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Black Jack Hole Card SwitchBrick Tilley This is an improvement in the handling of the Curry Turnover that makes this move easier to accomplish and more deceptive. A simple get-ready makes the exchange faster and infinitely more rewarding. It was perfected during hundreds of hours behind a Black Jack table without ever once being detected.
It can be used for magical purposes as well. Add this subtle weapon to your card arsenal.
1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 30 s. | 2021 / 1 / 9 | $10.00 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
10 Best Proposition Bets of America's Bigtime GamblersJohn Scarne A proposition bet is one which appears to give the taker an even chance and at times the best of it, but does just the opposite. Like con men, proposition gamblers pretend to be pleasant, friendly, easy-going, good fellows who would never think of double-crossing anyone. They also usually pretend that their prepared proposition bets are something they just happened to think up on the spot. They take great pleasure in beating seasoned gamblers; money is not the main objective. It's the prestige and self-satisfaction they derive from having outsmarted a top gambler, be he friend or foe.
While... | 2020 / 7 / 17 | $10.00 to wish listPDF |
Wyman's Hand-Book of MagicJohn Wyman This work covers a lot of ground, from various parlor tricks, chemical tricks, card tricks, to a section on two person codes, and a section on artifices of cardsharks.
- description Of The Magician's Table
- How To Make A Person Jump
- The Invisible Chicken, Or Enchanted Egg Bag, As Performed By The Celebrated Wyman
- Scrap, Or Blowing Book, As Performed By Potter
- Gun Cotton - How Prepared
- Sympathetic Inks
- Apparatus For Writing In The Dark
- Dancing Turkeys
- The Self-Balanced Pail
- Sympathetic Lamp
- The Gas Candle
- Ice Made In A Red Hot Vessel
- Magical Colours
- The Magic Nosegay Blowing At The...
| 2020 / 6 / 28 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
The Change RaisersWilton Moore Tucker Reveals the inside story on how the con artist forces you, or a store, or even a bank teller to hand him too much change.
This bit of larceny gains the criminal five, ten, or more dollars each time -- and that from a $2 purchase. Also shows how to keep from being shortchanged. Almost defies detection, and practically works itself. This is no pie-in-the-sky con. Newspaper and TV stories report that victims of every age and ethnicity are taken in by this technique.
Audiences are hungry for this information, to avoid being "taken." Makes an excellent lecture to provide to banks, stores, senior... | 2020 / 6 / 20 | $15.00 to wish listPDF |
The Original Blue Book 1949H. C. Evans From the back cover:
This, our latest SECRET BLUE BOOK with many features added, is the most complete catalog of the kind ever produced. The SECRET BLUE BOOK is but one of THREE CATALOGS of our complete line which covers the entire Indoor and Outdoor Amusement Field, supplying adult games of every description.
In the SECRET BLUE BOOK we list and describe a complete line of Dice, Cards, Trade Stimulators and Counter Games, Table Games suitable for use at public gatherings, Adult Games for the home or private play and Various SPECIAL Games.
Our CLUB AND CASINO EQUIPMENT Catalog, printed... | 2020 / 6 / 6 | $10.00 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Tricks and TrapsClifton R. Wooldridge This ebook exposes the scams and swindles used by carnival midway cheats, street gangs, road hustlers, and crooked mail-order businesses to cheat the public. Written by a Chicago police detective.
Many of these scams are still in use today. But please don't read this ebook to cheat -- instead, use it for your own protection, so you don't become the next victim.
Colorfully written, this handy guidebook ebook reveals the true-life scams, cons, swindles, ruses, devices and methods of the cheats and how they were taken down and brought to justice. Also includes descriptions of rigged carnival... | 2020 / 5 / 17 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
The Book of Thirty-OneToto From the preface and introduction:
This book could be titled "The Game of Thirty-One Revisited" because of the various articles that have made an attempt to describe the game. Why then did I set out to write this? First, because I consider the game of thirty-one such a delightful diversion from the "norm" that I want to bring it to the attention of the magic fraternity, and second, because I have many ideas I would like to add.
At the Magic Castle, in Hollywood, the game was first shown to me by Dai Vernon in August of 1980. The "Professor" frequently showed me card puzzles that he had learned over... | 2020 / 1 / 27 | $10.00 to wish listPDF |
The Australian Gambling Game of 31Ken de Courcy The Ace to Six of each suit are placed on the table, and the two players turn cards face down alternately and a running total of the pips is maintained. The winner is the one who takes the total to no more than 31. Even after the spectator is told the secret to winning, the magician still wins. Ends with an extra kicker.
PDF 10 pages | 2020 / 1 / 27 | $10.00 to wish listPDF |
Punch Work for Texas Hold'emT. Hayes This short ebook focuses on one of the most popular tactile card marking systems, in the context of Texas Hold'em Poker. Punch Work for Texas Hold'em begins by commenting on the history of the technique and detailing the numerous methods in which the marks can be created. Following this, how the marks can be utilised is explored from the perspective of each stage in standard Hold'em game procedure. The ebook then considers the ways in which these tactile marks can be varied to convey more information. Finally, given the ambiguity inherent in the way this marking system is commonly implemented,... | 2020 / 1 / 26 | $10.00 to wish listPDF |
The Unkindest CutBrick Tilley A false cut that uses the action of burning a card as misdirection. Particularly useful for cheating at BlackJack.
Chuck Smith was recorded doing this cut. (A letter from Chuck Smith to Brick Tilley is reproduced in the PDF.) He used it to beat players during the years of WWII. The sequence of actions is the following. You first openly cut the cards and complete the cut. Then you take the top card, turn it face up and place it as the bottom card. During the action of burning the top card you undo the cut. The demo video will prove how honest and fair this looks.
You will receive a PDF... | 2019 / 11 / 26 | $30.00 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Gamblers Don't GambleMichael MacDougall & J. C. Furnas  A card detective revelations of gambler's secrets.
MacDougall, who refers to himself as magician and card detective, tells of years of tracking down crooks, phony devices, and manipulations in every sort of gambling field. He shares anecdotes of various experiences, and explains several cardshark methods and moves including:
- Culling and Palming
- The Slip Cut
- Bottom Dealing
- Second Dealing and Sort Edge Cards
- The Haymaker Shuffle
- The False Riffle
- The Crimp
- Trick Stacking And A Misdeal
- The Interlacing Riffle
1st edition 1939, 167 pages; PDF 91 pages. | 2019 / 8 / 26 | $10.00 to wish listPDF |
Pre-Flop Single Card PeekT. Hayes This short ebook considers the game of Texas Hold'em, in which a cheat has knowledge of a single card that will appear on the flop. Whilst a couple of methods for achieving this are briefly described, the main contribution of this work is in highlighting the advantage that can be gained with knowledge of only a single card that will appear on the flop. Using analysis of how the cheats pre-flop range may be adjusted, the results show that even knowing only the suit of a flop card will give a significant advantage.
1st edition 2019, 8 pages. | 2019 / 7 / 29 | $0.00 to wish listPDF |
Gypsy SwitchBrick Tilley A shortened, up-to-date version of the 11 Dollar Bill Short Change routine. As a finish, the bills are sealed in an envelope. Upon opening, the envelope is found to contain pieces of newspaper. Here is a demo of the count only:
1st edition 2019, PDF 4 pages + 2 videos | 2019 / 4 / 6 | $10.00 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
The Gyp ArtistWilliam W. Larsen Here's an entertaining, 25- to 60-minute lecture that you, the magician or mentalist, can present on the topic of scams and cons. And it's a money-maker.
Become an Expert on Cons and Swindles...
Or just talk like one. This is a new field for most magicians and mentalists, allowing you to give your lecture to civic groups, security seminars, government agencies, corporations -- anywhere people gather. And these organizations have deep pockets, too, able to pay you well for your time.
Fabled Bunco Games of History...
Now become practical, effective tricks in the magician's hands, each... | 2018 / 12 / 15 | $12.00 to wish listPDF |
The Destruction of Mephisto's Greatest WebJames Henry Keate All grafts laid bare being a complete exposure of all gambling, graft and confidence games with stories illustrating the methods employed by the different operators.
This is a wonderful book on all things cheating at gambling (sleight-of-hand and machinery), various confidence games and other scams and crooked methods with several revealing illustrations.
- PREFACE
- ENDORSEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- EPITOME
- CHAPTER I Exposé of Gambling Devices
- CHAPTER II Exposé of Gambling Devices (Continued)
- The Mechanical Hold-out Poker Table
- The Revolving Poker Table
- The Sleeve Hold-out
- The Bug Hold-out
...
| 2018 / 11 / 7 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
The Gaming Table Volume 2Andrew Steinmetz This second volume of The Gaming Table is from a magician's point of view much more interesting. It includes a history of dice and playing cards including a fairly detailed description of how playing cards were made. It has a chapter on fortune telling with cards. And it also features a surprisingly good chapter on card tricks with explanations for four sleights (false shuffle, false cut, glide, card change) and 18 very nice card tricks. Among them we find a version of the prearranged deck and two person codes.
For people interested in Erdnase it is interesting to note that at the beginning of the... | 2018 / 9 / 25 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
The Gaming Table Volume 1Andrew Steinmetz The full title of this work is The Gaming Table: Its votaries and victims in all times and countries, especially in England and in France. It is essentially a history of gambling detailing people and places. It does include some exposure of cheating, but most of that is told in volume 2.
- Preface
- CHAPTER I. The Universal Passion Of Gaming; Or, Gaming All The World Over.
- CHAPTER II. Gambling Among The Ancient Hindoos.—A Hindoo Legend And Its Modern Parallel.
- CHAPTER III. Gambling Among The Ancient Egyptians, Persians, And Greeks.
- CHAPTER IV. Gaming Among The Ancient Roman Emperors.
- CHAPTER...
| 2018 / 9 / 25 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
Poker Rules in RhymeGeo. W. Allen This is an unusual book that teaches basic poker strategies, tactics, and odds in verse form, accompanied by color illustrations. This book is mentioned in Jack Pots.
- A Pretty Game
- One Pair
- Two Pair
- Threes
- Straight
- Flush
- Full Hand
- Fours
- Straight Flush
- 4 Straight-Inside
- Nothing-Ace High
- Nothing-Ace King High
- Pair Sevens
- Three Kings
- Three Nines
- Three Aces
- Seven-High Straight
- Ace Full
- Fours
- Royal Straight Flush
- Chances to Improve the Hand by Drawing
- Pat Hands
1st edition 1895; PDF 29 pages. | 2018 / 9 / 9 | $6.00 to wish listPDF |
Saturday ReviewAuthor Unknown This is the review of Robert-Houdin's The Sharper Detected and Exposed that appeared in Saturday Review on May 9th, 1863.
1st edition 1863; PDF 5 pages. | 2018 / 8 / 23 | $2.00 to wish listPDF |
The Sharper Detected and ExposedJean Eugene Robert-Houdin The first part consists of stories about cardsharks and other crooks from Robert-Houdin's recollections. This is very readable and an entertaining part of the work. The second part explains some of the technical details of the methods used by cardsharks. However, the methods are for the most part only described in very rudimentary form. As Robert-Houdin writes himself, this is not meant as a way to teach you how to do it, but merely to give the reader insight in how the different ruses are accomplished. Nevertheless, it provides interesting insight into the ways and means of cardsharks.
| 2018 / 8 / 23 | $7.00 to wish listPDF |