Moves in Cards: page 13

Following on from Michael Close's ground breaking series of eBooks, Ian has taken over The Work with volume 4 - The Pass. This eBook combines the detailed, structured writing for which Ian has become known with clear photographs and sixteen video clips that show every step in exacting detail. Five passes are covered, the classic pass, Ian's Simple pass, riffle pass, turnover pass and the one handed pass. As they used to say - equal to personal instruction.

[Please note that you need to use Acrobat Reader to view this eBook on PC or Mac. Foxit, Preview and other software cannot handle the video files. On iPad we tested it with PDF-Expert and on Android with ezPDF. Both apps can play the videos embedded in the PDF.]

• The Work: Palming 1: Bottom Palm and The Gambler's Cop
• The Work: Palming 2: The Top Palm
• The Work: Palming 3: The Side Steal
• The Work Volume 5

1st edition...

This ebook covers three different handlings of the top change, as well as the book change, the Erdnase change and Marlo's Snap Change. 56 photographs and 13 video clips show the moves in the kind of detail that is to be expected from Ian's teaching. All the moves have been used by Ian in the real world, so you get the level of detail that comes only from experience.

[Please note that you need to use Acrobat Reader to view this eBook on PC or Mac. Foxit, Preview and other software cannot handle the video files. On iPad we tested it with PDF-Expert and on Android with ezPDF. Both apps can play the videos embedded in the PDF.]

• The Work: Palming 1: Bottom Palm and The Gambler's Cop
• The Work: Palming 2: The Top Palm
• The Work: Palming 3: The Side Steal
• The Work Volume 4

1st edition 2010, 30 pages....

Palming - This video pack contains three video lessons on palming cards - the two handed top card palm, the one handed top card palm and the Gambler's cop. 27 minutes in total, these lessons will have you palming cards with confidence in a relatively short time.

length 27 minutes

It was none other than Channing Pollock who stepped forward with this keen endorsement of Ian Baxter's The Turnstile Pass: "Beautifully written and detailed. Yes, I recommend it! And - I just love your self-deprecating humor." A smooth card pass that enunciates the importance of using a distractive move to cover the mechanics. Three first rate effects are included as well.

The Turnstile Pass is Ian Baxter's variation of a Hermann style pass that does not require a turnover of the packet, as is typically the case with Hermann type passes. As a bonus you will get three routines using this pass: ...

The original version of the following card tutorial, "Gardner-Marlo-Webb Poker Deal," was first published in Gregg Webb's ebook, Soapbox Derby.

The package presented here includes:

• Webb's Casino-Style Zarrow Shuffle Tutorial
• Gregg's improved "Marlo-Gardner-Webb Poker Deal" using Casino Zarrow Shuffles

This is a wonderfully deceptive way to steal a card from the deck into a longitudinal palm - a Tenkai palm but with the card rotated by 90 degree - and then reproduce it super clean from the pants pocket or inside jacket pocket.

runtime: 1min 54s

Sixteen moves and card bits by Fred Kaps on video and also explained briefly in text.

1. A Flourish and a Pass
2. Square-Up Pass
3. Lap Dissolve
4. Shuffle Turnover
5. Snap-Out False Cut
6. Spin Flourish False Cut
7. Crimped Packet False Cut
8. Swivel Palm
9. Hugard Top Palm
10. Goblet Reach Palm
11. Bottom Glimpse
12. Snap Change ("Single" Card)
13. Snap Change (On Face of Deck)
14. Fadeaway Card Change
15. Aces Up!
16. Cutting to Aces

Similar product from Fred Kaps but on coins is: Kaps on Coins.

PDF 6 pages, video length 15 minutes

A play-by-play exposé of the tricks of the card sharp's trade.

Moss gives general advice on how to avoid becoming a sucker or losing more money than luck alone would explain. The most interesting part is where he describes several sleights and strategies cardsharps use to cheat at the card table. Many of the sleights are illustrated with photos.

• Introduction 5
• Meet the Enemy 7
  • Who Are the Victims?
  • Suckers
  • Addicts
  • Defeating the Enemy
  • Luck
  • Greed
  • Amateurs
  • Advice
• Modern Cheating
  • False Cut Number One
  • False Cut Number Two
  • False Cut Number Three
  • False Cut Number Four
  • A Reverse...

The first part and majority of this book deals with marked cards. It shows numerous examples of how and where to mark various back designs popular during the early 20th century in the United States. The second part briefly describes sleight-of-hand for the card cheater such as second dealing, bottom dealing, shuffling, false cuts, and mechanical hold outs. Each technique is illustrated with a photo, which is quite remarkable for a book from that time. The third and final part deals with the mathematical odds of draw poker.

Some people believe that F. R. Ritter might be S. W. Erdnase, the unknown author...

This was the advertisement booklet for Ritter's book Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. It describes the motivation of the book and shows some excerpts including four illustrations.

1st edition 1905, 9 pages; digital edition colorized.

The five techniques explained in this treatise are directly or tangentially inspired by Ed Marlo’s An Updated Force (1987).

Techniques taught are:

• An Updated Force (Ed Marlo)
• Piffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Balm-Applied Riffle Force (Steve Reynolds)
• Drop-Block Riffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Slip-Less Clip Force (Jon Racherbaumer)

1st edition 2009; 20 pages photo illustrated

Revolutionary card technique, chapter one:

Table of Contents

5. Miracle Change No. 1
8. - Method No. 1
9. - Method No. 2
10. - Method No. 3
11. - Method No. 4
12. - A Variation With Effect
14. Miracle Change No. 2
16. Miracle Change No. 3
20. A Multiple Effect
22. Follow The Ace
24. Climax Sleeving

1st edition 1954, 24 pages; PDF 26 pages.

The system of the Marlo Definite Fingertip Control explained in all its ramifications and ideas.

1st edition 1956, 1st digital edition 2013, 24 pages.

Here is a deceptive, all purpose false shuffle that every card man will be able to do. Marlo's detailed steps of instruction brings this revolutionary technique into sharp focus and also gives you some very magical effects using it. Students of card magic will find this provocative, controversial treatise an important addition to Riffle Shuffle arcana. Newcomers will be introduced to the skills and workings of front-rank card magic.

• Foreword
• Commentary
• The Shank Shuffle
• Marlo's Variations Of The Shank Shuffle
• The Work
• To Keep An Alternated Red-Black Set-Up
• The Shank Shuffle With Block...

Watch the master as he goes through advanced dealing and pass techniques, as only Eddie could. Exclusive, historical footage is now available in a digital format for the first time for serious card workers everywhere. A great line from Marlo is: "The center deal is a glorified bottom deal - that is all it is."

• Take versus Strike Seconds
• One Hand and Extended Push-Off Seconds
• Easy and No Touch Theory Seconds
• Natural Second
• On the Inward Take
• Multiple Minus Bottom
• Marlo on the Center Deal
• Inner Corner Take Bottom
• On the Bottom Deal Count
• Havana Deals
• Inward and Outward Deals
• Straddle...

Original methods for switching a card or cards.

• Rear Flat Palm
• Rear Angle Palm
• Thumb Clip Palm
• Latest Thumb Clip Palm
• Changing Palm Positions
• Flat Card Pickup
• Getting into the Palm Positions
• Methods of Unloading the X Card after the Switch: The Flexible Unload
• The Card Switch Transfer
• An Impressive Sequence
• A Simpler Sequence
• A Third Sequence
• First Switch
• Variations of the First Switch
• Marlo's Card Switch
• Additional Method for Getting into Basic Position of Rear Flat Palm required for the Marlo Card Swtich
• Methods of Disclosure
  • The Delayed Disclosure
  • The Indirect Disclosure ...

This ebook describes Marlo's techniques for the Faro Shuffle. It contains methods for executing a faro, such as The First Technique, Faro Riffle Shuffle, and The Butt Shuffle, as well as Faro Aids, such as the Fourth Finger Table and the Rock and Reweave. It also contains more complex variations, like the Off Center Faro, Above Crimp Faro, and 26th Card Faro Check.

• The Faro Shuffle
• - The First Technique
• Faro Aids
• - 26th Card Faro Check
• - The 4th Finger Table
• Faro Riffle Shuffle
• - Variations In Technique On The Faro Riffle Shuffle
• - In The Hands
• The Butt Faro
• Partial Faro Check ...

Palming cards while the cards are in action of being shuffled.

• The Action Palms
• The Shuffle Palm
• Delayed Action Palm
• The Count Cop
• Count Cop For A Number Of Cards
• Count Cop For Small Packets
• Count Cop And Transfer
• Count Cop Exchange
• Count Cop For Left Hand
• Action Palm - One Hand
• The Clip Steal
• Turn Down Palm
• Misdirection Palm
• The Cull Palm
• Cull Palm Replacement
• Pressure Fan Palm
• One Hand Palm As Action Palm
• Take Techniques For Action Palm
• Square Up Drop Palm
• Drop Cut Palm
• Double Action Palms
• The Table Edge Palm
• Pivot Bottom Steal
• Brush Palm
• Bits Of Misdirection

"Must reading for all card magicians!" - Allan Ackerman

"Outstanding!" - Darwin Ortiz

"This book should be on your shelf alongside The Expert at the Card Table, The Man Who Was Erdnase, The Annotated Erdnase, and Loaded Dice." - William P. Miesel

His name is not "Marks," but when you buy this ebook you will learn why he had to write under an alias. The ebook covers advantage play, cheating, and the moves that get the money.

"Exceptional. Controversial. Highly recommended." - Michael Dalton / Blackjack Review

"WOW! The real world of cheating and the plays that get the money." - Bob Snyder / Gaming Consultants

• Introduction
• My Credentials
• Casino Organization ...

The dark side of gambling.

"Loaded with rare, inside information." - Darwin Ortiz

"Absolutely fascinating and enlightening! Ingenious methods that boggle the mind." - Daryl

"Inside techniques exposed for the first time in print." - George Joseph / Director of Surveillance, Bally Entertainment Co.

It may be shocking and it's certainly dangerous. Nevertheless, this unique ebook represents the definitive resource on how professional con men cheat at Blackjack and other card games. The author, a former high-stakes cheater, explains an amazing array of specific moves with clear, understandable text and...

A detailed explanation and breakdown of how to back palm a playing card.

The author shows the aspiring card magician how to make playing cards appear and disappear from and into thin air using a sleight-of-hand technique known as back palming. Many photos assist in comprehending this at-first difficult-looking move. But with a bit of practice, it is within reach for any dedicated student.

This technique is typically used on stage but it can also delight in an impromptu setting close-up and it can be done with other thin flat objects besides playing cards, such as business cards, credit...

A superior force where a spectator stops the magician anywhere during a running cut. Yet, that card is forced without any sleights or slip cuts.

One of the cleanest card forces ever created. Perfect for the mentalist looking for a natural force that doesn't scream card trick. Imagine showing a regular deck of cards and repeatedly cutting them until someone tells you to stop. You very cleanly deal off the card you were stopped at and believe it or not that card was forced! Once you stop you can ask the person if he wants you to cut again. If the person says, "Yes," you cut the deck again and...

"Devin Knight has done it again. If you have ever struggled to make your double lift look and feel more natural, then look no further. I've been around the block more than a few times when it comes to finding just the right double lift, and this one is a winner. Period." - D. Ulin

"Looking at Devin's performance clip of his double lift turnover I was wondering what on the earth is he doing? Devin smoothly turned over the top card only. Now I was anxious to see his explanation - and at once I tried to follow Devin's instructions and to my surprise I could easily perform Devin's turnover...

Deck switching: The act of secretly switching one deck for another during play.

The Cold Deck is a collection of deck-switching techniques by Daniel Madison. The ebook teaches six techniques for secretly and invisibly switching the deck in play in thorough detail. It also includes Slaine, a device that holds or feeds the cold deck to the cheat without suspicion.

The following techniques are included in this ebook:

• Patch
• Slaine
• Veil
• Grit
• Ott
• Heat

1st edition 2011, 16 pages.