The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation (Dover Magic Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486285979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don the Baptist said I was completely satisfied. The best quote of the book is found. A Review by Don the Baptist of the text – The Expert at the Card Table – by S. W. Erdnase.With so much literal trash on the market today, pleasingly, this text, The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, seems to actually deliver what was promised.While I am no expert at cards and have no desire to become one, this work offers 1I was completely satisfied. The best quote of the book is found A Review by Don the Baptist of the text – The Expert at the Card Table – by S. W. Erdnase.With so much literal trash on the market today, pleasingly, this text, The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, seems to actually deliver what was promised.While I am no expert at cards and have no desire to become one, this work offers 130 pages of instructions on how one might gain the “advantage” (cheat) at the card table. Beyond this, roughly half the text is directed t. 0 pages of instructions on how one might gain the “advantage” (cheat) at the card table. Beyond this, roughly half the text is directed t. THE classic of card magic Jeremy What can you say about this book that hasn't been said 100 times before? In just 130 short pages (under half of which are specifically devoted to magic), S. W. Erdnase redefined card magic. I am very much an amateur, but am familiar enough to recognize nearly everything in the book, including some entire routines (Ricky Jay, for instance, does a version of "The Exclusive Coterie" in which he recites the pages-long patter from this book word for word). Further starting to practice some of the. A Valuable Reference Improved! DVHarris This edition contains the classic, original text, improved with larger pictures, while maintaining the first edition's pagebreaks. Add to this a comprehensive index, and what's not to love? An indispensable reference for any card worker, and as valuable today as ever!
Erdnase, a supreme master of card manipulation, teaches card enthusiasts how to perform the dazzling tricks and sleights — many of them his own creations — that made him famous.The first section of the book deals with card table artifice, or, to put it more bluntly, cheating at cards. Card handlers will love Erdnase's selection of dazzling card tricks, including The Acrobatic Jacks, The Exclusive Coterie, The Divining Rod, The Invisible Flights, A Mind Reading Trick, and many others.In an informative Foreword to this edition, Martin Gardner relates the unhappy details of the author's personal life, and recounts the history of this famous book, whose methods, Mr. "The Expert at the Card Table is the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables." —from the Foreword by Martin Gardner.For almost a century, this book has been considered indispensable to attaining the highest level of card mastery. In it, S. Erdnase demonstrates his own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom, and such slick moves as palming cards, "skinning the hand" — even three-card monte.The second section covers legerdemain: the art of forcing a card, one- and two-hand transformations, the devious "slide" and more. Gardner asserts, "are as use