Woodfield, Bill; Frank Csuri (Editor):
Gambling and Magic Notes ©1961 Frank Csuri Softcover, stapled-manuscript, 8.5x11", 51 pages |
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Comments: From the cover, "The material in this manuscript is based on letters to and from Bill as noted. Access to the letters was arranged by Charlie Miller and completed in 1961 plus and minus six months.
Contents: (courtesy juntamagic, magicbooks.be, numbers are not page numbers):
1 Shuffle Reverse
2 Reverse
3 Push - In - Force
4 Bottom Palm
5 Roving Break
6 Slip Cut In Hand
7 Card Force
8 Riffle Run-Ups
9 Cover For Glimpse
10 Edge Crimp
11 Shift
12 Telephone Trick
13 Color Card
14 The Card Thru
15 Torn Card
16 Card In Envelope
17 The Fifth Card
18 The Key Card 5
19 Double Back Routine
20 Blindfold Poker Deal
21 Spell and Eliminate
22 Cards To Pocket
23 Cutting Any Four Of A Kind
24 Holdout
25 Rising Cards
26 Reverse Location
27 E-Z Bill In Cigarette
28 Hatch Routine
29 One Hand Seconds
30 Three Card Monte
31 False Cut
32 Gambler's Seven Hand Deal
33 Stickman’s Dice Cooler
34 Shirt Switch
35 Switch
36 Switch(2)
37 Crotch Switch
38 Stovepipe Switch
39 Wastebasket Switch
40 Sport Coat Switch
41 Dice Switch
42 Cross On Whip Box
43 Punch Deal
44 Strippers.
45 Novel Bottom Deal
46 The Break Off
47 Palming At The Card Table
48 The Invisible Table Shift
49 Scott’s Second Deal
50 Scott’s Bug
51 Bean Shooter Holdout
52 Transferring Break
53 False Cut (Bottom Stock)
54 Flat Palm
55 Monte Move
56 One Hand Bottom
57 Coin Control
58 Poker Stack
59 Milk Shuffle
60 Cut Location
61 Stripper Stack
62 Stat Force
63 Four Card Force
64 Ace Load
65 Cutting The Aces
66 Rubber Finger Charley
67 Scarne's Cooler
68 Adding A Group Of Cards
69 Steel Claw
70 Three Card Monte
71 Four Ace Trick
72 Table Change
73 Drunken Man’s Hand
74 Slip Cut Demonstration
75 Coin Flipping
76 Black Jack Move
77 Blindfold Poker Deal
78 Double Torn
79 The Skipper
80 Shuffle Crimp
81 The Bottom Card Bridge
82 Break Dealing
83 Rubber Cut N. C.
84 Double Discard A. Lyle
85 Card Bets Jacoby
86 Telephone Trick H. Mendoza
87 Poker Switch R. Wade
88 Signals S. V. Innis
89 Acid Marking S. V. Innis
90 Stud Bottom Deal C. Nyquist
91 Fake Envelope D. Abbott
92 Jumping Card O'Leary
93 "DOC" Daley's Aces
94 Black Jack Stack
95 Two Pair Stocks
96 A Cull Shuffle
97 Cull Stocking
98 Stock Clean Out
99 Poker Switch (Gambler's)
100 Deck Switch (Gambler1s)
101 Second Deal
102 Sticky Thumb
103 Stiff Thumb
104 End Seconds
105 Double Dealing
106 The Spread
107 Partners
108 Race Cards
109 Stud Move
110 Two Red Aces (gambler's)
111 Ace Control
112 Peeking
113 Transferring Break
114 Ace Move
115 Pan Vanish
116 Dice Switch
117 Burning The Dice
118 Coin Tarn
119 Steel Claw
120 Hold Oats
121 Strips
122 White Plash
123 Daub
124 Cut Oat Ink
125 Plastic Cards
126 Notes