Table of Contents

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

Main Contents

• Professional Secrets
• Technical Terms
• Legerdemain
• Card Tricks

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