Card-Sharpers, Their Tricks Exposed, Or, the Art of Always Winning
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But instead of equalising 194 CARD-SHARPERS the pack for the purpose of completing the shuffle, the Greek manages to make the packet he has inserted in the other one incline, as in Fig. 1 6.
Then commences an operation which is masked by the right hand.
The Greek, after passing packet No. i across No. 2, makes the lower one describe an arc of a circle towards the right, which frees it and allows it to be replaced under No. i, its first position.
CHAPTER XIV.
CUT CARDS.
O use cut cards was one o...f the prin- cipal tricks of the last century. This manoeuvre was then only known by the adepts of high standing, and made many dupes.
It is now only practised in gambling dens, because the artifice is too gross to deceive any one but the frequenters of such places. In spite of that, it is a powerful instrument for cheating in the hands of some Greeks.
We mean by biseautdes cards those larger at one «nd than the other, as shown in Fig. 17.
o 2 196 CARD-SHARPERS For this purpose the Greek, scissors in hand, cuts the cards on each side, commencing by about one-eighth of an inch, to terminate at nothing at the opposite extremity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But instead of equalising 194 CARD-SHARPERS the pack for the purpose of completing the shuffle, the Greek manages to make the packet he has inserted in the other one incline, as in Fig. 1 6.
Then commences an operation which is masked by the right hand.
The Greek, after passing packet No. i across No. 2, makes the lower one describe an arc of a circle towards the right, which frees it and allows it to be replaced under No. i, its first position.
CHAPTER XIV.
CUT CARDS.
O use cut cards was one o...f the prin- cipal tricks of the last century. This manoeuvre was then only known by the adepts of high standing, and made many dupes.
It is now only practised in gambling dens, because the artifice is too gross to deceive any one but the frequenters of such places. In spite of that, it is a powerful instrument for cheating in the hands of some Greeks.
We mean by biseautdes cards those larger at one «nd than the other, as shown in Fig. 17.
o 2 196 CARD-SHARPERS For this purpose the Greek, scissors in hand, cuts the cards on each side, commencing by about one-eighth of an inch, to terminate at nothing at the opposite extremity.
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