Merlin, Jack: Merlin at the Card
Table ©1928 Jack Merlin, The Welworth Company, IA Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 24 pages |
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Comments: Section Two (of Three) of "and a Pack of Cards".
Edited by A.W.C. Brumfield.
The other sections are Merlin's Master Manipulations, and
Merlin's Master Miracles. These three manuscripts were
later republished as a single volume "And a Pack of Cards"
Contents:
2 A Routine of Sleights at the Card Table: for a small gathering
4 Three Card Monte: with the real throw
6 The Riffle Stack: running up a hand of poker
6 Fake Cuts on the Table
7 A Barefaced Method
7 Herrmann Pass as a Slip for the Cut
7 Fake Runn Up
8 Audacity Run Up
9 Using the Spread as a Trick
10 The Hop Off the Bottom
10 Topping the Pack
11 A Bottom Run Up
12 False Shuffle Using Outjog and Haymow Shuffle
12 False Shuffle
12 To Name the Hole Cards in a Stud Game
13 Peep In Conjunction With the Second or Bottom as an Aid
13 Bottom Deal as Used in a Game
13 The Story of the Cold Deck
15 To Deal Four Aces From Any Man's Pack
16 The Shooting of Pete McGuff
17 Master Poker Dealing
19 Exhibition Poker Feat
19 Pinochle
20 A Simple Run Up for Pinochle
21 Bridge-Whist
22 Challenge Bridge Demonstration
23 Glossary
24 Editorial Note (A.W.C. Brumfield)