An instructive warning to those who must play for stakes. Interesting amusement for those who do not.
Excerpt from the Foreword:
This book is an explanation of the fundamental principles upon which all card sharping is based.
Once the main ideas are thoroughly understood, it becomes a comparatively easy matter to detect any subterfuge no matter how intricate.
This book is nicely illustrated by Charles Remmers from photographs by the author. It contains a description of cheating at the popular Australian game of Two-Up which makes it unique.
- Foreword
- Spotlight On The Card-Sharp
- Slipping The Cut
- Bridging And False Cutting
- False Shuffling
- Palming
- Dealing From The Bottom Of The Pack
- Stacking
- Dice Games And Two Up
1st edition 1933, 63 pages; PDF 31 pages.
word count: 11661 which is equivalent to 46 standard pages of text