Three Card Monte - John Scarne - Contento Estate
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This is a treatise on the sucker effects of the Three Card Monte. It starts with an intro by Nate Leipzig, includes a definition of gambling terms and goes on to explain moves, routines and schemes to work the Three Card Monte. John Scarne was a master in performing and demonstrating this sucker effect. Learn everything about it in this digital reproduction, either to be aware of the various ways this can be played and thus be protected, or to learn to perform it for entertainment purposes.
From the preface by Nate Leipzig:
For those who are not acquainted with Mr. John Scarne, I wish to say that he is the most expert exponent of wonderful card effects and table work I have ever seen in my life. I have met and known personally some very fine performers, both amateurs and professionals. But I have yet to see such fine work and originality as Mr. Scarne has command of.
In this book Mr. Scarne has covered everything there is to know about Three Card Monte, it being to the best of my knowledge the only work ever produced on this particular subject. Apart from one or two fundamental principles employed in the original form of the trick, practically all of the effects, dodges, subtleties, come-on ideas, etc., are original with Mr. Scarne.
What A Great Magician Has To Say About Scarne 6
Contents 8
Definition Of Gambling Terms 9
Foreword 11
Introduction 12
Grifter's Signals 14
The Call Method 14
The Hand Method 14
The Head Method 14
Familiar Phrases In Gambling 15
Hipe 15
Shills Or Cappers 15
Money Bag 15
Under-Throw 15
Over-Throw 15
Three Card Monte 16
A Series Of Deceptive Moves 19
Bent Or Crimped Corner Grifter Method 21
The Flip (?) 23
The Flip Change 24
Moves With Flip And Flip-Change 24
Grifter's Marked Corner Using The Flip And Flip-Change 26
Scarne's Monte Slide 27
Scarne's Triple Climax 29
Scarne's Method Of The Crimped Corner 31
Scarne's Marked Corner 33
The Stamped Ace-Scarne's Method 35
Scarne's Method Of Torn Corner 37
Scarne's Push Over Change 39
The Mexican Turn Over 40
The Daub 42
