A continuación se muestran dos variaciones de los elegantes cortes ciegos de Erdnase de “Expert at the card Table”.
Erdnase Fancy Cut #1
Fancy cut #1 is a three way cutting action with the cards being dropped from the hands in a one-two-three action as shown below.
My variation tables each of the three packets to the table, pauses for a beat and then reassembles them.
Undercut a third of the deck with the right hand and place the undercut cards on top of the deck maintaining a break with the right thumb. Pick up another third of the deck with the right thumb as the left hand lifts the remainder of the cards.
Move the right hand forward and to the right and drop the bottom packet.
Move the left and forward to the left and drop the left hand packet
Drop the remaining packet centered behind the other two packets. The packets of cards form an inverted triangle.
With your right hand pick up the packets in a counter-clockwise direction starting with the outer right packet.
If you think of the original deck order from top down as packets 1, 2 and three, after the first undercut the right hand drops packet 1, then the left hand drops packet 2 and the right hand drops packet 3 last. Then the right hand picks them up in 1, 2, 3 order.
Note – Looking at my books I discovered that this is similar to Frank Garcia’s Affas-Gaffas False Cut from “Million Dollar Card Secrets” published in 1972. The main difference is that the Affas-Gaffas cut lays the packets out in a straight line.
Erdnase Fancy Cut #2
Erdnase Fancy Cut #2 is like #1 except that it uses four packets. My variation, as in my variation on #1, cuts the packets to the table, instead of on top of each other.
Consider the deck as four packets, numbered from the top as #1, #2, #3 and #4. Start your cut by undercutting a quarter of the deck with your right and and bringing the packet #4) over the deck. Your left middle finger lifts a quarter of the remaining deck (packet #1). With your right middle or ring finger grab a quarter of the cards under packet #1 between your finger and right thumb (packet #2.) Packet #3, the last remaining block on the table is gripped in the left hand between the left ring finger and thumb.
At this point each hand controls two packets. The right hand has packets #4 and #2. The left hand has packets #1 and #3.
Pull the hands apart and move them forward to deposit the lower packets of each hand to the table (packet #3 from the left hand, packet #2 from the right.)
Move both hands straight back and drop the remaining packets (packet #1 from the left hand, packet #4 from the right) to the table to form a square.
[3]...........................[2] [1]...........................[4]
Now with your right hand take packet #3 and place it on packet #4. With your left hand take packet #1 and place it on packet #2. Then to end, take the packets #1, #2 and place them on packets #3, #4.
The deck is back to its original order.