BOOK- Card Mastery + Expert At the Card Table

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Two advanced books on card sleights and skills, now in one convenient package.
Gives you both the classic work and the new ideas at your fingertips.

CARD MASTERY
Written by Michael MacDougall
Includes new sleights, new methods of culling and stacking, a new bottom steal, and more.
MacDougall explains methods and stunts for use in Gambling Expose acts, including the “Seven Hands Of Satan” poker deal.
CONTENTS:
A Grand Opening
Seven Hands Of Satan
CHAPTER ONE: DEALING SECONDS
A Striking Second
The Double Dealing Second
For Experts Only
Extra Fancy Seconds
One Handed Second
Tricky "Thirds"
CHAPTER TWO: CARD IDENTIFICATION
Knick Knacks
Poker Player's Paradise
Peek-A-Boo
Gambler's Glimpse
CHAPTER THREE: SUBWAY DEALING
Two-Handed Bottoms
One-Handed Bottoms
Confounding the Critics
CHAPTER FOUR: CULLING AND STACKING
Correct Culling
The Bottom Cull
The Top Cull
The Riffle Stack
Stacking in Ten-Handed Poker
Unwanted Extra Top Card
The Interlacing Riffle
The Haymaker
Cheating Cheaters
CHAPTER FIVE: SHIFTS AND CUTS
The Two-Handed Shift
The One-Handed Shift
The Cutless Cut
The Crimp
The Bridge
The Snap Crimp
CHAPTER SIX: PALMING AND STEALING
The Top Palm
The Multiple Top Palm
The Bottom Steal
An Extra Card
CHAPTER SEVEN: FALSE SHUFFLES
The Overhand False Shuffle
The Push-Through Riffle
The Pull-Through Riffle
The Triple Cut
CHAPTER EIGHT: TWO SMART SLEIGHTS
The Center Deal
Switching the Hole Card

EXPERT AT THE CARD TABLE
The Expert at the Card Table is arguably the most famous and the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables.

For well over a century, this book has been considered to be THE indispensable reference to attaining the highest level of card mastery.
In it, S.W. Erdnase, a supreme master of card manipulation, teaches card enthusiasts how to perform the dazzling tricks and sleights-many of them how own creations-that made him a legend.

The first section of the book deals with "card table artifice", or, to put it more bluntly, cheating at cards.
Step by step, Erdnase demonstrates his own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, and dealing from the bottom, as well as such slick moves as palming cards, "skinning the hand," and even Three Card Monte.

The second section covers legerdemain, or sleight of hand with cards.
Erdnase includes the skills of forcing a card, one- and two-hand transformations, the devious "slide" and more.
Card handlers will love Erdnase's selection of dazzling card tricks, including The Acrobatic Jacks, The Exclusive Coterie, The Divining Rod, The Invisible Flight, an Incredible Mind Reading Trick and much more.

Despite his widespread influence on the magic community, the author's identity remains an unsolved mystery.
Many believe his real name was E.S. Andrews (S.W. Erdnase spelled backwards).
Another theory is that the author was Wilbur E. Sanders, son of Senator Wilbur F. Sanders.
W.E. Sanders is an anagram of S. W. Erdnase, and Sanders had the education, knowledge of magic, and familiarity with gambling necessary to write the book.