by dboeren
One more thing to add, it's a LOT easier to riffle cards if they're not in sleeves. If you have to use sleeves (and you don't unless you're in a tournament which has a sleeving rule), the tighter fit the better for riffling. People I know who never learned to riffle claim you can sort of mush two piles of sleeved cards together to achieve a roughly similar effect but I doubt it's as good and personally I think it just makes you look like someone who never learned to shuffle cards.Still better than the godawful thing some people do where they spread cards out on a table and sort of stir them around with their hands. That does an absolutely awful job of mixing the cards, it's slow as hell, AND it makes you look like some sort of brain damaged walrus waving your flippers around.