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 deck is cut into two blocks and their ends riffled together quite
The deck is cut into two blocks and their ends riffled together quite honestly. The move comes during the split second that the cards are pushed together and reassembled into a single pack. The cheat pushes the two blocks of interwoven cards into each other at an angle, an action that is covered by the manner in which he holds his hands. Then, without any hesitation, he gives the cards a fast cut—or that is what seems to happen. Actually, he takes a new grip on the cards, grabs the right-hand block with the left fingers, the left-hand block with the right fingers, pulls the interwoven blocks through each other, slaps the block originally on top back on top, and squares the deck fairly as he should have done but didn't do immediately after the riffle. The pull-through action is done so smoothly and so fast that as far as the average chump is concerned it is quicker than the eye can follow.
Although the cards were fairly riffled and the action had the
Although the cards were fairly riffled and the action had the appearance and sound of a legitimate shuffle not a single card has changed position.