Poker is a card game that everyone quite enjoys, with diverse ways to play and easy to grasp—it is a great form of leisure and entertainment. During play, people also master certain card skills that help them win. The Linyi card skills company introduces a technique for memorizing cards during the poker shuffle; this is a slow-speed card skill exercise.

The advantage of slow practice is that it gives a person's motor nerves ample time to adjust and correct the shortcomings and deficiencies in shuffle memorization based on the suits and ranks fed back by vision and hearing, making it better conform to the envisioned requirements of random shuffle memorization and the final shuffle goal, thereby establishing the correct habitual response and conditioned reflex of the motor nerves.

Slow practice is relative to original speed; practitioners should choose a suitable speed for practice according to their own level, the differing technical difficulty of face-up and face-down shuffle memorization, and the degree of progress in shuffling. Slow practice plays a very important role and has great significance in shuffle memorization practice.

But slow practice is not simply slow speed; if the method is incorrect or unscientific, and slow practice is misunderstood and misapplied, no matter how much effort is spent, shuffle memorization cannot be mastered well. The scientific method of slow practice should be: be positive and serious in mindset, and practice and comprehend the finger shuffle movements, card-touching feel, poker size and model, card control, suit and rank changes, and handling of the game no matter how many people are playing, etc., all according to the essentials of fast shuffle memorization.

Slow practice merely enlarges the interval between cards, while each finger shuffling the cards remains proactive, agile, and powerful, and each portion of cards shuffled out remains clear and substantial, the same as during fast shuffling—except that in slow practice the finger movement amplitude can be exaggerated, and as speed gradually increases, the movement amplitude should gradually shrink; the faster the shuffle, the more refined and smaller the finger movements. Of course, the interval between cards is not better the larger it is; as long as each finger's shuffling movement and each card in shuffle memorization can be fully commanded by the brain and clearly checked by the ear, that is enough.

During slow practice, because the speed is slowed down, practitioners should use ample time to patiently practice reasonable movement combinations, find the best coherent movement route, keep the shuffling movements from deforming, overcome technical difficulties, and successfully memorize the cards shuffled.

 

How to remember the poker cards others have played?

Playing poker is now a fairly familiar leisure activity, with simple props and diverse ways to play; however, to win, people also need to master certain card skills, such as remembering the cards others have played and then analyzing the game. But different poker games have different memorization methods; below, the Linyi card skills company briefly introduces them.

1. Two-deck Dou Dizhu has 108 cards. During play, it is not very meaningful to record every single card throughout; just remember the key cards. You can practice progressively from large to small, and at the same time refine specifically according to card patterns and positions. For example, if the landlord holds a straight that is not especially large, they need to remember the number of middle-segment cards, such as 9/10/J, to ensure their straight can get through at the final moment or force out the opponent's bomb.

2. 80 Points also uses two decks, but the memorization method differs from Dou Dizhu: memorize by suit. Generally, there is no need to remember specific cards; mainly consider quantities, because at the start they are all *4. Before one side has played out all cards, you can remember by rounds, listing a table in your mind of how many cards of each suit have been played and how many remain, to judge whether you can throw cards, etc.

3. Texas Hold'em, under special circumstances, can be helped toward victory by card memorization, but the probability is very small and the difficulty is not great; rather than card memorization, it is more like card reading. Generally, Texas Hold'em is mainly a psychological battle: observe the opponent's betting patterns over the first few rounds to make targeted bets and calls, and win by varying between genuine all-in and fake intimidation according to different opponents.

4. One-deck Dou Dizhu is the card game with the highest demands and frequency for card memorization; however, of course, the key to this game lies in bidding, and card memorization comes second. If you are an expert, memorize every card on the table; ordinary players just need to remember key cards according to their own card patterns.

Of course, if playing card games is for recreation, and you find it troublesome, there is no need to force yourself to memorize cards; but if you are a professional player or participating in a competition, then card memorization is an indispensable skill.