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S. W. Erdnase 
The Expert at the Card Table 
The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation

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The Expert at the Card Table is the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables.’ —from the Foreword by Martin Gardner.

For almost a century, this book has been considered indispensable to attaining the highest level of card mastery. In it, S. W. Erdnase, a supreme master of card manipulation, teaches card enthusiasts how to perform the dazzling tricks and sleights — many of them his own creations — that made him famous.

The first section of the book deals with card table artifice, or, to put it more bluntly, cheating at cards. Step by step, Mr. Erdnase demonstrates his own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom, and such slick moves as palming cards, ‘skinning the hand’ — even three-card monte.

The second section covers legerdemain: the art of forcing a card, one- and two-hand transformations, the devious ‘slide’ and more. Card handlers will love Erdnase’s selection of dazzling card tricks, including The Acrobatic Jacks, The Exclusive Coterie, The Divining Rod, The Invisible Flights, A Mind Reading Trick, and many others.

In an informative Foreword to this edition, Martin Gardner relates the unhappy details of the author’s personal life, and recounts the history of this famous book, whose methods, Mr. Gardner asserts, ‘are as useful today by magicians and card hustlers as they were in 1902. This book is still the bible of card ‘mechanics, ‘ and as much a delight to read as it was in the early years of this century.’
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Inhoudsopgave

Foreword to Dover Edition

Preface

Introduction

CARD-TABLE ARTIFICE

Professional Secrets

Hold Outs

Prepared Cards

Confederacy

Two Methods or Shuffling

Primary Accomplishments

‘Possibilities of the ‘Blind’

Uniformity of Action

Deportment

Display of Ability

Greatest Single Accomplishment

Effect of Suspicion

Acquiring the Art

Importance of Detail

TECHNICAL TERMS

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND SHUFFLES

POSITION FOR SHUFFLES

BLIND SHUFFLES

I. To Retain Top Stock

II. To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck

III. To Retain Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND RIFFLES AND CUTS

BLIND RIFFLES

I. To Retain Top Stock

II. To Retain Bottom Stock

BLIND CUTS

I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card

II. To Retain Complete Stock

III. To Retain Top Stock

IV. To Retain Bottom Stock

COMBINATION RIFFLE AND CUTS

V. To Retain Bottom Stock

FANCY BLIND CUTS

I. To Retain Complete Stock

II. To Retain Complete Stock

ONE-HANDED FANCY TRUE CUT

TO INDICATE THE LOCATION FOR THE CUT

I. By Crimp

II. By Jog

III. By Crimp

IV. By Jog

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

Euchre Stock

Euchre Stock

ERDNASE SYSTEM OF CULL SHUFFLING

To Cull Two Cards

To Cull Three Cards

To Cull Four Cards

To Cull Nine Cards

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

TO MAINTAIN THE BOTTOM PALM WITH DEALING

TO HOLD THE LOCATION OF CUT WHILE DEALING

SHIFTS

Two-Handed Shifts

‘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

A. By the Riffle

B. By Springing Flourish

C. By the Cut

D. By the Gaze

TO GET SIGHT OF SELECTED CARD

THE SLIDE

FAVORITE SLEIGHTS FOR TERMINATING TRICKS

Catching Two Cards at Fingertips

Leaving Selected Card in Hand of Spectator

The Revolution

Cards Rising from the Hand

CARD TRICKS

Explanatory

The Exclusive Coterie

The Divining Rod

The Invisible Flight

TRICKS WITH PREARRANGED DECK

The Traveling 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

Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 160 ● ISBN 9780486156675 ● Bestandsgrootte 2.9 MB ● Uitgeverij Dover Publications ● Gepubliceerd 2012 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5272334 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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