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 in performing and demonstrating this sucker effect. Learn everything about it in this digital reproduction, either to be aware of the various ways this can be played and thus be protected, or to learn to perform it for entertainment purposes.
From the preface by Nate Leipzig:
For those who are not acquainted with Mr. John Scarne, I wish to say that he is the most expert exponent of wonderful card effects and table work I have ever seen in my life. I have met and known personally some very fine performers, both amateurs and professionals. But I have yet to see such fine work and originality as Mr. Scarne has command of.
In this book Mr. Scarne has covered everything there is to know about Three Card Monte, it being to the best of my knowledge the only work ever produced on this particular subject. Apart from one or two fundamental principles employed in the original form of the trick, practically all of the effects, dodges, subtleties, come-on ideas, etc., are original with Mr. Scarne.
Table of Contents
- What A Great Magician Has To Say About Scarne
- Contents
- Definition Of Gambling Terms
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Grifter's Signals
- The Call Method
- The Hand Method
- The Head Method
- Familiar Phrases In Gambling
- Hipe
- Shills Or Cappers
- Money Bag
- Under-Throw
- Over-Throw
- Three Card Monte
- A Series Of Deceptive Moves
- Bent Or Crimped Corner Grifter Method
- The Flip (?)
- The Flip Change
- Moves With Flip And Flip-Change
- Grifter's Marked Corner Using The Flip And Flip-Change
- Scarne's Monte Slide
- Scarne's Triple Climax
- Scarne's Method Of The Crimped Corner
- Scarne's Marked Corner
- The Stamped Ace-Scarne's Method
- Scarne's Method Of Torn Corner
- Scarne's Push Over Change
- The Mexican Turn Over
- The Daub
1st edition ~1930s, 42 pages.
word count: 8759 which is equivalent to 35 standard pages of text
