Allan AckermanThe Expert At The Card Table11 DVD Set
Title: Expert At The Card Table
Performer: Allan Ackerman
Volume: Vol. 1 – Vol. 11
Publisher: Houdini Picture Corporation
Producer: Geno Munari, Christie Wessling
Editor: Geno Munari, Christie Wessling
Year: © 2008
- Description
Description
This Is An 11 Disc DVD Set And Sold Only As A Set.
VOLUME ONE – 1h 7m
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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Prologue Video & Voice Over By Ernest Borgnine Follows The “Story”
Introduction By Allan Ackerman
- Page 9-25 Narrated Introduction From The Book
- Page 25-28 Technical Terms
- Stock
- Run
- Jog
- In Jog
- Out-Jog
- Break
- Throw
- Culls
- Blind
- Upper Cut
- Under Cut
- Run Cut
- Top Card
- First Card
- Shuffle
- Shuffle Off
- Riffle
- Shift
- Crimp
- Page 28-31 Position For The Blind Shuffle And To Retain The Top Stock
- Pages 29-39 Blind Shuffles. Erdnase System Of
- I. To Retain Top Stock
- II. To Retain Top Stock And Shuffle Whole Deck
- III. To Retain The Bottom Stock And Shuffle Whole Deck
- Jogging Process
- Pages 33-36 Blind Riffles And Cuts. Erdnase System Of
- I. To Retain The Top Stock
- Closed Shuffle
- II. To Retain The Bottom Stock
- Open Shuffle
- Squaring Up
- Alternating The Initial Block Cut
- I. To Retain The Top Stock
- Page 39 Pull Through/Strip Out
- Pages 39-46 Blind Cuts
- I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card
- Slip Cut
- II. To Retain The Complete Stock
- III. To Retain The Top Stock
- Run Cut I
- IV. To Retain The Bottom Stock
- Run Cut II
- I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card
- Page 44 Combination Riffle And Cuts
- V. To Retain Bottom Stock. Riffle II And Cut IV
- *Bonus – Prelude To Fancy Blind Cuts
- Pages 44-45 Fancy Blind Cuts
- I. To Retain The Complete Stock
- II. To Retain The Complete Stock
- Pages 46-47 One-Handed Fancy True Cut
- *Bonus – Prelude To Crimps
- Pages 48-51 To Indicate Location For The Cut
- I. This Is Located By The Crimp
- Crimp I Concave
- Crimp II Convex
- II. This Is Located By The Jog
- Shuffle And Cut Located By The Side Jog
- III. This Is Located By The Crimp
- Crimp Via Tables Edge
- IV. This Is Located By The Jog
- Riffle And Cut Located By The Jog
VOLUME TWO – 52 minutes
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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- Pages 52-60 False Deals
- Bottom Dealing
- Top And Bottom Dealing With One Hand
- Stud Bottom Deal
- Second Dealing
- First Method Second Deal
- Second Method Second Deal
- How To Practice The Second Deal
- Page 60 Ordinary Methods Of Stocking, Locating And Securing
- Stocking, Locating And Securing First Method
- Stocking, Locating And Securing Second Method
- Page 65 Stock Shuffle
- *Bonus – Blind Stock
- Page 67 Stock Shuffle 2 hands
- Pages 68-76 Stock Shuffling. Erdnase System Of
- Two-Card Stock
- Three-Card Stock
- Four-Card Stock
- Five-Card Stock
- Twelve-Card Stock
- Euchre Stock Four handed Game first method
- Euchre Stock Four handed Game second method
- Pages 78-81 Cull Shuffling. The Erdnase System Of
- To Cull Two Cards, Numbers 8, 4
- To Cull Three Cards, Numbers 7, 5, 9
- To Cull Four Cards, Numbers 3, 6, 2, 5
- To Cull Nine Cards, Numbers 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 7, 1
VOLUME THREE – 43 minutes
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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- Pages 83-93 Palming. The Erdnase System Of Palming
- Top Palm, First Method
- Top Palm, Second Method
- Bottom Palm, First Method
- First Bottom Palm Variation
- Bottom Palm, Second Method
- Bottom Palm When Cards Are Riffled
- Second Method
- Page 93 To Maintain The Bottom Palm While Dealing
- Page 94 To Hold The Location Of Cut While Dealing
- Pages 95-102 Shifts
- Two Handed Shift
- Erdnase Shift, One Hand
- Erdnase Shift, Two Hands
- Peek & Mode
- Page 103 To Ascertain The Top Cards While Riffling And Reserve Them At Bottom
- Top Card Peek And Reserve Card At Bottom
- Top Card Peek And Reserve Card At Bottom Back View
- Pages 104-105 Mode Of Holding The Hand
- Pages 106-108 Skinning The Hand
- Pages 109-123 The Player Without An Ally
- Dealing Without The Cut
- Replacing The Cut As Before
- Holding Out For The Cut
- Shifting The Cut – By Changing The Moment
- Dealing Too Many
- Crimping For The Cut
- Replacing Palm When Cutting First Method
- Replacing Palm When Cutting Second Method
- Replacing Palm When Cutting Third Method
- The Short Deck
- Pages 117-122 Three Card Monte
- Pages 122-124 Mexican Three Card Monte
VOLUME FOUR – 57 minutes
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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- Pages 125-128 Legerdemain
- Excerpt Narrated by Ernest Borgnine
- Pages 128-144 Shifts
- Single Handed Shift
- The Longitudinal Shift
- The Open Shift 132-134
- The S. W. E. Shift 134-137
- The Diagonal Palm Shift 137-141
- Pages 141-142 The Blind Shuffle For Securing Selected Card
- Pages 142-144 Forcing
- Pages 144-146 Palming
- The Back Palm
- Pages 147-151 Changes
- The Top Change 147-148
- The Bottom Change 148
- The Palm Change 149
- The Double Palm Change 150
- *Bonus – The Double Palm Change non-discrepant
- Pages 151-155 Transformations. Two Hands
- First Method Of Color Changes
- Second Method Of Color Changes
- Third Method Of Color Changes
- Fourth Method Of Color Changes
- Fifth Method Of Color Changes
- Sixth Method Of Color Changes
- Pages 156-158 Transformations. One Hand
- First Method
- Second Method
- Pages 159-165 Blind Shuffles. Retaining Entire Order
- First Method Of Blind Shuffles
- Second Method Of Blind Shuffles
- Third Method Of Blind Shuffles
- Fourth Method Of Blind Shuffles
- Fifth Method Of Blind Shuffles
- Pages 165-167 Methods For Determining A Card Thought Of
- A. By The Riffle
- B. By The Springing Flourish
- C. By The Cut
- D. By The Gaze
- Pages 168-169 To Get Sight Of Selected Card
- Method One
- Method Two
- Method Three
- Pages 168-169 The Slide
- Pages 169-170 Favorite Sleights For Terminating Tricks
- Catching Two Cards At Fingertips
- Leaving Selected Card In Hand Of Spectator
- The Revolution
- Cards Rising From The Hand
VOLUME FIVE – 40 minutes
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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- Pages 171-178 Card Tricks
- The Exclusive Coterie
- The Divining Rod
- The Invisible Flight
- Erdnase Method
- Ackerman Method
- Pages 179-184 Card Tricks With The Prearranged Deck
- Calling The Cards {2:45
- Weighing The Cards {243
- Name A Number I Name A Card
- Name A Card I Name The Number
- Explanations
- Calling The Cards
- Eight Kings…Full Deck Stack Tetradistic Stack
- Explanation Weighing The Cards
- Explanation Name A Number I Name A Card
- Explanation Name A Card I Name The Number
VOLUME SIX – 1h 21m
(Page Numbers follow The Book “Expert At The Card Table“)
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- Pages 185-205 More Card Tricks
- The Traveling Cards
- The Row Of Ten Cards
- The Acrobatic Jacks
- Original Version
- Simplified Version
- A Mind-Reading Trick
- Power Of Concentrated Thought
- The Acme Of Control
- The Card And Handkerchief
- The Top And Bottom Production
- The Three Aces
- The Card And Hat
- Bonus Routines
- Card Through The Leg
- Elevators
- Coterie
- Mind Easing
- New Erdnase Bottom Palm
Bonus Disc 7 – 1h 35m
- Exclusive Interview With Bart Whaley And Martin Gardner
Bonus Disc 8 – 1h 13m
- Exclusive Interview With Richard Hatch – Part 1
Bonus Disc 9 – 45min
- Exclusive Interview With Richard Hatch – Part 2
Bonus Disc 10 – 1h 18m
- Exclusive Interview With Richard Hatch – Part 3
- Ending Credits
Disc 11 Is A Data Disc
- Bart Whaley Biography 1 Page Pdf
- Bart Whaley Curriculum Vita 1 Page Pdf
- Erdnase Publishing Timeline 1 Page Pdf
- Erdnase Research Timeline By Richard Hatch 2 Page Pdf
- The Expert At The Card Table book 1944 Edition 218 Pages Pdf
With 11 Pages Of Critical Comment by Professor Hoffman On:
These Critical Comments Are Articles From: The Magic Wand Vol. 1 No. 1 to Vol. II No. 13- The Erdnase One Hand Shift
- The Erdnase Two Hand Shift
- The Erdnase Longitudinal Shift
- The S.W.E. Shift
- The Erdnase Open Shift
- The Erdnase Top Palm
- The Erdnase Bottom Palm
- The Gardner-Smith Correspondence 2007 31 Page Pdf
Martin Gardner’s Correspondence With Marshall D. Smith The Artist Who Illustrated “The Expert At The Card Table” - “The Murdering Cardshark” 4 Page Pdf
Story Of Milton Franklin Andrews By Martin Gardner And John Conrad
Detailing the story of Milton Franklin Andrews as S.W. Erdnase - “Was Erdnase Abdul Aziz Khan?” 2 Page Pdf
By Martin Gardner From The Conjurors’ Magazine August 1949
Discussing A Reprinted Article From James Andrews Titled “The Confession Of A Fakir” That Was Originally Published In Harper’s Weekly June 26 1909 Asking If James Andrews Was, Infect, S.W. Erdnase.
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