which they hold the deck, known as the "mechanic's grip."
The skilled Poker cheat holds the deck in either the right or left
The skilled Poker cheat holds the deck in either the right or left hand (we will assume from here on that it's the left hand). Three fingers are on the edge of the long side of the deck and the index finger at the outer right corner. Some mechanics keep two fingers on the side of the deck and two at the outer corner.