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
Although individual marking systems vary, all card markings fall
Although individual marking systems vary, all card markings fall into eight kinds of work. Edge Work: On cards having white margins on the backs, the line between the margin and back design is thickened slightly at certain points. A mark high up indicates an ace; a little lower down, a king, etc.
Line Work: Additional small spots, curlicues or lines are added to
Line Work: Additional small spots, curlicues or lines are added to the back design. Cutout: A chemical preparation bleaches out or a sharp knife scrapes off a minute area of ink from the design, thus adding white areas that weren't there originally.