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S.W. Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table

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Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PROFESSIONAL SECRETS

  • Hold-Outs
  • Prepared Cards
  • Confederacy
  • Two Methods of Shuffling
  • Primary Accomplishments
  • Possibilities of the “Blind”
  • Uniformity of Action
  • Deportment
  • Display of Ability
  • Greatest Single Accomplisment
  • Effect of Suspicion
  • Acquiring the Art
  • Importance of Detail

TECHNICAL TERMS

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND SHUFFLES

POSITION FOR SHUFFLE

BLIND SHUFFLES

  • To Retain Top Stock
  • To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
  • To Retain the Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND RIFFLES AND CUTS

BLIND RIFFLES

  • To Retain the Top Stock
  • To Retain the Bottom Stock

BLIND CUTS

  • To Retain Bottom Stock–Top Losing One Card
  • To Retain the Complete Stock
  • To Retain the Top Stock
  • To Retain the Bottom Stock
  • To Retain Bottom Stock. Riffle 2 and Cut 4

FANCY BLIND CUTS

  • To Retain the Complete Stock-1
  • To Retain the Complete Stock-2

FANCY TRUE CUT–ONE-HANDED

TO INDICATE THE LOCATION FOR THE CUT

  • This is Located by the Crimp
  • This is Located by the Jog
  • This is Located by the Crimp
  • This is located by the jog

BOTTOM DEALING AND SECOND DEALING

  • Bottom Dealing
  • Top and Bottom Dealing with one Hand
  • Second Dealing

ORDINARY METHODS OF STOCKING, LOCATING AND SECURING

STOCK SHUFFLE

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF STOCK SHUFFLING

  • Two-Card Stock
  • Three-Card Stock
  • Four-Card Stock
  • Five-Card Stock
  • Twelve-Card Stock–For Draw Poker
  • Euchre Stock–Four-Handed Game-1
  • Euchre Stock–Four-Hande Game-2

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF CULL SHUFFLING

  • To Cull Two Cards, Numbers 8, 4
  • To Cull Three Cards, Numbers 7, 5, 9
  • To Cull Four Cards, Numbers 3, 6, 2, 5
  • To Cull Nine Cards, Numbers 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 7, 1

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF PALMING

  • Top Palm–First Method
  • Top Palm–Second Method
  • Bottom Palm–First Method
  • Bottom Palm–Second Method
  • Bottom Palm–When Cards Are Riffled
  • Bottom Palm–When Cards Are Riffled-Second Method

TO MAINTAIN THE BOTTOM PALM WHILE DEALING

TO HOLD THE LOCATION OF CUT WHILE DEALING

SHIFTS

  • Two-Handed Shift
  • The Erdnase Shift–One Hand
  • Erdnase Shift–Two Hands

TO ASCERTAIN THE TOP CARDS WHILE RIFFLING AND RESERVE THEM AT BOTTOM

MODE OF HOLDING THE HAND

SKINNING THE HAND

THE PLAYER WITHOUT AN ALLY

  • Dealing Without the Cut
  • Replacing the Cut as Before
  • Holding Out for the Cut
  • Shifting the Cut
  • Dealing Too Many
  • Crimping for the Cut
  • Replacing Palm When Cutting
  • The Short Deck

THREE CARD MONTE

MEXICAN THREE CARD MONTE

LEGERDEMAIN

SHIFTS

  • Single Handed Shift
  • The Longitudinal Shift
  • The Open Shift
  • The S. W. E. Shift
  • The Diagonal Palm-Shift

THE BLIND SHUFFLE FOR SECURING SELECTED CARD

FORCING

PALMING

THE BACK PALM

CHANGES

  • The Top Change
  • The Bottom Change
  • The Palm Change
  • The Double Palm Change

TRANSFORMATIONS–TWO HANDS

  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
  • Fifth Method
  • Sixth Method

TRANSFORMATIONS–ONE HAND

  • First Method
  • Second Method

BLIND SHUFFLES RETAINING ENTIRE ORDER

  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
  • Fifth Method

METHODS FOR DETERMINING A CARD THOUGHT OF

TO GET SIGHT OF SELECTED CARD

THE SLIDE

FAVORITE SLEIGHTS FOR TERMINATING TRICKS

CARD TRICKS

  • The Exclusive Coterie
  • The Divining Rod
  • The Invisible Flight
  • The Prearranged Deck
  • The Travelling Cards
  • The Row of Ten Cards
  • The Acrobatic Jacks
  • A Mind Reading Trick
  • Power of Concentrated Thought
  • The Acme of Control
  • The Card and Handkerchief
  • The Top and Bottom Production
  • The Three Aces
  • The Card and Hat