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
Nailing: The cheat digs his thumbnail into the side edge of the card
Nailing: The cheat digs his thumbnail into the side edge of the card and leaves a small identifying indentation which, like all markings, even expert ones, can be seen at some distance when you know what to look for. The mark is placed on both side edges so that it can be spotted no matter which way the card is held, and turning the card end for end does not change the mark's location in relation to the end of the card.
In Stud Poker, for example, only high cards are marked, the others
In Stud Poker, for example, only high cards are marked, the others being less important. A nail mark near the upper end of the card indicates an ace, a quarter of the way down it signals a king, halfway down it means queen, and so on.