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Marvelous treasury of card magic presents exact details of 155 professional card tricks that anyone can learn. Card wizard John Scarne reworked these tricks to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand. Simple instructions and clear diagrams illustrate Houdini's "Card on the Ceiling," Blackstone's "Card Trick Without Cards," Milton Berle's "Quickie Card Deal," more.
The author presents the stories of lesser known inventors without whom such men as Fulton might not have become famous.
Scarne was often proclaimed by experts, magicians and editors of the time as the greatest card manipulator of all time. He was an expert at poker, blackjack, backgammon and any other game played at casinos. Scarne's famous card trick was "Scarne's Aces". Taking a spectator's shuffled deck of cards and then cutting to all four aces.
If he's had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of ail time. Instead the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling "the devils tool" put his extraordinary gifts to far different purposes. He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers (as a magician he vied with Houdini) his brilliant mathematical mind, and his fascination with carnival and gambling life, to become America's number one authority on gambling and odds. He is the greatest living practitioner and analyst of card and slight of hand ( his artistry impressed FDR as well as underworld overlords). He has been consultant to the top casi...
Read minds! Make objects disappear and then reappear! One of the great magicians of all time reveals how to perform 200 masterful deceptions without training or special equipment to audiences of all sizes.
A classic in its field, this is the essential, all-inclusive guide to today's card games, including poker, bridge, baccarat, solitaire, and dozens of others, as well as histories and variations in the games, odds, and tips on how to detect cheating.
The gambling expert reveals the secrets and strategies you need to increase your enjoyment and winnings at the world's most popular card game. Scarne lays down the rules of all 117 forms of poker, including the latest variations like Texas Hold 'Em.
Illustrated facts and figures about U. S. gambling.