How to Hold Playing Cards while Dealing a Hand

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Chris McKay on behalf of Expert Village.com. I am going to show you right now the proper way of holding deck of cards and again it may seem basic but there are some things that are pretty important about how you hold the deck of cards. First of all, I mean a huge thing; this is called a mechanic’s grip when the cards are just sitting in your dominant hand or your not dominant hand. I am a right-handed I hold the deck in my left hand, okay and you just let them kind of rest between your palm and at the bases of fingers and a lot of people don’t know what to do with this pointer finger. You should have it on the top of the deck and basically the reason for that is that it gives something for the cards to square against putting the finger under here or putting your pointer finger around like this which a lot of people do this. They just wrap their hand all the way around and the cards can easily jump out of your hand like this if your pointer isn’t there to sort of secure them in there and also just the cards just fall right into this corner between these two fingers here really nicely, so you want that. If you are transferring the cards over onto your right hand this is called brittle grip, which is just gripping the cards from above primarily with your middle finger and your ring finger and your thumb on the other side and the reason for this is that it just fits nicely together with mechanics grip. You see if I am holding with both hands, I’ve pretty much got a solid grip of the deck, but that’s mechanics grip and that’s brittle grip. "