Expert Card Technique ebook
Expert Card Technique by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue (3rd Edition) ebook
Note: This 3rd edition of ECT has two chapters not in the earlier editions (Dover reprinted the earlier edition and doesn’t have these).
BOOK CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
NOMENCLATURE
PART 1. SLEIGHTS
CHAPTER 1. THE SECRET LIFTS
Double lift
Triple and quadruple lifts
Lift get-ready
Lift
- Double lift in action
- Triple and quadruple lifts in action
Double lift turnover, a, b
One hand push-off
CHAPTER 2. FALSE DEALS
Second deal
Push-off second deal
- a. The left hand grip
- b. The deal
- c. The push-off stud poker deal
- d. As a false table count
Strike second deal
Bottom deal
- a. The left hand
- b. The right hand
- c. The deal
Middle deal a, b, c, d, e
Double deal
- Second method
CHAPTER 3. THE SIDE SLIP
Two methods, a, b
Two covers for the side slip
Malini's side slip
Delayed side slip
Bottom side slip
CHAPTER 4. THE PASS
Invisible turn-over pass
Zingone perfect table pass, Luis Zingone
Flesh grip pass
Jog pass
Braue pass
Charlier pass
- a. Color change
- b. To control a card
Finger palm pass improved
CHAPTER 5. PALMING
Braue diagonal tip-up palm
Swing palm, Frederick Braue
Thumb-count palm
Face card palm, a, b
Crosswise palm
New vertical palm
Gamblers' squaring palm
Gamblers' flat palm, a, b
Hugard top palm
Flip-over palm
Hofzinser bottom palm
Braue bottom palm
- Delaying the Braue bottom palm
Zingone bottom palm, a, b, Luis Zingone
Three cards across, Luis Zingone
CHAPTER 6. FALSE SHUFFLES
Perfect riffle shuffle, a, b
Strip-out false shuffle, Charles Miller
Hindu shuffle variation
False shuffle retaining top stock
Gamblers' false shuffle
- Retaining top stock
System of stock shuffling
Off the table false riffle shuffle
CHAPTER 7. FALSE CUTS
False running cut, a, b
Gamblers' false cut
Gambler's false cut, bottom stock
CHAPTER 8. CHANGES
Fadeaway card change
Slide top change
Throw top change
Tip-over change
Push-in change
Drop switch
CHAPTER 9. CRIMPS
Regular crimp
Little finger crimp
Gamblers' crimp
Peek crimp
Card marking crimp
CHAPTER 10. THE SPECTATOR PEEK
Spectator peek improved
Spectator peek - the last word
After the spectator peek
CHAPTER 11. THE GLIMPSE
A new glimpse
Glimpsing a card
Top card glimpse
Gamblers' glimpse
Glimpse after the peek, a, b
Cover for the glimpse
- a. Gamblers' method for a single card
- b. One card
- c. Several cards
CHAPTER 12. THE JOG
Side jog
Jog at the break
- An alternative method
Automatic jog No. I
Automatic jog No. II
Automatic jog No. III
CHAPTER 13. THE REVERSE
Facing the deck
Righting the faced deck
Automatic reverse
Righting a reversed bottom card
Facing the bottom card
Faced deck turnover
CHAPTER 14. SUNDRY SLEIGHTS
Vesting a card
Zingone thumbnail gauge, Luis Zingone
A cutting discovery, Luis Zingone
Separating the colors
Setting a key card, Jean Hugard
The five card quibble
Emergency card stabbing
Drop control
The tap
Single card bridge, Charles Miller
A new glide
Establishing a break from a bridge
Transfer of thumb-count break to little finger
Ruffle return
Bridge location
- Bertram's method
- A variation: Fifty years later
Mexican turnover
Spread cull
The double-face
Gambler's card marking system
CHAPTER 15. THE REAR PALM
Nature of the palm
Rear palming top card
The bottom rear palm
Rear palm side slip
Little finger push-out
Replacement
Rear palm exchange
In lieu of the double lift
Using the rear palm
CHAPTER 16. THE PERFECT FARO SHUFFLE
The shuffle
The endless belts
Chart of seventeen
Perfect shuffle stock
The eighteenth card
Braue poker deal
Royal flush deal
Dishonesty at its apogee
A bridge deal
At the top
Double less one
PART 2. FLOURISHES
Interlocked production, Cliff Green
- The actual flourish
The color change
Impossible color change
Covinous color change
The pressure fan
A fan flourish
Springing the cards - new method
Top and bottom changes
There it is!
PART 3. TECHNIQUE
Secret addition of cards to the pack, a, b, c
Replacement of palmed cards, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i
The palm in action
Covering a palm
- I. Top palm - right hand
- II. Bottom palm - left hand
- III. Either hand
Secret count
- I. Side count
- II. Top thumb count
- III. Bottom thumb count
- IV. Overhand count
Forcing
- Classic force
- Fan force
- Table spread force
- Perfect score card force
- Using a force
The multiple force
Four card force
The lost card
- I. The fan and riffle
- II. The fan, a, b
A second method
The prearranged pack
- Arranging the set-up pack
- Assembling the pack
- Shuffling the cards
- The spectator shuffle
- Using the pack
- Locating the cards
PART 4. TRICKS WITH CARDS
CHAPTER 1. THE RISING CARDS
Hugard rising cards, Jean Hugard
Mesmerised cards, Charles Miller
One-hand plunger rising cards, Frederick Braue
Two-hand plunger rising cards, Frederick Braue
Witchcraft card rise, Jack McMillen
CHAPTER 2. SELECTED TRICKS
The Zingone spread, Luis Zingone
The gamblers outwitted, Paul Rosini
A Rosi-crucian mystery, Paul Rosini
Two-six-four, Dai Vernon
The mind mirror, Jack McMillen
Predestined choice, Charles Miller
Reading the cards of any deck, Jean Hugard
Dexterous fingers, Charles Miller
CHAPTER 3. BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Merlin's lost aces, Jack Merlin
Ace affinity
Ace assembly
- The old method
- The new method
Anent the Bertram aces
Streamlining the sympathetic aces
The "slap" aces
Le Temps four aces
Passe-passe aces
Migratory aces
Solo flight aces, Charles Miller
Nomad aces, Charles Miller
Charles Miller aces
Cops and robbers - a variation
CHAPTER 4. ROUTINES
Five star finale
The razzle dazzler
- An expert at figures
- Mercury's card
- A card for Pegasus
- The card in the shoe
Five card routine
- I. Dai Vernon's mental force
- II. The princess card trick
- III. Five card royale
- IV. Phantaso
CHAPTER 5. ONE HAND CARD MAGIC
An automatic reverse
A rapid reverse
The impromptu magician
A second method
Three in one
You see? Harold Lloyd
One hand fan
CHAPTER 6. THE AMBITIOUS CARD
First phase
Using double lift turnup, a
Pop-up card
Ambitious twins
Ambitious card move
Cover for the ambitious card double lift
Omnipresent eight
CHAPTER 7. USING THE DOUBLE AND TRIPLE LIFTS
Invisible transit, Jean Hugard
Transposition extraordinary
Telepathic card
Transposition
Boy meets girl
CHAPTER 8. DISCOVERIES
The card in the shoe
Rub-a-dub-dub
The card through the magazine
Mercury's card
Folding a card
Card for Pegasus
Danbury deviler, Charles Miller
Double discovery
Everywhere and nowhere, Frederick Braue
Lazy man's card to pocket, Jack McMillen
Vanishing pack
Double leaper
Dunbury delusion, Charles Miller
Obliging card
Impromptu location
CHAPTER 9. MENTAL DISCOVERIES
Think of a card, Paul Rosini
Wheel location
Psycho-intelligence
Psychic stop!
Ultima Thule location
Incredible location
Crystal thought
Mental selectivity, Charles Miller
Ponsin on thought reading
The risk location
CHAPTER 10. REVERSES
Cagliostro cuts the cards
A quick reversal
Faced deck reverse location
Reverse supreme, Luis Zingone
CHAPTER 11. SPELLING
Multi-spelling trick
Cards on parade
CHAPTER 12. DOUBLE-FACED CARDS
Hardin plus Devant
- Second Method
Mechanical four aces
The radioactive aces
The torn and restored card
CHAPTER 13. THE STRANGER CARD
Preamble
Torn and restored card
The ghost card, Theo Annemann
Where is it?
Through the table top
- Second method
Everywhere and nowhere
A stranger in the house
The red-black transmigration, Jean Hugard
Touch and go, Jean Hugard
Run around aces
Introducing the stranger
Forcing a stranger card
Double-faced cards
Joker-specimen card
CHAPTER 14. SELF-WORKING TRICKS
It must be magic
Tricky quickie
The numerological card
Matching the packets
The seventh son
Hocus-pocus card
Do as I do. New presentation
Contrary do as I do, Bert Allerton
Twenty-sixth location
Unwitting magician
Magic of nine
Certain card trick
PART 5. MISCELLANY
Peeling cards
Making double-faced and double-backed cards
Shiners
The spectator peek
One will make six
Audacity peek
Card to pocket
Svengali shuffle
Charlier shuffle
Matchbook easel
Kaufman card stand, Gerald Kaufman
Second deal aid
False counts and deals
- To deal four as three
- A false count
- False table deal
Magic powder v. rabbit's foot
- The carbon card
- Daub
- Set-ups
The card at any number
- Moistening a card
The pass
Left hand bottom replacement
PART 6. MISDIRECTION AND PRESENTATION
CHAPTER 1. MISDIRECTION
CHAPTER 2. PRESENTATION
The presentation of magic
Patter
Good humor
The first trick
The voice
Making friends
You yourself
The routine
The proof of the pudding
Something new
The spectator perspective
Sleight of hand vs. self-working feats
Importance of the inconsequential
The simple way
The audience committee
Plots for tricks
Confederacy
A LESSON IN CARD HANDLING, BY DAI VERNON
The De Kolta Change
Tips on Changes
Multiple Card Control
Hand-to-Hand Transfer
The Peregrinating Pip
The All Backs
- Details of Handling
- Insertion of the Cards
THE SIDE STEAL AND SOME OF ITS FINER POINTS, BY DR. JACOB DALEY
Introductory Remarks
Right Hand Side Steal
Left Hand Side Steal
Double Peek and Bilateral Side Steal
Longitudinal Side Steal and Transfer
Applied Misdirection