Card Counting

see also additional material of the 2005 edition
1982
Written by Karl Fulves
Work of Karl Fulves
48 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations
Language: English
26 entries
Cover photograph
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Karl Fulves Card Counting introduction and credit information
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To Tell The Card Drawn from Kunard's "Book of Card Tricks" (1888), mod 13
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To Name a Card Drawn from a Piquet Pack from Kunard's "Book of Card Tricks" (1888), mod 10
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Karl Fulves Indexed Poker spectator removes any straight flush, performer names it after looking through deck
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Karl Fulves Digital Version spectator removes any straight flush, performer names it after looking through deck, optional edge-mark helps
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T. Nelson Downs, Charles T. Jordan Subtraction Technique calculation help in clocking
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Charles Hopkins Hopkin's 220 System any number card thought-of
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Karl Fulves Time Sharing strategy to buy time for head work in card counting
Inspired by 9
Karl Fulves 3-Handed Clock strategy to buy time for head work in card counting by playing a made-up three-handed game
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Karl Fulves Parallex II fair conditions, apparently not all cards are seen to count them, "Parallax II" misspelled
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Suit Fishing
13
Karl Fulves Commitment cards apparently memorized, spectator exchanged two cards and those are found
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J. W. Sarles, John Scarne An Amazing Memory card removed from half a deck is divined
  • Not The Method
  • How It's Done
Inspired byRelated toVariations 16
Karl Fulves Three Packet Memory card removed from a third of the deck is named
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Karl Fulves Pointed Reminder small packet is cut in half with scissors, two matching halves are exchanged, performer divines which halves
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Ken Beale Half a Headache card removed from half the deck is divined, then with other half, cards laid out on table in pattern that does card counting, also suit, parallel principle
Also published here 27
Ken Beale A Clock Trick rotating stack application, card in clock layout chosen by value of card chosen from rest
Variations 31
Karl Fulves The Parallel Principle shuffled deck split in two halves, performer and spectator remove card and put it in other half, divined in illogical way with both selections being the same
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Karl Fulves Telephone Puzzler impractical card counting over the phone
Related to 37
Satya Ranjan Roy Novel Memory Trick with Cards non-mod card counting with negative numbers, for value and suit simultaneously, reprinted from Stanyon's, with "Notes by Karl Fulves"
Related to
  • "27. Another Method" (Stanyon's Magic, Vol. 13 No. 4, Jan. 1913, p. 30)
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Karl Fulves SRR + Stebbins missing card named by looking only through half the shuffled deck
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Karl Fulves Indian Poker spectator removes any card and a four-of-a-kind from shuffled deck, performer removes mate of first card, renamed "Roy-al Poker" in 2005 edition
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Karl Fulves Fake Counting non-clocking method with riffle shuffled stack to name a freely removed card
Related to 46
Karl Fulves Chaser card that spectator removes from half a deck is apparently predicted
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Karl Fulves And Counting further thoughts on card counting, also with non-card items like divining date on removed coin from pile
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Karl Fulves Pointer Cards & Clocking Ideas
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Data entered by Denis Behr, December 2015.