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PART ONE: THE TEN CARD DEAL
INTRODUCTION
The Basic Principle
Statistical Analysis
References
How To Read This Book
Origins
How Belly Strippers Work
Sure Fire Showdown (Dai Vernon)
Poker (Arthur Buckley’s Card Control)
Baseless Speculation
Magic Appears
The Phoenix 1949
The Phoenix #168
Vernon and the Mexican Gambler
Presentation
Jonah on Top
Jonah on Bottom
Jonah Second From Top
Spectator Second Deals
Spectator Shuffles
Ace As Jonah On Top
The Phoenix #170
Martin Gardner
Ed Marlo
Bert Allerton
Biddle Move
Take Ten (John Murray)
STRATAGEMS
Which Cards To Use
Creations of Science and Intelligent Design
Getting the Cards Into Play
Getting Into the Ten Card Poker Deal (David Drake)
Build Down (Allan Slaight)
Decimix (Max Maven)
Meet and Greet (Nicholas Johnson)
Spectator Does a False Cut
20-Card Poker Deal (Nick Trost)
False Shuffles
Bolo Jonah
Marked Cards
Short and Long Cards
Snap Crimp (Steve Mayhew)
Aragon Attractor (Woody Aragon)
Forcing the Jonah
Odd/Even
Shuffle and Deal
Face-Up or Face-Down
Odd Even (Allan Ackerman)
Combinations
Deal Equivoque
Bare Faced Lie
Australian Down Under Deal
Jonumber (Max Maven)
Psychological Force
Reverse Faro (Larry Becker)
The Beale Deal (Ken Beale)
Con Cam Coincidencia (R. Paul Wilson)
Pateo (Roy Baker)
Fourdoomed (Bob King)
StayCard Principle (Mike Daniels)
Ten Card (Second and Bottom) Deals
9-As-10 Dodge
11-As-10 Dodge
12-As-10 Dodge (Peter Duffie)
Eighteen Cards (Nick Trost)
Add-Ons (Tomas Blomberg)
Long Card (Harry Franke, jr.)
Proposition Bet (Karl Fulves)
Poker Savvy
Displaying the Winning Hand
Faking a Knowledge of Poker
New Endings
Wait and Switch
The Angels May Shuffle, But the Devil Still Deals (Steve Mayhew)
CADD
Luck of the Draw (Jeff Pierce and Ryan Schlutz)
Cheater, Cheater (Harold Cataquet)
Psychic Bid Spelling (Stewart James)
Ten Card Wild (Stephen Hobbs and Robert Neale)
Porstmann’s Paladin (Mike Porstmann)
Teleological Existentialism (Patrick Schlagel)
Predictions
Gambler’s Forecast (Peter Duffie)
Pretense (Max Maven)
Equivo-Ten (Bob Farmer)
Decideal (T.A. Waters)
Ten Card Poker Stand-Up (Larry Becker)
Predicting the Winning Hand (Leo Boudreau)
Presentations
Jonah in Harry’s Pocket (Jon Racherbaumer and Harry Anderson)
ONE JONAH
Introduction
Ten Card Poker Deal (Harry Lorayne)
The Ten Card Poker Killer (John Mendoza)
Challenge Poker Routine (Basil Horwitz)
Cutting For The Edge (Nicholas Johnson)
Tete A Tete (J.K. Hartman)
Magician Versus Gambler (Brother John Hamman)
The 50 Card Deal (Steve Mayhew)
Fished In and Chips (Bob Farmer)
Go Fisch (R. Paul Wilson)
Shooting Fish in a Barrel (Curtis Kam)
Scarne’s $500 Poker Deal (John Scarne)
Twenty-Deck Poker Deal (Nick Trost)
Full-Deck Ten Card Poker (Nick Trost and Bob Farmer)
Power Poker (Bob King and Mike Porstmann)
Six-Card Deal (Robert Neale)
Jonah Wild (Robert Neale)
Showdown (Jim Swain)
80 Card Poker Deal (Patrick Redford)
Mexican Poker (Darwin Ortiz)
TWO JONAHS
Introduction
Cider! (Paul Curry)
Decideal (T.A. Waters)
Ten Card Poker Idea (Nick Trost)
Nick the Green Poker Deal (Charles Nyquist)
Psych-Out Poker (Peter Kougasian)
Sweeter Cider (Lewis Jones)
Strong Cider (Jon Racherbaumer and Ed Marlo)
Double Damned (Ernest Earick)
Well-Appointed Stud (Tom Frame)
Progressive Poker (R. Paul Wilson)
Fair Game (Peter Duffie)
Showdown (Nick Trost)
Mahtub (Rene Lavand)
The Tim Card Poker Deal (Tim Ellis)
Rich Weeviled Brain Enigma (Bob Farmer)
Ha, No Jonah (Michael Weber)
Super Showdown (Nick Trost)
EIGHT JONAHS
Automatic Gambler (Nick Trost)
Automatic Gambler About Face (Bob Farmer)
The Automatic Blind Gambler (Bob Farmer)
The Automatic Gambler Magic Circle (Bob Farmer)
EIGHTEEN JONAHS
Eighteen Card Poker (Nick Trost)
Psych Out (Bruce Bernstein)
Mississippi Poker (Nick Trost)
The Cincinnati Kid Poker Game (Tony Binarelli)
Strip Club (Bob Farmer)
CADD
Power Poker
Trap Dance I
Trap Dance II
Trap Dance III (J.K. Hartman)
The Idiot Poker Plot (Robert Deale)
Blessed Poker (Woody Aragon)
THE CADD FORCE
Russian Poker Roulette (Bob Farmer)
Jonah You Cadd (Bob Farmer)
How To Win At Poker (Tony Griffith)
Gambler’s Poker Routine (Nick Trost)
History (Jon Racherbaumer)
MAGIC MAGAZINE
Introduction
Done Deal I: Spectator Deals
Done Deal II: Spectator Deals
Done Deal III: Pairs
Done Deal IV: Blind Psycho
Done Deal III and IV Combo
Done Deal V: The Scam-and-Scram Ten Card Deal
Done Deal VI
Done Deal VII
GLASGOW RULES, O.K.?
Introduction
The Twenty Card Deal (Roy Walton)
Three Handed Ten Card Deals (Peter Duffie)
No Palming, No Cry (Bob Farmer)
Kismet Poker (Jonas Ljung)
The Last Game (David Britland)
The Zen Card Deal (Peter Duffie)
NINE CARD HOLD’EM
TEN CARD UNREAL
Pabst Blue Ribbon Poker Deal (Jeff Pierce)
Special Poker Dice (Nick Trost)
Spinning Nickel Poker (Nick Trost)
Ten Bill Deal (Bob Farmer)
The Dragon and the Unicorn (Robert Neale)
Pizza Poker (Nick Trost)
Alpha Betting (Stewart James)
PART TWO: DEALS WITH TEN CARDS
Absolute Power Poker Deceives Absolutely
The Four Queens Procedure (Bill Simon)
Odd Yet Predictable (Jon Racherbaumer)
Solomon Is King
Mexican Poker (David Solomon, John Bannon, Toma Blomberg)
The Blomberg Variation (Tomas Blomberg)
Refried Poker (R. Paul Wilson)
Mexicali Ruse (J.K. Hartman)
Empowering Poker A Bit More (Jon Racherbaumer and Harry Anderson)
Give Me Five (Lewis Jones)
Your Choice (Ken De Courcy)
242 2.0 (Joshua Jay)
Power Poker (Alex Elmsley)
Vaya Con Dios Con (Bob Farmer)
Double Power Poker (Nick Trost)
Free Will (Peter Duffie)
Poker Stud (J.K. Hartman)
Poker With Any Ten Cards (Colm Mulcahy)
WINKLER POKER
No-Jonah Poker (Jon Racherbaumer)
Ouroboros (Jack Parker)
(Losing) End Poker (Jon Racherbaumer)
End Game (Bob Farmer)
Bottom Feeder (Brad Henderson)
Bottom Line (Bob Farmer)
Heads or Tails Hoodoo (Bob Farmer)
PART THREE: BLACKJACK DEALS
EIGHT CARD BLACK JACK
Blind Man’s Blackjack (Bob Farmer)
The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Card (Bob Farmer)
Blind Man’s Blackjack Showdown (Bob Farmer)
Power Blind Man’s Blackjack (Bob Farmer)
Absolute Power Blind Man’s Blackjack (Bob Farmer)
TABLE STAKES
Ten Cards
Choosing the Cards
Ten Card Deal Segue
BLACKJACK BONUSES
Introduction
Face-Up Blackjack (Bob Farmer)
Blackjack Attack (Bob Farmer)
Blackjack Of All Trades (Max Maven)
Grid and Bear It (Roy Walton)
Grid and Bear It II (Harold Cataquet)
World’s Greatest Blackjack Stack (Harold Cataquet)
PART FOUR: SWITCHES
WAIT AND SWITCH
Phasers On Stun
Time and Reality Correction Theory
The Hip Hop (J.K. Hartman)
The Hop Off The Bottom (Jack Merlin)
The Louisiana Switch
The Jinx Switch (Theodore Annemann)
Teh Bebop Hop
The Hop Drop
Credits, History and Comments
PART FIVE: REFERENCES
TEN CARD DEAL REFERENCES
IN CONCLUSION
DEALER DEMO EASTER EGG
PHARAOHS & MAGICIANS
Porstmann’s Paladin (Stage Routine)
Mike Card Deal (Michal Kociolek)