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Secrets of Gambling

by Hugh Miller

This all-encompassing book contains everything you need to learn the secret methods of con-men and gambles. 

Some of the secret card methods taught: mechanical methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks, crimps, shorts, holdouts, shiners, strippers, false shuffling, seconds, bottoms, locaters, electronics, breathers, etc. Other secrets taught: swindles, dice, Loads, caps, shaved dice, mis-spotted, blanket roll, 3 Card Monte, Three Shell Game, Roulette, Poker, Blackjack, Bingo, the odds, etc.

Please be advised: These copies are from a 1980s printing and are in good condition for having been in storage that long. This is not a new printing. They are not perfect and you may find a smudge on the dust jacket or a scratch on the cover. We just want you to know up front and be happy with your purchase. This is considered a collectible book.
 

Contents Include:

•  Introduction

3 Cheating at cards
3 Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33 Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36 Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40 Holdouts: Kepplinger type, bug, card index, magnetic cards, ring holdouts
48 Shiners
51 Confederates: signals, hand signals, other body signals, electronic communication
61 Card Handling
61 Palming: 3 top palms, gamblers flat palm, 3 bottom palms
66 False Shuffling: strip-out riffle shuffle, gamblers false shuffle, to retain a top stock, faro
73 False Cutting: a false cut, slip cut, Vernons "The Cold Deck Cut"
76 Crooked Dealing: seconds, bottoms
79 Miscellaneous Swindles: double lift peek, restoring a cut, top change, locaters, confederates
85 The Greatest Swindles
87 Dice: loads, caps, shaved dice, beveled dice, mis-spotted dice, magnets
92 Detecting Fake Dice
95 Crooked Dice Handling: 3 controls, blanket roll, switching
98 Find the Lady (three card Monte)
102 The Three Shell game
104 The Endless Belt (this is the chain loop swindle)
105 Elusive Aces: a brief discussion of mis-indexed gaff cards, for use in the three card Monte or other card-based scams
108 Roulette
113 Safe Bets: several mathematical and proposition type wagers
123 The Odds
125 Dice (odds)
127 Bingo (odds)
127 Blackjack (odds)
128 Poker (odds)

 

Details: Secrets of Gambling by Hugh Miller

128 pages, hardbound with dust jacket, size: 6" b y 9".

©1970 Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio, London
©1980 The Supreme Magic Co., U.K