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Expert Card Mysteries

1975 Paperback

Alton Sharpe

Author

Editor:
- Alan Keith
Publisher:
- Louis Tannen
Illustrator:
- Marty Williams

Contents

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#	Title	Type
5	Preface	Preface
7	Introduction	Introduction
9	Dedication	Preface
10	Acknowledgment	Preface
11	Part One: Novel Sleights and Techniques	Section
13	Bottom Reverse	Technique
A sleight for secretly reversing one or more cards during a riffle shuffle. Four handlings are given by Buckley, Irving, Fechter, and Marlo.
17	Multiple Glide Jack Avis	Technique
Jack Avis's variation of the classic Glide that allows the magician to remove cards from the bottom of the deck deceptively, useful in place of the standard glide.
17	Take Me Robert Parrish	Technique
A bold force in which the spectator cuts off a portion of the deck and another spectator takes the top card from the cut — which is always the force card.
18	Ultima Wilfrid Jonson	Technique
A two-step color change of the bottom card of the pack. The face card visibly changes once, then changes again with no movement of either hand.
19	Fay's Gambling Methods	Section
A collection of professional gambling sleights from "State Street Eddie" Fay, a Denver sharper, including peeking, capping, second dealing, and the cold deck switch.
20	Peek and Deal Eddie Fay	Technique
A method for glimpsing the top card of the deck as it is dealt — the "Glimmer" or "Peek Mirror" applied in the cleanest, most practical handling for poker work.
23	Capping the Deck Eddie Fay	Technique
A sleeve-based aid for "capping" — secretly switching cards onto the top of the deck — using a horse-hair netting device hidden in the coat sleeve.
25	Second Dealing Eddie Fay	Technique
Eddie Fay's professional method for dealing the second card from the top while appearing to deal the top card, used in poker hand demonstrations.
26	Eddie's Hop Eddie Fay	Technique
A method for "hopping" or invisibly switching one half of the deck under cover of placing a poker chip — used to substitute a stacked pack for the played one.
28	Omega Pavano	Trick
The spectator peeks at any card. After by-play with a Joker, the magician produces both a written prediction naming the peeked card and the card itself.
30	Omega, Sr. Alton Sharpe	Trick
Alton Sharpe's reworking of "Omega" with simplified handling and improved presentation flow.
31	Chango-Chango Robert Parrish	Trick
Two cards are selected and shuffled back. Two indifferent cards are shown — and snap-changed in the magician's hand into the two selections, even with marked cards.
33	Perfect False Riffle Shuffle - Addition Ken Krenzel	Technique
Ken Krenzel's improvement on Marlo's perfect false riffle shuffle, adding a single-card riffle action that strengthens the visual illusion.
34	Reacting Riffle Charles Aste Jr.	Technique
Charles Aste's elaborate three-stage card change sequence, blending the Vernon "New Theory Second Deal" with Marlo and Aste handlings.
35	Super Stop Stunner Charles Aste Jr.	Trick
A "stop" trick variant: cards are dealt singly until the spectator says "stop," and the card produced at that moment is the selection — using a nipped palm.