Gene Maze And The Art Of Bottom Dealing

1994
Written by Stephen Hobbs
Work of Gene Maze
197 pages (Hardcover), published by Kaufman and Greenberg
Illustrated with drawings by Earle Oakes
Language: English
76 entries
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Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Richard Kaufman Introduction
ix
Darwin Ortiz Foreword
xi
Stephen Hobbs Preface
xiii
Gene Maze Acknowledgements
xvi
Gene Maze Basic Bottom Deal
  • Overview
  • The Left-Hand Grip
  • The Right-Hand Grip
  • The Dealing Action and the Take
  • Deck Thickness
  • Dealing Style
  • Noise
  • Cover (Sweep Cover)
  • Attitude
  • On the Maze Bottom Dealing Grip
 		2
Gene Maze Underhand Stud Bottom Deal
  • The Overhand Stud Deal
  • The Underhand Stud Deal
  • The Underhand Stud Bottom Deal
  • The Concealed Back
 		15
Gene Maze The Switch-Out Sequence for small packet, Daley's Last Trick application
 		21
Gene Maze The Underhand Stud Second Deal brief
 		22
Gene Maze Double Deal
  • The Left-Hand Grip & Dealing Action
  • The Right-Hand Take
 		23
Gene Maze Back-Take Bottom Deal
  • The Left-Hand Grip
  • The Dealing Action and the Take
 		27
Gene Maze One-Handed Bottom Deal
  • The Left-Hand Grip
  • The "Get-Ready"
  • The Dealing Action
  • The Side Toss Dealing Action
 		32
Gene Maze One-Handed Bottom Deal Control
37
Gene Maze The Maze Center Deal
  • The Maze Center Deal Get-Ready
  • The Left-Hand Center Deal Grip
  • The Dealing Action
  • The "Take"
 		39
Gene Maze Table Replacement Control selection cut into tabled deck followed by riffle shuffle
 		48
Automatic Rear Jog with hidden card, brief
 		50
Gene Maze Push-Through Subtlety tilting deck for strip-out
 		52
Gene Maze Second Deal Lap
Related to 55
Gene Maze Bottom Deal Lap dealing top card and lapping all cards underneath, clean-up for packet tricks, brief
 		56
Gene Maze Unit Grip discussion of position
 		57
Gene Maze Triple Threat three selection shuffled face-up into three piles, three numbers named and selection appear at those numbers face-up
Also published here 62
Gene Maze The Zodiac Card card placed reversed in deck, its value counted from this position leads to selection
Related toVariations 63
Gene Maze Odd Man Out spectator stops at only black card in 15-cards-packet or red cards
 		66
Gene Maze Cased Lightning deck in case and window on side of case, aces apparently dealt out of this window
Inspired by 67
Gene Maze Separation Steal deck put in case and some cards loaded to outside of case
 		68
Gene Maze Miss-Matched two cards stopped at, they're not mates, but mates are found when dealing twice to their added value
Variations 70
Martin A. Nash Up-and-Down Shuffle transferring top cards to bottom during riffle shuffle
 		70
Gene Maze Match-Missed two cards stopped at, they're not mates, then first card changes into mate of second card
 		74
Gene Maze MindBreaker spectator choses card in blue-backed deck, rest changes to red cards, inverted Brainwave
Also published here 76
Gene Maze Packet Turnover Lap lapping card as packet is turned over in hand
Related to 77
Gene Maze Follow the Joker ten Jokers and ten blank cards, bottom deal and second deal handlings
 		80
Gene Maze Passing Through push-through failure with two odd-backed halves, three mate pairs in other half
 		82
Gene Maze Return Trip one deck dealt through and two cards are reversed when spectator calls stop, push-through failure with second deck, mates next to reversed cards
 		86
Gene Maze Double Deal Aces spectator stops twice during deal and those two cards are reversed, on either side of each card aces are found
 		90
Gene Maze Magnetic Attraction spectator stops twice during deal and those two cards are reversed, on either side of them are the mates of opposite color
 		92
Gene Maze Open-Face Poker Stock apparently aces stacked with one shuffle, then fours with one shuffle
 		93
Double Deal Stacking
93
Gene Maze Inverted Poker push-through failure with aces that are then reversed in position for dealing
 		95
Gene Maze Big Oversight Aces put on top, instantly poker hands are dealt out and Aces received
Inspired by 98
Dai Vernon Strip Out Addition
99
Gene Maze Duo-Mental two selections in two piles end up at same position, using one-handed bottom deal
 		104
Gene Maze Mated cards dealt from both hands simultaneously, stopped several times, mates each time
 		106
Gene Maze "5 & 10, Not the Store" two cards find mates, then a coin appears under each pair
 		109
Gene Maze Face-Up Locator spectator stabs card next to selection
Related to
  • "Stabbed in the Pack" (Michael Skinner, Professional Close-Up Magic video 2, 1998)
 112
Gene Maze One-Handed Open Double Deal apparently top two cards are dealt on table one-handed, really one comes from bottom (Michael Skinner?)
 		113
Gene Maze Toss-In locator card tossed into dribbled cards, but not next to selection, it transforms into selection
Related to 114
Gene Maze Caught in the Act selection trapped between sandwich cards in center of deck with faro shuffle
 		116
Gene Maze Sympathetic Thoughts Passing Through two selection from two decks match, then are exchanged via push-through failure
 		118
Gene Maze Criss-Cross two black queens should be followed by spectator and eventually transform into red queens
Related to 120
Gene Maze The Flying Color Change top card of deck is spun into air and changes, actually one-handed bottom deal
 		123
Gene Maze Mirror Image indicator card is counted down to from both sides of faced deck, mates, center deal
 		128
Gene Maze Center Deal Mated: Nos. 1 & 2 two methods, using center deal
 		130
Gene Maze Control of the Colors using center deal, Spade Flush finale
Inspired by 132
Gene Maze Unit Grip Addition two cards become 5
 		135
Gene Maze Hard Way Poker first real riffle stacking, then pseudo one-shuffle stack, actually center deal
 		137
Gene Maze A Touch of the Mentalist three cards each, with suggestion by Wesley James
Variations 140
Meir Yedid A Touch of the Mentalist Variation
Inspired by 144
Gene Maze Daley's Ghost
Related to 146
Gene Maze The Mexican Turnover (Maze Handling)
148
Gene Maze Ace to Five Reprise
151
Gene Maze Maze Cards Across ten red and ten black cards, three cards travel across to different positions in other packet
 		154
Gene Maze Deal Steal Deal Cop handling
Related to 154
Gene Maze Wild Card Nos. 1 & 2 No. 1: front and backs change
No. 2: routine with three selections
 		158
Gene Maze Basic Unit Grip Switch
160
Gene Maze Blockbuster Aces with poker hands in all packets as finale
 		166
Gene Maze Ezam Aces three cards put on each of the face-up aces, they turn face down, then face up again, then backs change color
 		168
Gene Maze "Going Up!" four jacks, three cards dealt on each, they travel upwards to different positions in their packets
 		171
Gene Maze Uncle Charlie's Aces ace assembly, then 3 card transposition
 		173
Gene Maze Mercury Aces
176
Gene Maze Unit Grip Addition onto packet
 		177
Gene Maze Packet Mexican Turnover packet turned over with single card
 		179
Gene Maze Maze's Progressive Aces using two bottom deals and two switches
 		181
Book Break with packet
 		185
Gene Maze Unit Grip Steal from small packet
 		186
Gene Maze Unit Grip Addition to small packet
 		188
Gene Maze Disassembly of the Aces
189
Stephen Hobbs Select Bibliography (With Annotations) sources for false dealing and for Gene Maze's work
 		192
Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2016.