Faro Fundamentals

An Introduction to Faro Shuffle Technique, Theory and Application

2020
Written by Greg Chapman
Work of Greg Chapman
54 pages (Paperback), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Greg Chapman
Language: English
29 entries
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Jeremy Griffith Foreword
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Greg Chapman Introduction
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Greg Chapman Technique, Theory and Applications discussion of the faro shuffle
  • Quality and Condition of Cards
  • Regular Cut vs Traditional Cut Cards
  • Full and Partial Shuffle
  • In the Hands vs Tabled Faro
  • In-Faro vs Out-Faro
  • Straddle-Faro
  • How to Learn and Practice the Faro Shuffle
  • Top-down vs Bottom-up
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Greg Chapman How to execute a perfect shuffle - in-the-hands, top down
  • A Closer Look at Interlacing the Two Packets
  • Starting the Weave for In vs Out
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Greg Chapman How to execute a perfect shuffle - in-the-hands, bottom up
  • Bridging the Shuffle Flourish
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Greg Chapman Splitting 26/26 - How to split perfectly in half using estimation (in the hands)
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Greg Chapman Adjustments to Correct Estimation Errors without Elmsley mention
  • Adjustment - for one card too many in the top packet during an out-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too few in the top packet during and out-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too many in the top packet during an in-faro
  • Adjustment - for one card too few in the top packet during and in-faro
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Greg Chapman How to do a Perfect Tabled Faro no riffling
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Greg Chapman Eight Perfect Out-Faros
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Greg Chapman Fifty-two Perfect In-Faros
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Greg Chapman Splitting 26/26 - Stacked Deck and Key Card Peeks
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Greg Chapman Calculating the New Position for Any Card After Each Out-Faro
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Greg Chapman Out-Faro Charts
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Greg Chapman Six Belts
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Greg Chapman Fixed Floating Key Cards in a Stacked Deck 18-35 principle
    • High Card
    • Hold'em
  • Work in the Cards
  • Other Positions
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Greg Chapman Faro Fooler - controlling a card to the top with one shuffle and cut two handlings, with crimp at known position, selection replaced during dropping piles on table
  • Fooler No. 1
  • Fooler No. 2
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Greg Chapman To Bring Cards Together (e.g. 4-of-a-kind to top, middle)
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Greg Chapman The Faro Shuffle and the Stacked Deck short comment on quartets and Si Stebbins
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Greg Chapman To Bring Multiple Cards to Specific Positions short note
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Greg Chapman Anti-Faro comment
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Greg Chapman In-Faro Calculations: Calculating the new position for any card after each in-faro
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Greg Chapman 51-Card Faro allowing cuts
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Greg Chapman The Morphing Stack on using the different faro states of a stack for different routines
Related to
  • Greg Chapman, The Devil's Staircase, 2014
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Greg Chapman A Difficult Sleight
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Greg Chapman Faro Shuffle Philosophy
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Greg Chapman More Faro Descriptions, Theory, Techniques and Routines a few faro references
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Bonus Routines
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Greg Chapman Searchers Undone faros bring sandwich cards together in stages
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Greg Chapman One Card Missing (Version 2) spectator removes any card, after a few faros the performer looks through the cards and names missing card
Inspired by
  • "One Card Missing" (Greg Chapman, Details of Deception, 2017)
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Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2021.