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Once Upon a Time
Historical notes for
the material on All In

Contents
Introduction
Running the Aces
Table Bluff Shift
A Random Act
451 Stack
Poor Uncle Joe
Hustlers Rip
Hybrid Stack
The Ultimate False Deal
Pseudo Hand Muck
Direct Switch
General Utility Control
Multiple Card Switch
One Two Switch
Retention Switch
Spread Switch
Toss Palm
Barstool Steal
Tip for the Diagonal Palm Shift
2nd Dealing Tips
Bottom Dealing Tips
Imagine
Touch My Heart
The Vanishing
Four
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Introduction
Well hello there,
Before I finish this glass of single malt whisky, let me
welcome you to All In. As the name implies, this project runs
the gamut from gambling demos to moves to magic tricks, and
even legitimate techniques for the gaming table. Im All In. But
one cannot be truly all in without paying respect to the greats.
They have laid the foundation from which we work on, imparting
tools and inspiration. I am forever grateful and indebted. And
thats where this document comes in. Follow me on a journey to
explore the origins of everything youll see on All In. Card moves
are often born in the shadowslet my cigar tip illuminate the
way.

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Running the Aces

Ed Marlos The Other Method contained the

technique of planting the left thumb on a specific
card in an unsquared deck to acquire a break during
the squaring procedure. It was published in the
October, 1967 issue of The New Tops (Vol. 7, No. 10).

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Table Bluff Shift

Ed Marlo published a technique to maintain jogs in a
tabled spread as the Delayed Spread Control in his
book, Control Systems (1952).

Collapsing a break to
automatically anglejog
the cards above was
part of Cliff Greens
An Imperceptibe GetReady in Professional
Card Magic (1961).

Putting all four Aces in as one

comes from Bob Veesers Bluff Shift,
published in Ed Marlos manuscript,
The Multiple Shift (1960).

The disarming finesse

of riffling the deck while
holding a break was used
by a magician simply
named Elliot, within Elliots
Zircon Card Trick in The
Magician Annual (1909).

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A Random Act
The Zarrow Shuffle was published in
the July, 1957 issue of The New Phoenix
magazine (No. 346) as Full Deck Control by a
Riffle Shuffle. A more exhaustive description
of the shuffle can be found in David Bens
ZarrowA Lifetime of Magic (2008)

S.W. Erdnase described a one-handed Bottom

Deal in Expert at the Card Table (1902). The wrist
turnover aspect of the deal was introduced
by Ed Marlo as the One Hand Stud Second in
Seconds, Centers, and Bottoms (1959). As the
name suggests, Marlos technique was a Second
Deal. Tony Kardyro applied the wrist turnover to
a Bottom Deal in his Undercover section of The
New Tops (Vol. 26, No. 9).

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451 Stack

Ernest Earicks A Hand for Mr.

Scarne can be found in issue 6 of
Penumbra (2003).

While the concept of the Second

Deal is old, it wasnt commonly
described in print. Jean Eugne
Robert-Houdin detailed a push-off
handling in Les trickeries des Grecs
devoile (1861, English translation
1863), and John Nevil Maskelyne
detailed a strike technique in
Sharps and Flats (1894).

My own OBLITER-ACE-ION
was published in issue 2
of Labyrinth (1994).

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Poor Uncle Joe

Daryls Combo Count is a central part of his
Cardboard Chameleons routine, from The
Greater Magic Video Library Volume 13 (1986).

Tommy Tucker released The Six Card

Repeat Mystery in Charles Eastmans
Expert Manipulative Magic (1933).

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Hustlers Rip
The Monte Hype Move was described in Jean
Eugne Robert-Houdins Les trickeries des Grecs
devoile (1861, English translation 1863).

The basis for John

Hammans Gemini
Count is Karl Fulves
Center Pull-Out
from issue 21 of
Epilogue (1974).

My palm vanish is related to the Tent

Vanish variant Dai Vernon published
as part of his Slow-Motion Four Aces
routine in the series 6, no. 2 issue of
Stars of Magic (1950). An even closer
relative is Joel Givens Rubbed Out
from issue 60 of The Trapdoor (1996).

The Flustration Count

has its roots in Hindu
Shuffle displays, such
as in Harris Solomons
Nomolos from the May,
1938 issue of The Jinx
(Issue 44). The modern
small-packet Flustration
Count was published by
Norm Houghton within
his Colour Blind routine
in the June, 1955 issue
of Ibidem (No. 1).

The Erdnase Break can

be found as part of
the S.W.E. Shift in S.W.
Erdnases Expert at
the Card Table (1902).

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Hustlers Rip (cont.)

Paul Harris released a Monte-based, off-balance
transposition where the money card changes places
with the loser cards. It was called Double Monte and
can be found in Super Magic (1977).

Trevor Lewis released

his Monte Plus (or
Hallucination) in the
June, 1978 issue of
Apocalypse (Vol. 1, No.
6). In the following
issue, Ken Krenzel
added the upjog
addition, calling it
Monte Plus Plus.

The torn corner ruse for ThreeCard Monte can be found in Scarne
Explains Why You Cant Win (c.
1933), written by Audley Walsh.

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Using a folded corner as a

decoy for its torn counterpart
was part of Gordon Beans
Corner Kick from issue 2 of
Penumbra (2002).

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Hybrid Stack

Riffle stacking cards was described in the context

of cheating at Nap by John Nevil Maskelyne in
Sharps and Flats (1894).

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The Ultimate False Deal

Bill Kalush has tracked down a
manuscript that mentionswithout
describingthe Bottom Deal and
Center Deal from the 16th century:
Olivier Gouyns Le Mespris &
Contennement De Tous Ieux De
Sort Compose Oliuier Gouyn De
Poictiers (1550). S.W. Erdnases
Bottom Deal and grip were taught
in Expert at the Card Table (1902).

The Biddle Steal was a part of Elmer

Biddles Trancendent in the April,
1947 issue of Genii (Vol. 11, No. 8).

Charles Jordan used his thenunnamed Jordan Count in The

Phantom Aces within Thirty Card
Mysteries (1919).

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Pseudo Hand Muck

This tabled switch has its roots in Jack Merlins Hop

Off the Bottom from ...And a Pack of Cards (1927). In
Merlins original, the switched out cards were placed
on top of the pack, similar to what has become
known as the Jinx Switch. Jerry Hartman varied the
technique to place the cards on the table next to the
deck in his Stack Knack from the Autumn, 1985 issue
of Richards Almanac (Volume 3).

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Direct Switch
The Direct Switch has a related set of actions to Allan
Ackermans Oops Addition from The Cardjurer (2012).

Art Altman claimed to

have created the Altman
Trap in 1956, but it
wasnt published until
inclusion in Ed Marlos
Advanced Fingertip
Control (1970).

Collapsing a break to automatically

anglejog the cards above was part
of Cliff Greens An Imperceptible
Get-Ready in Professional Card
Magic (1961). For a tabled version,
please see Table Bluff Shift in
volume one of All In.

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Al Leechs pick-up is
described in Pseudo Color
Change from Super Card
Man Stuff (1965).

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General Utility Control

Ditching cards on top of a spread was part
of Ron Wilsons Highland Hop from the May,
1968 issue of Genii (Vol. 32, No. 9).

The finesse of hiding a packet under a clean

edge was published by Ed Marlo as The Razors
Edge in Marlos Magazine Volume 3 (1979).

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Multiple Card Switch

What is commonly referred
to as the Illogical Double Lift
is actually one of Ed Marlos
KM Moves. This version of the
KM Move was published under
Single Card Exchanges in Marlos
Magazine Volume 1 (1975).

The Stanyon Count was published

as The False Count (Second Method)
in the April, 1920 issue of Stanyons
Magic (Vol. 15, No. 7).

The first time the Stuart Gordon Turnover

hit the page, it wasnt under his name.
Ken Simmons published it in Riffling The
Pasteboards (1986), within his Ace-Bitiously
Yours routine. While Stuart Gordon had
been showing the move around since the
early 70s, he never published it. Two years
after Mr. Simmons booklet, the move was
published under Mr. Gordons name as a part
of Slow-Motion Larry in Larry Jennings The
Cardwright (1988), written by Mike Maxwell.
And recently with the release of David Bens
anthology of Herb Zarrow, ZarrowA Lifetime
of Magic (2008), we learn that Mr. Zarrow
was using an almost identical technique at
least a decade or more before Mr. Gordon.

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One Two Switch

Shooting cards away from the pack by curling

the index finger is a technique Ron Johnson
used in a false cut called Johnsons Cut,
described in Ed Marlos Marlo in Spades (1947).

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Retention Switch
Jerry Sadowitz has a move that switches an outjogged card
for the bottom card of the deck within his Ipcress routine
from Contemporary Card Magic (1984). Mr. Sadowitzs move
was from a squared deck, rather than a spread, and he
credited Gordon Bruces routine Way Out from the May, 1982
issue of Pabular magazine (Vol. 7, No. 4) for his inspiration.

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Spread Switch

The Spread Switch has roots in a move from Adrian

Plates The Disappearing Card where a jogged card is
pulled back on the deck as the right hand comes over
to take it. It was taught in The Magician Annual (1907).

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Toss Palm

S.W. Erdnase described his Bottom PalmFirst

Method in Expert at the Card Table (1902).

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Barstool Steal
Pushing a bottom card forward
during a palm was described as
Transformations. Two Hands.
Second Method. S.W. Erdnases
Expert at the Card Table (1902).

Ed Marlos Misdirection Palm was

published in The Cardician (1953).

Stealing the top card of an

outjogged double in this manner is
similar to Aaron Fishers Revolution
No. 9 from The Paper Engine (2002).

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Tip for the

Diagonal Palm Shift
Like myself, Arthur Finley also pulled
up his sleeves during the Diagonal
Palm Shift, although he palmed the
card into his right hand. Details of
his move can be found in Stephen
Minchs The Vernon Chronicles
Volume 1 (1987), called The Arthur
Finley Diagonal Palm Shift.

The Diagonal Palm Shift was

published in S.W. Erdnases
Expert at the Card Table (1902).

Ellis Stanyon used the action of pulling up

the sleeves as cover for a shifta twohanded Passand published it as Stanyons
Pass in Connection with Sleeves in the
September 1914September 1919 issue of
Stanyons Magic (Vol. 14, No. 12).

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2nd Dealing Tips

The Flop Second, along with several other Second Deal touches
were first detailed in my book, Modus Operandi (1992).

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Bottom Dealing Tips

Many of the techniques taught here were
detailed in two examinations of the Bottom
Deal: Notes on the Strike Bottom Deal,
and Notes on the Stud Bottom Deal. They
can be found in my book, Modus Operandi
(1992), written by Stephen Hobbs.

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Imagine
The basis for the Top Change was
published in Jean-Nicholas Ponsins
Nouvelle Magie Blanche
Devoilee (1853, English Translation
1937). The technique seems to have
been around much longer though, as
it was described in an anonymous
notebook circa 1800 that was
transcribed by Will Houstoun and
published as The Notebook (2009).
The End Grip handling of the Top
Change was published as Le Temps
Four Aces in Jean Hugard and Fred
Braues Expert Card Technique (1940).

R.W. Hulls A Mental Card

Mystery was published in Eye
Openers (1932), although Hulls
The Three of Clubs from the
Card Clairvoyance section of
John Northern Hilliards Greater
Magic (1938) is the routine upon
which most versions are based,
as it uses a duplicate card.

Henry Christs Reverse was published as

part of his Fabulous Ace Routine in Cliff
Greens Professional Card Magic (1961).

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Touch My Heart
Gilles-Edme Guyot published the card transposition plot
in Nouvelles Recreations Physiques et Mathematiques
(1740, English translation by Jean Hugard 1941) as Les
Cartes Changeantes Sous la Main.

This routine shares some

conceptual similarities
with Peter Duffies Crystal
Clear Transpo from Card
Secrets Unlocked (2005).
The turnover used is reminiscent of
what has become known as the Wild
Card Move, which dates back to a
Johann Hofzinser trick called Thought
from Hofzinsers Card Conjuring
(1910, English translation 1931).

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The Double Lift was

described as a bar
bet in Richard Neves
A Merry Companion;
or Delights for the
Ingenious (1716).

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The Vanishing
Herb Zarrows Block Addition was described
in The Vernon Chronicles Volume 3 (1989),
written by Stephen Minch.

The Elmsley Count was publishedalthough

unnamedin Alex Elmsleys marketed effect
The Four Card Trick (1959).

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Four
The plot of one four-of-akind changing into another
was published by Reginald
Scot in The Discoverie of
Witchcraft (1584), called
How to deliver out foure
aces, and to convert them
into foure knaves.

Bill Goodwins Spectator Cuts

to the Aces was taught on his
DVD, Reflection (2009).

The Top Card Cover Pass was created by

Clinton Burgess and described briefly in
the December, 1900 issue of Stanyons
Magic magazine (Vol. 1, No. 3). Using the
concept as a false cut was pioneered
by Joseph Cottone, whose Cottones
Spider-Grip False Cut appeared in More
Card Manipulations Series 3 (1940),
written by Jean Hugard. The Slip Cut
used in Four closely resembles Edward
Marlos V. Slip Cut No. 3 from Expert
Card Conjuring Part One (1968), written
by Alton Sharpe.

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Card Matrix
The Rub-a-Dub Vanish was
published as part of William
H. McCaffreys Card In The
Pocket II from John Northern
Hilliards Greater Magic
(1938). Johnny Thompson
asserts that the technique was
the creation of Charlie Miller.

The four-object assembly was

described using sugar cubes in a
trick aptly called Sugar, in Edwin
Sachs Sleight of Hand (1877).
Peter Kane used cards for the task
with his The Chink-a-Chink Aces in
A Further Card Session (1975).

Joe Berg described laying a double on

the table in Heres New Magic (1937).

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