Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE Sleights The Strip A Blind Riffle Shuffle "The Force That Couldn't Be" Domico Double Lift The Exchange Greek Shift Greek Shift?Buckley's Method Hindu Shift Vernon's Multiple Shift Multiple Shift?Buckley's Method Buckley's Slap Shift Buckley's Single Card Shift Shifting a Card from the Bottom of the Pack Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Top Stock Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Bottom Stock Buckley's Out of This World False Shuffle and Cut Buckley's Method of Secretly Placing a Bridge Sighting or Glimpsing the Top Card Sighting the Top Card ? Second Method Sighting the Top Card ? Third Method Sighting the Top Card ? Fourth Method Improved Peek Sighting After the Peek Turnover Sight Location Stepping After the Peek Other Locations After the Peek The Slide The Invisible Location Buckley's Reverse Sighting While Cutting the Pack The Glide The Glide ? Second Method The Glide Location Buckley's Method of Sighting While Fanning the Cards Glimpsing the Bottom Card Buckley's Diagonal Location The Break Shuffle Buckley's Method for Dealing Seconds Domico Location Cardini's Location The Count False Count for More False Count for Less The Side Steal Palm The Side Steal Palm ? Buckley's Method Original Methods of Palming Cards form the Bottom of the Pack Palming form the Bottom After the Riffle Shuffle The Perfect Card Palm The Replacement Buckley's Multiple Card Palm Steal Overhand Shuffle and Multiple Shift Buckley's Double Peek Location Shuffle and Palm Buckley's Top Palm Slide Off Berg's Top Palm The Allerton Top Palm One Hand Top Palm ? Judson Cole Palm Off the Second Top Card While Top Card Is Visibly Drawn Onto the Pack To Palm Off the Top of the Pack an Exact Number of Cards Up to Ten To Palm One or Several Cards The Fan Location The Fan Location Amplified A Novel Palm Changing a Card in the Act of Turning the Card Over The Throw Change Buckley's Method of Double Cutting Cards to the Top of the Pack John Brown Cook's Transfer of a Card Hindu Shuffle and Cut Location "The "Pass" False Shuffle Par Excellence Another Method of Reversing a Card Extraordinary Queens A Different Top Change (mass hypnotism) An Amazing Location One Hand Crimp The Count (Second Method) The Palm Unsurpassed (Original) Bottom Palm of a Single Card (Original) The Top Palm (Improved Method) The Glide Shift CHAPTER TWO Conjuring at the Card Table Foreword False Table Riffle Shuffle False Table Riffle Shuffle and Cut The Push Through Simplified "Cut, Riffle Shuffle and Retain the Top Stock" The Shift and Shuffle Bottom Stock Blind Riffle Retaining the Stock The Switch at Draw Poker The Cut and Use of the Bridge Dealing from the Bottom Restoring the Cut Second Method ? The Drop Third Method Bottom Stock Shift Restoring the Cut (My Pet Method) A Cute False Cut Running Up Two Hands The Hold Out and Pick Up Builds Demonstration Build of Four Aces Using the Buckley Double Cuts A Cold Deck Warmed Up The Practical Sharper Knowing Your Opponent's Hole Card The Spread A Strike (Method of Dealing Seconds) Second Dealing (Black Jack Method) Dealing Seconds (Double Push-Off One Hand) An Original Method of Restoring the Cut (Fourth Method) CHAPTER THREE Manipulations A Vanish of a Card from the Top of the Pack The Bent Fingers Back Palm and Recovery A Back Palm with Open Fingers Production from the Palm A Card Vanishes Push Down Vanish A Card Vanishes and Reappears at the Very Tips of the First and Second Fingers The Change Over The Thumb Palm Move The Slide Up Vanish Fan Vanish A Fan of Cards Disappears A Very Pretty and Deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation The Steal Reverse Palming Without Swinging the Arm and Also Without Using the Thumb "Back Palm" a Pack of Fifty-Two Cards and Produce Them in a Series of Fans at the Fingertips" Paul le Paul Reversal Lighting Music CHAPTER FOUR Experiments with Cards 1 Transposition 2 Confusion 3 Do You See Red? 4 Matching Pairs 5 The Lost Aces 6 The Convexed Aces 7 Charlier Location and Speller Effect 8 Card Through the Case 9 Unexpected Ending 10 Birds of a Feather 11 Simplicity 12 Next to Yours 13 Four Chances ? A Novel Card Location 14 Naming the Top Card 15 A Gambler's Aid 16 A Card Gets Out of Hand 17 Difficult Routine 18 Lost and Found 19 Mysterious Marker 20 Black Jacks 21 The Ladies and the Deuces 22 Another Transposition 23 The Ambitious Card 24 The Mix-Up 25 Wishful Thinking 26 Color Memory 27 Think of a Number 28 A Brilliant Climax 29 An Ace Introduction 30 The Aces and the Chosen Card 31 Quintuplets 32 The Slop Over Card Location 33 Card and Pocket Mystery 34 Your Favorite Ace 35 The Double Surprise 36 Chivalrous Kings and the Four Ladies 37 A Quickie 38 Four Aces Par Excellence 39 The Obtrusive Queens 40 The Illusive Transfer