ZARROW:
A LIFETIME OF MAGIC
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by David
Ben
xiii
Part One
My Friend and Magical Confidant by Johnny Thompson
3
Chapter One
U-Shuffle Poker
7
Switch Poker
9
Swindle Mates
11
Mind Match
12
Outnumbered
15
Touch Poker
16
Touch Aces
19
Top-Second-Bottom
22
The Straightest Gambler
22
Chapter Two
The Zarrow Block Addition
27
A Cutting Discovery
34
Quad Transposition Plus
35
Impromptu Out of This World
37
Dealing Forward and Backward to the Aces
39
Chapter Three
The Zarrow Fan Hold-Back
43
Mental Discernment
45
Slap Aces
46
Chapter Four
Blocking the Aces
51
Reversal of Fortune
52
Double Progressive
54
Turnover Surprise
57
Gathering Aces
60
Assemble the Aces
62
Black Mark Aces
67
Kicker Aces
70
Jumping Aces
75
Baseball Aces
76
Part Two
Filled With Magic by Marla Zarrow
Chapter Five
Revolving Aces
91
Revolving Royal Flush
94
Matched Revolvers
94
Revolving History
95
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - Dιjΰ vu
97
On The Up And Up
99
Doubly Ambitious
101
Ambitious Reversed
104
Think Change
108
Chapter Six
All Backs
115
Short Follow the Leader
122
Descending Oil and Water
124
Fanning the Waters
126
A Quick Three-Way
128
One Wrong Makes Right
130
Chapter Seven
Magician Cuts the Aces
137
Spectator Cuts the Cards
138
Matching Cut Cards
140
Aces Wild
140
A Cutting Revelation
142
4-Card Catch
145
Chapter Eight
Long and Short Spell, Etc.
149
Double Spell
151
Fan Prediction
154
Fan Double Match
155
Minimal Miraskill
156
A Red-Black Prediction
158
Part Three
Rock Solid by Ronald Wohl
163
Chapter Nine
Insight
167
Tosheroon Two
169
Double Tosheroon Two
170
An Off Beat Card Trick
172
Faro Throw-Off
174
A Card Between
176
Another Card Between
179
A Surprising Discovery
180
A Surprising Discovery II
182
Chapter Ten
Seven Times Two
189
A Carlyle Transposition
196
Choose the Aces
198
Push Through Kings
199
Two Card Transposition
202
Red Ace Black Ace
203
Vernons 1-2-3
203
Chapter Eleven
Addition and Subtraction
209
Card Affinity
212
Zigs & Zags
213
A Four for Two
214
Herbs Variant
215
Vernons ACAAN
216
Chapter Twelve
Three Cards Across
221
Two Mental Cards
223
A Two Deck Routine
225
Face Up to a Selection
227
Red/Black: Royal Flush
231
Herbs Hotel
234
The Card Puzzle Revisited
237
Part Four
Personal Magic by John Mintz
247
Chapter Thirteen
A Strip-Out Production
251
Unshuffling the Colors
253
Is This Your Card?
255
Tommy Burkes Faro Finesse
257
Expert Gymnastics
259
Double Bilis
260
Dunbury Delusion Revisited
263
Trapeze
266
Chapter Fourteen
Penny and Quarter Transposition
273
Switch-Change
275
Starfish Copper/Silver
276
Visu-Pinch
278
The Penetrating Bands
279
Wyatt Earp and the Rubber Lariat
282
Rubber Match
286
Found, Bound and Changed
286
Double Spin Out
288
The Berg Knot Revisited
292
Chapter Fifteen
A Criss-Cross Cut Force
301
Russ Bent Card through Pocket
303
Flicker Again
304
Flipper in the Hand
305
Fancy False Cuts
307
Easy Cut Flourish
314
Swivel Cut Revelations
318
Universal Count Grip
323
The Worraz Move
326
Chapter Sixteen
Double Peek Glimpse
333
The Vertical Turnover Pass
335
Loose Lifts
338
Double Lift Substitutes
344
On the Erdnase Bottom Palm
346
On the Diagonal Palm Shift
347
Too Good To Lose
348
A Middle Palm
349
Center Fugue
351
Cutting to a Card
355
Dhotel Revisited
355
Five Card Revelation
358
Tour through the Outback
360
Chapter Seventeen
Angle Step Injog Stack
365
Overhand Shuffle Injog
366
Cull Stock Shuffle
369
Spring Riffle Top Palm
371
Cut Palm Replacement
372
Multiple Bottom Palm
373
Riffle Steal
374
The Hop
376
Bottom Hop
381
Table False Cut
383
One-Hand False Table Cut
384
Part Five
Fifty Years with Herb and Phyllis by Persi Diaconis
389
Chapter Eighteen
The Zarrow Shuffle
395
Adding a Cut
401
Two Shuffles
403
Double-Cover Zarrow
405
Three Shuffle Double-Cover
406
Skimming the Aces
407
Four Packet Red Black
408
Zarrow Cull Stacking
409
Double-Cover Triumph
412
Quadruple Triumph
414
Surprise Stack
417
Alternate Aces Plus
418
Red Black Revelation
420
Attraction
422
Three Phase Poker
425
Black and Red Kingdoms
426
Parting Thoughts ... 430
After The Shuffle
430
Notes ... 457
A Lifetime of Magic
460
Chronological Bibliography
461
Acknowledgements
463
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