The Expert at the Card Table
  • Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Card Table Artifice
    • 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 Accomplishment
    • Effect of Suspicion
    • Acquiring the Art
    • Importance of Details
    • Technical Terms
    • Erdnase System for Blind Shuffles
      • Position for Shuffle
      • Blind Shuffles
      • I. To Retain Top Stock
      • II.To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
      • III. To Retain the Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
    • Erdnase System of Blind Riffles and Cuts
      • Blind Riffles
        • I. To Retain the Top Stock
        • II. To Retain the Bottom Stock
      • Blind Cuts
        • I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card
        • II. To Retain the Complete Stock
        • III. To Retain the Top Stock
        • IV. To Retain the Bottom Stock
      • Combination Riffle and Cuts
        • V. To Retain Bottom Stock. Riffle II and Cut IV
      • Fancy Blind Cuts
        • I. To Retain the Complete Stock
        • II. To Retain the Complete Stock
    • One-Handed Fancy True Cut
    • To Indicate the Location for the Cut
      • I. This is located by the Crimp
      • II. This is located by the jog
      • III. This is located by the crimp
      • IV. This is located by the 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
    • The 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
    • The 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 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
      • A
      • B
      • C
      • D
    • 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 Raising from the Hand
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  1. Card Table Artifice
  2. Erdnase System of Blind Riffles and Cuts
  3. Blind Cuts

I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card

Seize the deck with left hand at sides, near end, between second finger and thumb, the first finger tip pressing on top. Seize the upper portion of deck with the right hand, at sides, near end, between the second finger and thumb. Raise the deck slightly with both hands and pull out the upper portion with the right hand, but retain the top card in the left hand by pressing on it with the left first finger tip. (See Fig. 11.) Immediately drop the left-hand packet on the table and bring the right-hand packet down on top with a slight swing, and square up.

The action is very simple and easy to execute, the movements are perfectly natural and regular, and, if performed gracefully, is very deceiving. The process displaces the top card, sending it to the middle, and if this blind is used when the top stock is to be retained, an extra card is placed there during the shuffle.

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