Table Faro

51 entries in Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Charles T. Jordan	Perfect Riffle Shuffle	without details, four shuffles for sixteen cards to recycle, "Mr. Downs, however, can handle a full pack of 52 cards with the degree of dexterity necessary to restore its original order."	Also published here Perfect Riffle Shuffle (Charles T. Jordan, Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks, 1975)	1919/1920	Thirty Card Mysteries	32	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
	Dovetail Faro Shuffle	brief		1930	Here's Magic	38	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Charlie Miller	Perfect Riffle Shuffle	two methods	Related to The Faro Shuffle (Tom Batchelor, Ireland's Yearbooks, 1968) Variations Zarrow Faro Shuffle (Karl Fulves, Setting Up Exercises*, 1995)	1940	Expert Card Technique	65	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Russell "Rusduck" Duck	A Few Tips on the Perfect Riffle Shuffle			Feb. 1957	The Cardiste (Issue 1)	16	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Faro Riffle Shuffle			1958	The Faro Shuffle	13	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Variations in Technique on the Faro Riffle Shuffle	five variations		1958	The Faro Shuffle	16	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	In the Hands	table faro done without table		1958	The Faro Shuffle	19	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / In the Hands Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	The Butt Faro			1958	The Faro Shuffle	21	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Lin Searles	Table Faro as Slow-Motion Riffle Shuffle	presentational ploy for shuffling very slow		1959	Slow Motion Poker Deals	2	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	The Riffle Weave	alternating top ten cards during riffle shuffle		1964	Faro Controlled Miracles	3	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Joseph K. Schmidt	One-Hand Table Faro	good luck	Related to One Hand Riffle Shuffle (Joseph K. Schmidt, , Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1944)	July 1971	Epilogue (Issue 12)	94	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / One handed Shuffles Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Faro Riffle Shuffle	detailed	Also published here Faro Riffle Shuffle (Edward Marlo, Marlo on Erdnase, 2007)	Oct. 1972	Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 10)	75	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Jon Racherbaumer	Editor's Prologue	general comments on the Table Faro		Oct. 1972	Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 10)	75	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Dai Vernon	Vernon's Perfect Riffle Shuffle	No. 117, only one sentence		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	35	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Martin A. Nash	The Table Faro Revisited	see p. 443 for additional crediting		1975	Ever So Sleightly	41	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Charles T. Jordan	Perfect Riffle Shuffle	without details, four shuffles for sixteen cards to recycle, "Mr. Downs, however, can handle a full pack of 52 cards with the degree of dexterity necessary to restore its original order."	Also published here Perfect Riffle Shuffle (Charles T. Jordan, Thirty Card Mysteries, 1919/1920)	1975	Charles T. Jordan: Collected Tricks	131	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Mathematical Facts & Curiosities Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
	Partial Table Faro	brief		1978	The Book of John	2	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle		Related to About the Tabled Riffle Faro (Jeff Busby, The Secret of the Palmettos, 1998)	1982	Card Finesse	149	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Controlling Ins and Outs			1982	Card Finesse	152	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Ken Simmons	Tabled Faro Slough Off			1986	Riffling the Pasteboards	7	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Partial Faro Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Karl Fulves Shuffle	handling for partial table faro		1987	Riffle Shuffle Methods	27	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
	Perfect Riffle Shuffle	very brief		1992	Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks	124	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Matthew Field	The Final Secret Of Charles Jordan	humorous table faro based on a strange illustration in the Jordan book	Inspired by A Shuffle Secret (Charles T. Jordan, Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks, 1992)	Apr. 1993	MAGIC (Vol. 2 No. 8)	59	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	The Even Riffle	chapter 5 intro, on riffle faro (real riffling) stacking, center stacking		1995	Setting Up Exercises	33	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / General Comments Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Even Riffling	even riffle exercise		1995	Setting Up Exercises	36	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Unbalanced Packets	even riffle exercise		1995	Setting Up Exercises	37	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Evenly Uneven	comments on even riffle shuffling		1995	Setting Up Exercises	40	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Why It Doesn't Work	commentary on even riffle shuffling		1995	Setting Up Exercises	44	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Timed Release	partial table faro at top		1995	Setting Up Exercises	47	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Faro Riffle Shuffle			1995	Setting Up Exercises	92	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Under Tension			1995	Setting Up Exercises	94	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Perfect Riffle Shuffle	actual riffle shuffle, includes banded deck exercise		1995	Setting Up Exercises	96	Cards / Effect Themes / Rubber Band & Cards Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Zarrow Faro Shuffle	partial faro under cover blocks	Inspired by Perfect Riffle Shuffle (Charlie Miller, Expert Card Technique, 1940) Related to Miller's Logic (Karl Fulves, The Lowdown*, 2015)	1995	Setting Up Exercises	100	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Doug Edwards	One-Hand Table Faro			1997	Doug Edwards Packs a Wallop!	99	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Jeff Busby	Riffle Shuffle Convincer	combination of tabled faro with Zarrow to apparently shuffle twice and have a fair squaring action (optionally by spectator) after the Zarrow with still incompletely squared deck	Inspired by Jack McMillen concept from "L. W. False Shuffle" (William Larsen Sr., T. Page Wright, Genii, Feb. 1937) Related to Svengali-ish Convincer (Justin Higham, Dexterity Manual, 2008) Pre-Faroed Shank Shuffle (Justin Higham, Highlights, 2015)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	113	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Zarrow type Shuffles
Jeff Busby	About the Tabled Riffle Faro	credit information and comments	Related to Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle (Edward Marlo, Card Finesse, 1982) Card Finesse (Jeff Busby, Various, Jon Racherbaumer, Epoptica, 1982)	1998	The Secret of the Palmettos	121	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Karl Fulves*	Tips on the Perfect Riffle Shuffle		Related to last ten minutes of Video Trix	2000	Latter Day Secrets (Issue 4)	81	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Edward Marlo	Faro Riffle Shuffle		Also published here Faro Riffle Shuffle (Edward Marlo, Kabbala — Volume 1, 1972)	2007	Marlo on Erdnase	42	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Jon Racherbaumer	On the Slant	Incognito (David Eagleman, 2011) No Ands, Ifs, or Butts (on the Tabled Faro, with actual riffling, Volitional Table Faro)		Sep. 2011	Genii (Vol. 74 No. 9)	13	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro Articles / Columns
Pepe Lirrojo	Mezcla en la Mesa			2016	Panpharos	11	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Pepe Lirrojo	Mezcla a una sola Mano	one-handed faro on the table, brief		2016	Panpharos	12	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Pepe Lirrojo	Mezcla por Riffleo perfecta	brief, perfect riffle shuffle		2016	Panpharos	12	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Ryan Murray	The Tabled Faro			2018	Curious Weaving	xviii	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Ryan Murray	Checking the Weave			2018	Curious Weaving	xxi	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Ryan Murray	The Perfect Riffle Shuffle	Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Thirds (AABAAB pattern) Facilitated Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Thirds Perfect Riffle Shuffle in Pairs (double faro)		2018	Curious Weaving	22	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Oddities Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Steve Forte	Classification	off-the-table top to bottom bottom to top riffle faro		2020	Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1	257	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / General Comments Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / In the Hands Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Steve Forte	Bottom-to-top Stack	tabled		2020	Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1	261	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
	faro twist	by hustler PMH, table faro with break, after faro the break can be taken above or below the card that is faroed into the break		2020	Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1	264	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Steve Forte	Riffle Faro	only bottom half faroed, also while holding break		2020	Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1	268	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Faro Stacking Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Greg Chapman	How to do a Perfect Tabled Faro	no riffling		2020	Faro Fundamentals	22	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro
Sara Rodríguez	My Take on the Tabled Faro Shuffle	"aka Back to Order with Eight 'Not-So-Accurate' Tips"		July 2025	Genii (Vol. 88 No. 7)	48	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Table Faro