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The William W. Larsen Memorial Library
Signed Copy
Gambling Sleight of Hand – Forte Years of Research Volume 2
Author/Editor: Forte, Steve
MUCKS, HOLDING OUT, COOLERS AND MORE
Mucks
Holding Out
Coolers
Palming
A Few More Moves
ERDNASE
Observations
Card Table Artifice
Erdnase Systems of Blind Shuffles
To Indicate the Location for the Cut
Bottom Dealing
Second Dealing
Ordinary Methods of Stocking, Locating and Securing
Stock Shuffle
Erdnase System of Stock Shuffling
Erdnase System of Cull Shuffling
Erdnase System of Palming
To Maintain the Bottom Palm While Dealing
To Hold Location of Cut While Dealing
Shifts
To Ascertain Top Cards (Riffling) and Reserve Them at the Bottom
Mode of Holding the Hand
Skinning the Hand
The Player Without an Ally
Three Card Monte
The Revelations
The Thought Process
Plagiarism
Sub-par Gambling Moves
Omissions
Oddities
Did Erdnase Violate His Own Principles?
Magic
Annotators
Opposing Views
Conclusions
PSEUDO GAMBLING STUNTS
Cutting the Aces
The Stunts
False Shuffle & Cut Demonstrations
Stacking and Culling Demonstrations
False Dealing Demonstrations
Other Dealing Demonstrations
Gambling Routines
Odds and Ends
Flourishes
Fakes
Impressions
Total Recall Scanning
CLOSING THOUGHT
Appendix
Index
References
Names
Moves, Stunts, Principles
Chapter Photo Pages