Card-sharpers, their tricks exposed, or, The art of always winning (1891)
Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871, Forster, Joseph · London : Spencer Blackett · leaf 188
DRAWING THE CARD 177 Clever sharpers, while advancing the right hand to deal the card, give to the left a little movement of recoil which completely covers the operation. This manoeuvre may be continued as often as the Greek requires, for his interests, one card rather than another. To give an idea… … Fig. II. trick, I may mention a certain Greek (referred to in my " Confidences ") who, after having placed the king of spades on the pack, dealt the cards one after another, and by thirty-one substitutions in succession, made the king of spades the last card in the pack. I avowed then, and I repeat…
Gambling · Card games
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