Clockwork

Approaches To Card Counting

2005
Written by Karl Fulves
Work of Karl Fulves
75 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
46 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Karl Fulves Introduction
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Karl Fulves Kid Stuff finding missing card in small packet, for practicing
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Karl Fulves Tri-Out spectator choses large number by chosen seven or eight spot cards, it is predicted that it is divisible by three, and it is, for practicing card counting
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Karl Fulves Counterfeat spectator removes any card from shuffled deck, performer removes full house and bets that spectator cannot beat him with straight flush that includes his card
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Charles T. Jordan, Karl Fulves Reckoning With Jordan commented reprint of "The Pair Detection", spectator removes a pair from a packet, performer finds out which cards, Parallel Principle
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Karl Fulves Displaceable U deck cut in half, both halves shuffled, spectator removes some cards of named suit and places them in box, another one from other half under box, last one is named
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Karl Fulves Yo, Adrian two spectators take a card from half the deck and place it in the other, both divined, one is a confederate
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Karl Fulves Stooge's Riffle Shuffle Glimpse stooge can glimpse top card during performer's shuffle
Inspired by
  • "A Prediction" (Hatton & Plate, Magician's Tricks and how they are done)
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Karl Fulves Calling Ms. Modulo two poker hands, performer and spectator each decide on a hole card, medium tells hole card after hearing other four cards
Inspired by
  • "Telephone Stud" (Wallace Lee, Math Miracles, 1950)
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Karl Fulves Domain Theory teaser for next section
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Karl Fulves Fractional Counts clocking used with only a known section in middle of deck
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Karl Fulves Mix Up adding partial false shuffles to previous trick
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Karl Fulves Stopped Clock spectator and performer remove a card, shuffled back in, performer deals and stops at both cards, domain theory
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Karl Fulves Third Degree two thirds are clocked, one, two or three selections can be removed or returned to different section and found
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Karl Fulves Suit Solution in Clocking card removed, performer removes four-of-a-kind of same value but originally removed card vanishes as it cannot be there
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Karl Fulves From Concentrate clocking only one color or other property
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Karl Fulves Mind's i two piles, two spectators each remove a card and put it in other pile, performer knows both after looking through one of the piles, also over phone
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Biddle Steal Separation
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Karl Fulves Rite Minded card moved from one half to the other, then deck assembled and card found, fast clocking
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Karl Fulves Pre-Existing Memory red and black card moved from one half to other, both found, partial clocking
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Karl Fulves Clocking with Objects objects with names that have a certain number of letters in a box, removed object identified by counting letters of others
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Karl Fulves Eminent Domain strategy in which red cards in bottom half are clocked, and black cards in top half, card moved from half to half can be identified, see also p. 73
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Karl Fulves Strongest Suit two cards reversed are identified via "eminent domain" card counting
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Karl Fulves Thot By Proxy spectator removed queen and any card from same suit, they're divined
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Karl Fulves Max Moe two cards are moved, see also p. 67
VariationsAlso published here 36
Karl Fulves Clockwork on card counting with "mechanical assistance"
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Karl Fulves Line of Sight edge marks on twelve cards combined with card counting
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Karl Fulves Light Fingered two cards removed from upper and lower half of deck after riffle shuffles, performer looks through deck and names both
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Karl Fulves Unique Sums set-up so that two cards removed from a certain part still produce unique clocking value
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Karl Fulves Lettra Set two missing cards found with clocking and faro-shuffled set-up
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Karl Fulves, Stewart James Stax Fax stacks that force numbers, see also p. 68
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S. H. Paine Paine Set-Up for a number force, 14-15
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Karl Fulves Clockwork deck cut, cut in half and any card removed, performer looks through this pile and names card
  • The System
  • First case
  • Second Case
  • Third Case
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Karl Fulves Phone Detective previous "Clockwork" deck as telephone trick
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Karl Fulves 13 O'Clock two cards chosen with cutting procedure are found
Inspired by 56
Karl Fulves Modulus Operandi how to practice card counting mod different bases
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Karl Fulves Booked Up torn and balled-up book pages, one chosen and word on it divined, clocking page numbers
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Karl Fulves Grudge Match Miraskill type bet with red-red, black-black and mixed pairs done with about half the shuffled deck, winner still known
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Karl Fulves Cold Case card removed from pile to pile and located, only clocked total of one half known in advance
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Karl Fulves Counterfeit credits for "Counterfeat" betting game in which spectator and performer construct poker hand from face-up spread
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Karl Fulves Telephone Stud further credits for "Calling Ms. Modulo"
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Karl Fulves Moe By Phone and further references for the plot
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Karl Fulves Pictorials clocking other things than the values
  • Mid Count
  • Corner & Curves
  • Line Count (ESP)
  • Lines And Curves
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Karl Fulves Royal Flush Clock spectator removes any Royal Flush card, performer quickly goes through deck and removes card from same Royal Flush
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Karl Fulves Double Card Count two cards removed, still found with card counting
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Karl Fulves Further References list of card counting tricks in Karl Fulves's output
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Data entered by Denis Behr, December 2015.