Card Mastery Plus The Complete Text of

"The Expert at the Card Table"

By Michael MacDougall - The Card Detective

Gives you both the classic and the new at your fingertips.

 

1.  Includes the full text of the seminal “The Expert At The Card Table”, by S.W. Erdnase.

 

2.  The rest of Card Mastery, written by Michael MacDougall, includes new sleights, new methods of culling and stacking, a new bottom steal, and more.  This will interest all card men, magicians, and demonstrators.  Has methods and stunts for use in Gambling Expose acts, including the “Seven Hands Of Satan” poker deal.   

 

 

Part I: Card Mastery 

Introduction
Definition Of Terms Relating To The Deck

Grand Opening
14 Seven hands Of Satan

Chapter 1 Dealing Seconds
17 A Striking Second
19 The Double-Dealing Second
21 For Experts Only
23 Extra Fancy Seconds
25 One-handed Second
26 Tricky "Thirds"

Chapter 2 Card Identification
28 Knick-Knacks
29 Poker Player's Paradise
30 Peek-A-Boo
31 Gambler's Glimpse

Chapter 3 Subway Dealing
34 Two-handed Bottoms
35 One-handed Bottoms
37 Confounding The critics

Chapter 4 Culling And Stacking
39 Correct Culling
39 The Bottom Cull
41 The Top Cull
42 The Riffle Stack
44 Stacking In Ten-Handed Poker
46 Unwanted Extra Top Card
47 The Interlacing Riffle
49 The Haymaker
50 Cheating Cheaters

Chapter 5 Shifts And Cuts
53 The Two-Handed Shift
55 The One-Handed Shift
56 The Cutless Cut
57 The Crimp
59 The Bridge
61 The Snap Crimp

Chapter 6 Palming And Stealing
63 The Top Palm
64 The Multiple Top Palm
66 The Bottom Steal
67 An Extra Card

Chapter 7 False Shuffles
69 The Overhand False Shuffle
71 The Push-Through Riffle
73 The Pull-Through Riffle
75 The Triple Cut

Chapter 8 Two Smart Sleights
78 The Center Deal
79 Switching The Hole Card 

Part II: The Expert at the Card Table

Professional Secrets
14 Hold Outs
15 Prepared Cards
18 Confederacy
20 Two Methods of Shuffling
21 Primary Accomplishments
21 Possibilities of the Blind
22 Uniformity of Action
22 Deportment
23 Display of Ability
23 Greatest Single Accomplishment
24 Effect of Suspicion
24 Acquiring the Art
25 Importance of Details

Technical Terms: Definitions of

Erdnase System of Blind Shuffles
29 Position for Shuffle
30 I. To Retain Top Stock
31 II. To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
32 III. To Retain Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Stock

Erdnase System of Blind Riffles and Cuts
34 I. To Retain Top Stock
36 II. To Retain Bottom Stock

Blind Cuts
39 I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Loosing One Card
40 II.To Retain Complete Stock
41 III. To Retain Top Stock
42 IV. To Retain Bottom Stock
44 V. Combination Riffle and Cuts

Fancy Blind Cuts
44 I. To Retain Complete Stock
45 II. To Retain Complete Stock
46 One Handed Fancy True Cut

To Indicate the Location for the Cut
48 I. By Crimp
50 II. By Jog
11 III. By Crimp
51 IV. By Jog

Bottom Dealing
56 Top and Bottom Dealing. One Hand

Second Dealing
60 Ordinary Methods of Stocking, Locating and Securing
65 Stock Shuffle
68 Erdnase System of Stock Shuffling
69 Two Card Stock
72 Three Card Stock
72 Four Card Stock
74 Five Card Stock
74 Twelve Card Stock
76 Euchre Stock
76 Euchre Stock

Erdnase System of Cull Shuffling
79 To Cull Two Cards
79 To Cull Three Cards
80 To Cull Four Cards
81 To Cull Nine Cards

83 Erdnase System of Palming
83 Top Palm, First Method
85 Top Palm, Second Method
86 Bottom Palm, First Method
88 Bottom Palm Second Method
90 Bottom Palm When Cards are Riffled

93 To Maintain the Bottom Card While Dealing

94 To Hold the Location of the Cut While Dealing

Shifts
97 Two-Handed Shift
99 Erdnase Shift, One Hand
102 Erdnase Shift, Two Hands

To Ascertain the Top Cards While Riffing and Reserve Them at the Bottom
104 Mode of Holding the Hand
106 Skinning the Hand

The Player Without an Ally
109 Dealing Without The Cut
110 Replacing the Cut as Before
110 Holding Out for the Cut
111 Shifting the Cut
112 Dealing Too Many
113 Copping for the Cut
113 Replacing Palm when Cutting
116 The Short Deck

Three Card Monte
122 Mexican Monte

127 Legerdemain

Shifts
128 Single-Handed Shifts
130 The Longitudinal Shift
132 The Open Shift
134 The S.W.E. Shift
137 The Diagonal Palm Shift

The Blind Shuffle for Securing Selected Card

Forcing

Palming
The Back Palm

Changes
147 The Top Change
148 The Bottom Change
149 The Palm Change
150 The Double Palm Change

Transformations: Two Hands
151 First Method
152 Second Method
153 Third Method
153 Fourth Method
154 Fifth Method
154 Sixth Method

Transformations: One Hand
156 First Method
158 Second Method

Blind Shuffles Retaining Entire Order
159 First Method
161 Second Method
163 Third Method
164 Fourth Method
165 Fifth Method

Methods for Determining a Card Thought Of
166 A. By The Riffle
166 B. By Springing Flourish
167 C. By the Cut
167 D. By the Gaze

168 To Get Sight of Selected Card

The Slide

169 Favorite Sleights for Terminating Tricks
169 Catching Two Cards at Finger-ends
169 Leaving Selected Card in Hand of Spectator
170 The Revolution
170 Cards Rising from the Hand

Card Tricks
171 Explanatory
172 The Exclusive Coterie
174 The Divining Rod
177 The Invisible Flight
179 The Prearranged Deck
185 The Traveling Cards
188 The Row Of Ten Cards
191 The Acrobatic Jacks
194 A Mind Reading Trick
196 Power Of Concentrated Thought
197 The Acme Of Control
198 The Card And Handkerchief
200 The Top And Bottom Production
202 The Three Aces
204 The Card And Hat

 

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