Stephen Hobbs: Gene Maze and the Art of Bottom Dealing
Hobbs, Stephen: Gene Maze and the Art of Bottom Dealing
©1994 Stephen Hobbs
Hardcover, w/dj, 197 pages
Hobbs: Gene Maze and the Art of Bottom Dealing
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Contents (courtesy Denis Behr's ConjuringArchive):

ix Introduction (Richard Kaufman)
xi Foreword (Darwin Ortiz)
xiii Preface (Stephen Hobbs)
xiv Acknowledgement (Gene Maze)

2 Chapter One Bottom Deal Technique & Theory
2 Basic Bottom Deal
15 Underhand Stud Bottom Deal
23 Double Deal
27 Back-Take Bottom Deal

32 Chapter Two One Hand & Center Deal Technique
32 One Handed Bottom Deal
39 Maze Center Deal

48 Chapter Three Additional Sleights
48 Table Replacement Control
52 Push-Through Subtlety
55 Second Deal Lap
57 Unit Grip

62 Chapter Four Introductory Routines for the Bottom Deal
62 Triple Threat
63 The Zodiac Card
66 Odd Man Out
67 Cased Lightning
70 Miss-Matched

74 Chapter Five Routines With the Underhand Stud Bottom Deal
74 Match-Missed
76 MindBreaker
80 Follow the Joker
82 Passing Through
86 Return Trip
90 Double Deal Aces
92 Magnetic Attaction
93 Open-Face Poker Stock
95 Inverted Poker
98 Big Oversight
104 Duo-Mental
106 Mated
109 "5&10, Not the Store"
112 Face-Up Locator
114 Toss-In
116 Caught In the Act
118 Sympathetic Thougths Passing Through
120 Criss-Cross
123 The Flying Color Change
128 Mirror Image
130 Center Deal Mated - Nos. 1 & 2
132 Control of the Colors
137 Hard Way Poker
140 A Touch of the Mentalist
146 Daley's Ghost
148 The Mexican Turnover - Maze Handling
151 Ace to Five Reprise
154 Maze Cards Across
158 Wild Card Nos. 1 & 2
166 Blockbuster Aces
168 Ezam Aces
171 Going Up!
173 Uncle Charlie's Aces
176 Mercury Aces
181 Maze's Progressive Aces
189 Disassembly of the Aces

192 Select Bibliography with Annotations


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