Poker 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 most popular, the most effective and the least suspicious-looking
The most popular, the most effective and the least suspicious-looking false cut is the "running false cut." The reason that this false cut is next to impossible to detect when expertly done is that it resembles an honest series of running cuts. The honest running cut is used by house dealers in legalized Las Vegas Texas Hold'em Poker rooms to prevent the players from tracking the positions of certain cards during the shuffle. However, the last cut prior to the deal used by all Las Vegas dealers is the regular and plain one-handed cut.
The running false cut is executed as follows: the sharper, instead of
The running false cut is executed as follows: the sharper, instead of making use of the regular one-handed single cut, makes a false series of single cuts using both hands. The sharper pulls a small block of cards off the bottom, slaps it on top and leaves a step. He repeats the action with the opposite hand, and continues until the block originally on top has gone down through the deck and, on the last cut, comes back once more to the top. It looks good, but nothing was changed; all the cards are in their original order. Many honest players make running cuts like this—but eye anyone closely who does so. Watch for a step in the deck, although the whole action is done so fast that your chance of spotting it is slim.