Gambling Tricks - Handbook of Cheating | Nick Trost

From the foreword by Nick Trost:
This book contains the four-part series "The Tricks of the Gamblers" with tricks that deal with gambling and cheating:• Playing Cards Part 1 and Part 2, • Dice and • Swindles.

This book was written for magicians who want to learn about such tricks and techniques and incorporate them into their programs.

Stewart Judah greatly appreciated gambler tricks, and many of his favorite effects are included. There are also routines by myself and others that have not been published before. Only those tricks and gambles have been included that have strong entertainment value and can be presented at the table.

Dice tricks immediately capture the attention of spectators, and the collection in Part 3 offers you many fascinating options that you can use to build an entertaining dice routine.

Two of the highlights of this book are Karl Norman's Shell Game routine in Part 4 and Dennie Flynn's previously unpublished Chain Pull routine. I owe thanks to both for permission to describe them. I hope you enjoy them.

Hardcover edition in the format 17.5 x 24.5 cm, 200 illustrated pages

CONTENTS
Introduction
Cheating

Methods of cheaters

False Deal Deluxe
Triple Jack False Deal
Reading the Backs Routine
Casing the Deck
The Gambler and his Partner
Gambler versus Magician
Judah's Cutting to the Four Aces

Ranking in poker

Poker and Blackjack Deals

The Stacking Demonstration
The Bottom Deal Demonstration
Ten-Card Poker Routine
Trost's Eighteen-Card Poker
Judah's Five Deal Poker Trick
Trost's High-Card Poker
The Blackjack Demonstration
Trost's Blackjack Poker Routine

Techniques

False withdrawal in the hands
False withdrawal on the table
Misshuffling a deck of cards

Panty removal

Part 2 The Tricks of the Players - Playing Cards 2

Various games and tricks

The "Canfield Solitaire" Trick
Odd Man Winst
The Trick of Thirty-One
The Horse Race
The Siamese Aces

The Circus Card Trick

Trick betting with playing cards

Even — Odd
Red — Black
XX-0 (Tic-Tac-Toe)
Two Reds - Two Blacks
Color values
couples
Ace, Two and Jack
ladies
Lift up
Two together
Four Aces
combination
Four piles combination
Two card games

Special trick card games

Card Craps
Bridge
High-Low Cutting
Pinochle

Technology

Svengali riffle

Part 3 The Tricks of the Players - Dice

Dice control

The "Pad Roll"
The "Slide Shot"

Betting with dice

One-time dice bets
Double-Dice Bets
Three-Dice Bets
Four-times-roll bet
Before-the-Seven-Falls Bets
Bet with five dice
The last word

Dice games and cheating
Chuck-A-Luck

Beat the Dealer
Under and Over Seven
The Thirty-One Game

Prepared dice and aids

A "Craps" demonstration
Odd or Even
Expert “Craps” demonstration
Horse racing dice
Judah's "Loaded Dice" demonstration
Nick Trost's Special Poker Dice
Expert Dice Control
Deluxe Dice Control
The Chinese Dice Box
Cube shaker or rotating shaker

Part 4 The Tricks of the Players - Swindlers

The NIM game

The game with twenty matches
Nim • Stewart Judah's Version
Nim • EH Moore's Version
Nim • W A. Wijthoff's version
Nim • HE Dudeney's Version

Fairground scams

The trick with the belt
Cover the red dot'
It's about money

Special play equipment

Heads or tails
Same sides
Odd Man Wins!
The spinning coins
Coin exchange
Poker with the spinning coins
High-low roundabout
Give-and-take spinning top
Controllable cube blocks
Red-black pencil

Bet that ...

Betting with a banknote
The bet with the nine numbers
The bet with the year
Coin and matches
If it's heads, you lose!
A scam with eight coins
Stewart Judah's Three Button Bet
The bet with the three discs
Stewart Judah's Pool Bottle
The bet with the seven sticks
Phone Book Bet # 1
Phone Book Bet # 2

classic

The chain pull
The shell game

Attachment

Caraway Leaves by Jon Jensen

The Hype Move (False Throw)
The left-hand hype
Preparing the cards
Street-Monte - Caraway leaves

Possible dice totals
Calculating the probabilities of individual bets
GLOSSARY