This is a compilation of two booklets that gambling house supply companies sold. The first part, Master Key, describes various ways playing cards can be marked. Illustrations of many marking methods and systems are included. Some of these methods go under the names of shade, glaze, block-out, line, build-up, trim, sorts, etch, swell natural or edge work, and others. The author of this section is unknown. It appears to be culled from various gambling house supply catalogs.
The second part, Run-Up Systems, was culled without credit from S. W. Erdnase's famous book The Expert at the Card Table. It explains several methods of stacking poker hands and some false shuffles.
- Note
- Master Key Systems
- Foreword To Master Key Systems
- Complete Treatise Illustrating Manner To Detect And Read All Coded Cards, Factory Marked, Etc.
- Bee 67
- Trim Work Sometimes Called Sorts
- Shading
- Daub
- Needle Pricks And Crimps
- Not Alone On Bee Cards
- Bicycle Cards
- Border Trim
- Edge Or Margin Work
- Run Up Systems
- Foreword
- Shuffling
- Blind Shuffling
- Terms-Definitions
- Blind Shuffles
- Stocking
- To Retain Top Stock
- Retain Top Stock And Shuffle Whole Deck
- Retain The Bottom Stock And Shuffle Whole Deck
- Stacking, Locating And Securing
- Bottom Run-Up Shuffle
- Improved, Stacking Shuffle
- Cull Shuffling
1st edition ~1920s, PDF 35 pages.
word count: 13261 which is equivalent to 53 standard pages of text
