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Legerdemain
Card Tricks
S.W. Erdnase's
The Expert at the Card
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS
● Hold-Outs
● Prepared Cards
● Confederacy
● Two Methods of Shuffling
● Primary Accomplishments
● Possibilities of the "Blind"
● Uniformity of Action
● Deportment
● Display of Ability
● Greatest Single Accomplisment
● Effect of Suspicion
● Acquiring the Art
● Importance of Detail
TECHNICAL TERMS
ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND SHUFFLES
POSITION FOR SHUFFLE
BLIND SHUFFLES
● To Retain Top Stock
● To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
● To Retain the Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
ERDNASE SYSTEM OF BLIND RIFFLES AND CUTS
BLIND RIFFLES
● To Retain the Top Stock
● To Retain the Bottom Stock
BLIND CUTS
● To Retain Bottom Stock--Top Losing One Card
● To Retain the Complete Stock
● To Retain the Top Stock
● To Retain the Bottom Stock
● To Retain Bottom Stock. Riffle 2 and Cut 4
FANCY BLIND CUTS
● To Retain the Complete Stock-1
● To Retain the Complete Stock-2
FANCY TRUE CUT--ONE-HANDED
TO INDICATE THE LOCATION FOR THE CUT
● This is Located by the Crimp
● This is Located by the Jog
● This is Located by the Crimp
● This is located by the jog
BOTTOM DEALING AND SECOND DEALING
● Bottom Dealing
● Top and Bottom Dealing with one Hand
● Second Dealing
ORDINARY METHODS OF STOCKING, LOCATING AND SECURING
STOCK SHUFFLE
ERDNASE SYSTEM OF STOCK SHUFFLING
● Two-Card Stock
● Three-Card Stock
● Four-Card Stock
● Five-Card Stock
● Twelve-Card Stock--For Draw Poker
● Euchre Stock--Four-Handed Ga