This is one book card conjurors need in their library. Let me tell you, this book is loaded with information. What the reader will find valuable is the references to many other modern, variant sleights created since then. Because it was written back a century ago, it needed an update. These sleights described however assumes the performance is at the card table.

For those of you who donвЂ™t know, вЂњExpert At The Card TableвЂќ is an extraordinary book offering technical description on gambling sleights such as false cuts, false shuffles, and shifts (what magicians call the pass). It is simply a copy of вЂњExpert At The Card TableвЂќ with additional side notes from Darwin Ortiz. The Annotated Erdnase is your reference to all of the sleights created since вЂњExpert At The Card TableвЂќ was written (back in 1902). Whenever he wanted me to realize what move he was thinking about, he just did it and said вЂњthat one.вЂќ Furthermore, whenever I spoke the magic language, he always asked me to show the move so he could say вЂњoh that!вЂќ I can testify to that fact because recently I met a magician who could not vocalize the proper terms for each sleight-of-hand technique he used. We often use concepts without knowing where they originated from. Details: Ed Marlo felt magicians have very short memory.

Annotated erdnase by darwin ortiz.