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
Scarne Cut (The World-Famous). A defense against card cheats. To execute,
Scarne Cut (The World-Famous). A defense against card cheats. To execute, pull a group of cards from the center of the deck and place them on top of the deck. Then simply cut the deck in the usual manner by cutting a packet of cards off the top of the deck.
Scarne Riffle to Detect Marked Cards. To execute, the deck is held in the left
Scarne Riffle to Detect Marked Cards. To execute, the deck is held in the left hand lengthwise with fingers on the bottom and thumb on top. The fingers of the right hand bend the upper part of the deck backwards and riffle them rapidly. If the back design of the cards has been altered, no matter how minutely, the onlooker will see dots jumping back and forth, and the chances are 99 to 1 that the deck is marked.