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How to Cheat at Cards
An insight into the mind, mechanics and devilry of a card cheat.
"...It was 13 years ago today when I almost lost my life cheating at cards, and what more poignant a day to release a book on the subject. It is a hope that How to Cheat at Cards will |
Daniel Madison |
15 Jan 2012 |
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The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself
No one thinks it can happen to them, but Americans are 40 times more likely to be defrauded than to have their cars stolen or their homes burgled. Con artists ruin people financially and emotionally, leaving in their wake a trail of destruction, broken ...more |
James Munton &
Jelita McLeod |
10 Oct 2011 |
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Card Sharpers
Subtitled: Their tricks exposed or the art of always winning
Translated from the French of Robert-Houdin by William J. Hilliar. Robert-Houdin wrote this book primarily as an expose to reduce the number of people being cheated. He writes in his preface: |
Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin &
William John Hilliar |
26 Aug 2011 |
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Secrets of Gambling
This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.
1st edition 1970, |
Hugh Miller |
10 May 2011 |
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The Score: playing card marking system
The Score is an ebook that teaches a special playing card marking system inspired by a concept probably as old as playing cards. The system has been re-thought and re-mastered by Daniel Madison with help from sleight of hand junkie Randall Freeman and ...more |
Daniel Madison |
21 Sep 2010 |
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How Gamblers Win - Secrets of Advantage Playing
This is a pre-Erdnase description of moves and ruses to cheat at the card table by an unnamed 'retired professional'. However, Bart Whaley's research revealed that this retired professional was Gerrit M. Evans, that his real name was most likely Edward |
Gerritt M. Evans |
13 Mar 2008 |
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Three Card Monte
This is a treatise on the sucker effects of the Three Card Monte. It starts with an intro by Nate Leipzig, includes a definition of gambling terms and goes on to explain moves, routines and schemes to work the Three Card Monte. John Scarne was a master ...more |
Audley V. Walsh &
John Scarne |
10 Jan 2008 |
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Scarne on Dice
This is probably the most important work John Scarne wrote. It is complete and authoritative. In this revised edition John provides the reader with a complete look at the world of dice, including for the first time an insider's view of how dice games are ...more |
John Scarne |
13 Sep 2007 |
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Cheating at Hold'em
How to Protect Yourself from Being Scammed at the Card Table
"Cheating at Hold'em" is not a cliché exposé. "Cheating at Hold'em" is a course in protective strategy. "Cheating at Hold'em" will provide you with all the knowledge needed to ...more |
David Malek |
18 Nov 2005 |
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The Reformed Gambler
This book is one of the classic books in gambling. It is an autobiography and describes Jonathan Green's conversion from a gambler to an exposer and teacher.
Among others it exposes: game of thimbles; diamond cut diamond, or the gentleman's game; Dead |
Jonathan H. Green |
5 Sep 2005 |
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Sharps and Flats
Sharps and Flats is probably the most important early book on cheating devices and methods. Sharps being the cheaters and flats being the cheated, the mark. Maskelyne details among others, marked cards, holdouts (Kepplinger holdout), reflectors and manipulation. ...more |
John Nevil Maskelyne |
5 Sep 2005 |
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Mysterien des Kartenspiels
Dieses Buch ist in Deutsch verfaßt und ganz dem falschen Spiel mit Karten gewidmet. Es behandelt unter anderem Griffe wie das Falschmischen, Spielaustausch, präparierte Karten und Gehilfen.
Erstausgabe, 1900, Berlinische Verlagsanstalt; 53 pages.
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Arthur Toskana |
5 Sep 2005 |
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Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
This is the story of a boy who ran away from home to become a cabin boy on a Mississippi riverboat at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. And for forty years after this point in time he bilked people from all walks of live, businessmen, ...more |
George H. Devol |
5 Sep 2005 |
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20 Years a Fakir
Weldon traveled this country during the last 20 years of the 19th century, learning and perfecting tricks of the street peddler. Many of these ploys are still used today in one form or another. He helped pioneer the many subleties of "street selling" and ...more |
S. James Weldon |
5 Sep 2005 |
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The Rich Uncle from Fiji
A classic textbook containing numerous swindles for those who desire to take down and rope the public! It is unique in that it has the only written description of the coin purse swindle - complete with photographs. Many of these cons are being used today, ...more |
M. P. Adams |
9 Aug 2005 |
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The Right Way To Do Wrong
This is a fun book to read. Great stories about pickpockets, burglars, bunco men, thiefs, and others. Houdini collected interesting cases talking to detectives, and police chiefs. The book describes the methods used to scam innocent victims. Some of these ...more |
Harry Houdini |
9 Aug 2005 |
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The Expert at the Card Table
Originally entitled Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table, is probably the most cited and referenced book about card gambling moves - a classic in the history of magic literature. A must read for any card magician or aspiring gambling expert ...more |
S. W. Erdnase |
14 Jun 2005 |
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