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
The move, a simple one, consists in exerting pressure on the top
The move, a simple one, consists in exerting pressure on the top card with the thumb and pushing it against the fingers on the opposite outer corner of the deck. This causes the card to buckle or bend upward near the index corner just enough so that the cheat can look into the opening thus formed and glimpse the index. He gives it a careless glance at the right moment, releases the pressure of his thumb, and the top card flattens out again.
Some cheats peek while dealing one-handed. Others pretend to
Some cheats peek while dealing one-handed. Others pretend to look at the face-down card in their Stud Poker hand and peek the top card at the same time.