Farmer, Bob: The Bammo Ten Card
Deal Dossier ©2015 Bob Farmer, Magicana Hardcover, no dj, 400 pages |
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Comments: Edited by Matthew Field and Michael Vance. Illustrated by Tony Dunn. Over 400 pages on the famous "Ten Card Poker Deal" premise.
Contents (Started with a few pages from the book ToC, finalized courtesy Denis Behr's Conjuring Archive):
1 Part One - The Ten Card Deal
3 1.1 Introduction
3 The Basic Principle
5 Statistical Analysis
6 References
6 How to Read This Book
7 Origins
7 - How Belly Strippers Work
8 Sure Fire Showdown
10 Poker
10 Baseless Speculation
11 Magic Appears
13 The Phoenix 1949
13 - The Phoenix #168 Ten Card Deal
16 - The Phoenix #170 Ten Card Deal P.S.
19 1.2 Stratagems
19 Which Cards to Use
23 Getting the Cards Into Play
24 Getting Into the Ten Card Poker Deal (David Drake)
25 Build Down (Allan Slaight)
26 Decimix (Max Maven)
27 Meet and Greet (Nicholas Johnson)
28 Spectator Does a False Cut (Stu Lewis)
28 20 Card Poker Deal (Nick Trost)
29 False Shuffles
30 Bolo Jonah
31 Aragon Attractor (Woody Aragon)
33 Forcing the Jonah
34 Odd Even (Allan Ackerman)
35 Jonumber (Max Maven)
36 Reverse Faro (Larry Becker)
36 The Beale Deal (Ken Beale)
37 Con Cam Coincidencia (R. Paul Wilson)
38 Pateo (Roy Baker)
38 Fourdoomed (Bob King
38 StayCard Principle (Mike Daniels)
39 Ten Card Second and Bottom Deals
40 - 9 as 10 Dodge
40 - 11 as 10 Dodge
41 - 12 as 10 Dodge (Petter Duffie)
41 Eighteen Cards (Nick Trost)
41 Add-Ons (Tomas Blomberg)
42 Long Card (Harry G. Franke)
42 Proposition Bet (Karl Fulves)
42 Poker Savvy (Bob Farmer)
44 Wait and Switch (Bob Farmer)
45 The Angels May Shuffle But the Devil Still Deals (Steve Mayhew)
46 CADD (Bob Farmer)
46 Luck of the Draw (Jeff Pierce, Ryan Schlutz)
46 Cheater, Cheater (Harold Cataquet)
47 Psychic Bid Spelling (Steward James)
47 Ten Card Wild (Stephen Hobbs, Robert E. Neale)
48 Porstmann's Paladin (Mike Porstmann)
49 Teleological Existentialism (Patrick Schlagel)
50 Gambler's Forecase (Peter Duffie)
50 Pretense (Max Maven)
51 Equivo-Ten (Bob Farmer)
52 Decideal (Thomas Alan Waters)
52 Ten Card Poker Stand-Up (Larry Becker)
52 Predicting the Winning Hand (Leo Boudreau)
52 Presentations
53 Jonah in Harry's Pocket (Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Anderson)
57 1.3 One Jonah (Bob Farmer)
58 Ten Card Poker Deal (Harry Lorayne)
65 The Ten Card Poker Killer (John F. Mendoza)
69 Challenge Poker Routine (Basil Horwitz)
73 Cutting For the Edge (Nichoas Johnson)
76 Tete a Tete (Jerry K. Hartman)
83 Magician Versus Gambler (Brother John Hamman)
88 The 50 Card Deal (Steve Mayhew)
80 Fished In and Chips (Bob Farmer)
90 Go Fisch (R. Paul Wilson)
91 Shooting Fish in a Barrell (Curtis Kam)
92 Scarne's $500 Poker Deal (John Scarne)
93 Twenty-Deck Poker Deal (Nick Trost)
93 Full-Deck Ten Card Poker (Nick Trost)
96 Power Poker (Bob King, Mike Porstmann)
98 Six-Card Deal (Robert E. Neale)
100 Jonah Wild (Robert E. Neale)
104 Showdown (James Swain)
106 30 Card Poker Deal
107 Mexican Poker
109 1.4 Two Jonahs
109 - Cider! (Paul Curry)
113 - Decideal (Thomas Alan Waters)
114 Second Hand (Phil Goldstein)
115 Even Money Proposition (Karl Fulves)
115 Automatic Poker (Karl Fulves)
116 Ten Card Poker Idea (Nick Trost)
117 Nick the Greek Poker Deal (Charles Nyquist)
119 Psych-Out Poker (Peter Kougasian)
120 Sweeter Cider (Lewis Jones)
122 Strong Cider (Jon Racherbaumer, Ed Marlo)
123 Double Damned (Ernest Earick)
129 Well Appointed Stud (Tom Frame)
131 Progressive Poker (R. Paul Wilson)
136 Fair Game (Peter Duffie)
138 Showdown (Nick Trost)
142 Mahtub (Rene Lavand)
146 Notes from Showdown/Mahtub
147 The Ten Card Poker Deal (Tim Ellis)
151 Rich Weelviled Brain Enigma (Bob Farmer)
154 Ha, No Jonah (Michael Weber)
155 Super Showdown (Nick Trost)
161 1.5 Eight Jonahs
161 Automatic Gambler (Nick Trost)
163 Automatic Gambler About Face (Bob Farmer)
165 The Automatic Blind Gambler (Bob Farmer)
166 The Automatic Gambler Magic Circle (Bob Farmer)
169 1.6 Eighteen Jonahs
169 Eighteen Card Poker (Nick Trost)
172 Psych Out (Bruce Bernstein)
183 Mississippi Poker (Nick Trost)
189 The Cincinnati Kid Poker Game (Tony Binarelli)
193 Strip Club (Bob Farmer)
194 - CADD
194 - Power Poker
195 - Bottom Dealing
195 - Tap Dance I
196 - Tap Dance II
197 - Tap Dance III (J.K. Hartman)
198 The Idiot Poker Plot (Robert Neale)
203 Blessed Poker (Woody Aragon)
213 1.7 The CADD Force
213 Russian Poker Rouelette (Bob Farmer)
216 Jonah You CADD (Bob Farmer)
217 How to Win at Poker (Tony Griffith)
219 - Royal Flush Variation
220 Gambler's Poker Routine (Nick Trost)
221 Histor (Jon Racherbaumer)
225 1.8 Magic Magazine
225 Introduction
225 Done Deal I Spectator Deals
227 Done Deal II Spectator Deals
227 Done Deal III Pairs
229 Done Deal IV Blind Psycho
230 Done Deal III and IV Combo
231 Done Deal V The Scam and Scram Ten Card Deal
232 - Notes (Scott Clam)
233 - Notes (R. Paul Wilson)
233 - Notes (Peter Duffie)
233 Done Deal VI
234 Done Deal VII
235 1.9 Glasgow Rules, O.K.?
235 Introduction
235 The Twenty Card Deal (Roy Walton)
237 Three Handed Ten Card Deals (Peter Duffie)
237 - Dead Beat
237 - Oblivious
238 No Palming, No Cry (Bob Farmer)
238 - Macao Marauder
239 Kismet Poker (Jonas Ljung)
245 The Last Game (David Britland)
249 The Zen Card Deal (Peter Duffie)
252 - Addition (Father Roger Crosthwaite)
253 1.10 Nine Card Hold'em
257 1.11 Ten Card Unreal
257 When Magicians Take a Principle Further Than It Should Go
257 Pabst Blue Ribbon Poker Deal (Jeff Pierce)
260 Special Poker Dice (Nick Trost)
263 Spinning Nickel Poker (Nick Trost)
265 Ten Bill Deal (Bob Farmer)
266 The Dragon and the Unicorn (Robert Neale)
269 Pizza Poker (Nick Trost)
271 Alpha Betting (Stuart James)
273 Part Two - Deals With Ten Cards
275 2.1 Absolute Power Poker Deceived Absolutely
275 The Four Queens Procedure (Bill Simon)
277 - Odd Yet Predictable (Jon Racherbaumer)
278 Solomon Is King
278 Mexican Poker (David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg)
282 The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg)
284 Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson)
288 Mexicali Ruse (J.K. Hartman)
291 Empowering Poker a Bit More (Jon Racherbaumer & Harry
Anderson)
292 Give Me Five (Lewis Jones)
293 Your Choice (Ken De Courcy)
294 242 2.0 (Joshua Jay)
302 Power Poker (Alex Elmsley)
303 Vaya Con Dios Con (Bob Farmer)
305 Double Power Poker (Nick Trost)
207 Free Will (Peter Duffie)
308 Poker Stud (Jerry K. Hartman)
312 Poker With Any Ten Cards (Colm Mulcahy)
313 2.2 Winkler Poker (Bob Farmer, Peter Winkler)
314 No-Jonah Poker
316 Ouroboros (Jack Parker)
318 Losing-End Poker (Jon Racherbaumer)
320 End Game (Bob Farmer)
320 Bottom Feeder (Brad Henderson)
321 Bottom Line (Bob Farmer)
322 Heads or Tails Hoodoo (Bob Farmer)
325 Part Three Blackjack Deals
328 Blind Man's Blackjack
329 The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Card
330 Blind Man's Blackjack Showdown
332 Power Blind Man's Blackjack
333 Absolute Power Blind Man's Blackjack
339 Table Stakes (Bob Farmer)
347 Blackjack Bonuses (Bob Farmer)
347 Face-Up Blackjack (Bob Farmer)
351 Blackjack Attack (Bob Farmer)
353 Blackjack of All Trades (Max Maven)
356 Grid and Bear It (Roy Walton)
357 Grid and Bear It II (Harold Cataquet)
358 World's Greatest Blackjack Stack (Harold Cataquet)
361 Part Four - Switches
365 The Hip Hop (J.K. Hartman)
366 The Hop Off the Bottom (Jack Merlin)
368 The Louisiana Switch (John F. Mendoza)
369 The Jinx Switch (Theo Annemann)
371 The Bebop Hop
373 The Hop Drop
375 Credits, History and Comments
377 Part Five - References
297 In Conclusion
398 Dealer Demo Easter Egg
Extra Sheet:
401 Pharaohs & Magicians
401 Porstmann's Paladin (Mike Porstmann)
402 Mike Card Deal (Michal Kociolek)