Authentic (more or less)

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Unknown The "Three Card" Trick with bent corner Modern Magic 76
Unknown The "Three-Card" Trick with psychology & bent corner More Magic 51
Unknown Three Card Monte two methods for the Throw Switch The Expert at the Card Table 117
Unknown Mexican Three Card Monte featuring the Mexican Turnover The Expert at the Card Table 122
Jack Merlin Three Card Monte routine, with bent corner ploy Merlin at the Card Table 4
John Scarne Introduction John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 11
Unknown Grifter's Signals - The Call Method
- The Hand Method
- The Head Method		 John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 13
Unknown Familiar Phrases in Gambling - Hipe
- Shills or Cappers
- Money Bag
- Under-throw
- Over-throw		 John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 14
John Scarne Three Card Monte basics John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 16
John Scarne A Series of Deceptive Moves - Number One
- Number Two - All Red
- Number Three - All Black
- Number Four
- Number Five - All Right Hand
- Number Six
- Number Seven - One Hand Deal		 John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 18
Unknown Bent or Crimped Corner "Grifter Method" John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 22
Unknown The Flip (?) "sort of Mexican turn over" John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 24
Unknown The Flip-Change John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 24
John Scarne Moves with Flip and Flip-Change John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 24
Unknown Grifter's Marked Corner "Using the Flip and Flip-Change" John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 27
John Scarne Scarne's Method of the Crimped Corner John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 32
John Scarne Scarne's Monte Slide two card switched, Optical Monte Move John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 28
John Scarne Scarne's Triple Climax with obvious one-way backsRelated to John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 30
John Scarne Scarne's Marked Corner John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 34
John Scarne The Stamped Ace - Scarne's Method John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 36
John Scarne Scarne's Method of Torn Corner John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 38
John Scarne Scarne's Push Over Change Optical Monte Move John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 39
Unknown Now Try This Move on Your Friends sequence with Mexican Turnover John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 40
Unknown The Daub John Scarne explains Why You Can't Win! 40
Al Baker The Fall of the Wise sucker for wise guys, gaffed The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Cardially Yours) 492
Unknown Two Card Monte with the Torn Corner Added Greater Magic 307
Jean Hugard Cops and Crooks story presentation for 3 Card Monte Tricks and Sleights 5
Elray Hey...Rube! story of a con men, marking cards at a three card monte game with daub The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 73) 297
Unknown Monte by "Bertram", told by Dai Vernon The Phoenix 101-150 (Issue 143) 573
Cy Endfield Tacked Extra Corner-Piece. Variation with specially printed cardRelated to The Phoenix 151-200 (Issue 199) 795
Bruce Elliott On A Tear monte, tearing up corner, false index The Phoenix 201 - 250 (Issue 239) 954
Jackie Flosso The Easiest Monte card vanishes and appears face up in deck The Phoenix 251 - 300 (Issue 258) 1033
Frank Garcia Garcia's Clip It monte, card marked with paper clipAlso published here The Phoenix 251 - 300 (Issue 258) 1030
Cy Endfield The Bent Corner Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 9
Cy Endfield The Routine incl. Bent Corner, Pencil Mark, Tacked Card Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 15
Cy Endfield The Pencil Mark on the Card Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 11
Cy Endfield The Tacked Card Extra Corner-Piece. Variation with specially printed cardRelated to Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 13
Cy Endfield The Three Card Monte Basic Moves Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 5
Audley Walsh Paper Clip Climax Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 17
Cy Endfield Preparation of the Cards. (a) The Bridging Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic - Part II 6
Frank Garcia Clip It monte, card marked with paper clipAlso published here The Best in Magic 170
Dai Vernon Three Card Monte Routine, including bent corner Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic 15
Dai Vernon The Use of a short Card Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic 20
Ralph Greenwood Three Card Monte Idea The New Phoenix 351-400 (Issue 394) 406
Jay Ose Little Queenie with bent corner The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3, No. 2) 143
Frank Garcia Don't Bet On It! remarks about Three Card Monte Don't Bet On It 15
Frank Garcia I Didn't Know That! about the origins of Three Card Monte Don't Bet On It 18
Frank Garcia "Queer Money" counterfeit money used in Three Card Monte Don't Bet On It 19
Frank Garcia The Real Secrets of 3 Card Monte about Three Card Monte on the streets with the subchapters:
- "A Game For All Seasons"
- "If YOu Bet Fast, You Can't Last! If You Bet Slow, You've Got To Go"
- Don't Think You're So Smart!
- The Code Is Out. The Cigarette Method
- The Head Method
- The Call Method or The Sleight of Mouth Method
- The Money Method		 Don't Bet On It 20
Frank Garcia The Right Cards to Use Don't Bet On It 29
Frank Garcia Putting the "Ear" in or Putting the "Lug" in - The Bent or Crimped Corner
- The Bent Corner
- Still Another Method of "Putting The Ear In"		 Don't Bet On It 39
Jay Ose Another Jay Ose Tip treatment of cards for 3 Card Monte Don't Bet On It 47
Frank Garcia A Move for the "Sucker" Don't Bet On It 52
Frank Garcia Three Different Ways of Bending the Cards Don't Bet On It 54
Frank Garcia Additional Effective Practice Exercises seven exercises and sequences Don't Bet On It 56
Frank Garcia Putting the "Gaffer" in card is marked, bent corner alternative Don't Bet On It 66
Milton Kort The Master "Bust Out Move" also known as The "Bass Ackward" Move piece of tissue paper is stuck on queen Don't Bet On It 69
Unknown The Postage Stamp Mystery stamp stuck on queen Don't Bet On It 73
Unknown "If You're Still Not Convinced" stamp stuck on queen Don't Bet On It 75
Unknown The Torn Corner duplicate corner Don't Bet On It 78
Charles Bertram It's So Old, It's New method is unbent card, one short Don't Bet On It 84
Bruce Elliott, Frank Garcia Clip Monte card marked with paper clip Don't Bet On It 89
Lou Lancaster 3 Card Monte Don't Bet On It 9
Frank Garcia Piccadilly Ploy Don't Bet On It 103
Greg Webb Mid-Air Exchange Han Ping Chien with cards, monte throw application The Chronicles (Issue 8) 1139
Unknown Nothing Changes "A Swindle, but Not Quite a Con"Related toAlso published here
  • "A Swindle, but Not Quite a Con" (New York Times, Feb 12, 1978)
 Interlocutor (Issue 25) 97
Jackie Flosso Three-Card Monte Exposé Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 3, No. 1) 299
Lewis Ganson Introduction The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 5
Lewis Ganson, Charles Kettle Sleight of Hand Methods - The Basic Move
- Bridging
- The Overthrow		 The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 6
S. W. Erdnase, Dai Vernon Erdnase-Vernon Overthrow The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 9
Tudor Brock The Knockout Three Card Monte four phases, piece of paper is stuck on money card The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 9
Lewis Ganson, Paul Curry, Cy Endfield, Audley Walsh Convincers - The Bent Corner
- The Tacked Card (Paul Curry / Cy Endfield)
- Paper Clip Climax (Audley Walsh)		 The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 15
Unknown Street Traders' Three Card Monte with other version for the gimmick The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 21
Ron MacMillan The MacMillan Miracle movable flap The Three Card Monte as Entertainment 25
Jack McMillen "Don't Ever Bet On A Sure Thing" three card monte with a switch Sleights & Swindles 13
Bruce Cervon Basic Effect effect description The Cervon Monte 7
Bruce Cervon Cervon Monte "basic routine", three cards, visual and impossible penetrations
- Phase I - Court card from center to top
- Phase II - Court card from center to bottom
- Phase III - Court card leaves center without a move
- Phase IV - How the card moves
- Phase V - Court card moves when it's face-up		Inspired by
  • item in "Abra"
 The Cervon Monte 8
Bruce Cervon Cervon Monte, Gaffed Version - Phase I - Court card from center to top
- Phase II - Court card leaves center without a move
- Phase III - Find the Court Card Again and Again and Again
- Phase IV - Court card moves when it's face up		 The Cervon Monte 28
Unknown Monte Miracle No. 70, no bend, using optical illusion and handling cards at right angles More Self-Working Card Tricks 104
Dai Vernon Notes on the Three Card Monte torn card The Vernon Chronicles - Volume 1 180
Dai Vernon, Eugene Burger, John F. Mendoza Three-Card Monte as a Magical Entertainment presentation without the spectator guessing The Performance of Close-Up Magic 55
Bob Kohler Torn-Corner Encore Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table 42
Darwin Ortiz Darwin's Three-Card Monte real work, including bent corner Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table 36
Karl Fulves Python Monte bent corner idea, posed as problem Interlocutor (Issue 48) 204
Alexander de Cova Gambler's Switch with bills or wallet, as monte climax Ein Profi packt aus... 163
Unknown Two Card Monte Handling Magic with Credit Cards 59
Karl Fulves Nothing Changes article about three-card monte hustlingRelated to Verbatim (Issue 9) 113
Allan Ackerman, Roger Klause A No-Throw Monte Las Vegas Kardma 153
Unknown Slide Monte with short card The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 8) 24
Alexander de Cova Perfect 9-Card-Monte with three-card-monte introInspired by Secrets No. 2 33
Andrew Wimhurst Yellow Kid's Monte card to Wallet Climax Low Down Dirty Tricks 21
Milton Kort Diminishing Monte Ace, Two, Three of Spades - spectator cannot get money card (Ace, Two or Three), duplicate Kort 11
Andrew Wimhurst The Full Monte (Yellow Kid's Monte) card to wallet climax, using fake index card Jiggery Pokery 17
David Malek Magicians Monte with sucker moves, two phases Rebel without a Pause 30
Luc Sante Three Card Monte Note Also published here
  • New York Times, 4-15-02
 Latter Day Secrets (Issue 7) 268
Jack Carpenter Bent Corner Method for the 3-Card Monte Pasteboard Palette 10
Karl Fulves Monte Cardo switch with bills as climax Prolix (Issue 1) 50
Jack Avis Random Notes using rulerInspired by
  • "Three Card Trick" (G. Boyce, Mahatma, Vol. 7 No. 6, 1903)
 Rara Avis 24
Karl Fulves The Money Card "Unexplained"
obvious one-way backs, money card "accidentally" gets turned around, posed as a problem		 Prolix (Issue 3) 180
Justin Higham Longitudinal Monte three Card Monte tabled routine, cards held longitudinallyInspired by
  • "Marlo's Monte & Moves" (Edward Marlo, The Sorcerer's Eyes, Vol. 3, Issue 33-36, 1981)
 Dexterity Manual 33
Fred Robinson Three Card Monte off-beat move The Magic of Fred Robinson 122
Roberto Giobbi Staging a Three-Card Monte Game useful for presentation Secret Agenda (Issue June 24) 188
Harry Lorayne Monte Monte Plus routine for "Monte Plus" and "Monte Plus Plus" moves Special Effects 77
Eugene Burger Three Card Monte as a Magical Entertainment Seventeen Secrets - Volume 2 19
Steve Beam Eight Against One Finish for 3 card monte where target card vanishes and a four of a kind is produced.Related to Semi-Automatic Card Tricks - Volume 10 69
Roberto Giobbi Slang for Authenticity Hidden Agenda (Issue May 27) 151
Paul Vigil 3-Card Monte multiple phases, credit information on fake index monte routinesInspired by
  • "Catch 33" (Lee Asher, 2003, 2013)
 The Doors of Deception 41
Joey Burton, Paul Vigil Sosi Switch Inspired by
  • "Sosi Switch" (Joey Burton, Catch 33)
 The Doors of Deception 57
Bruce Cervon Cervon Finale previously unpublished phase The Doors of Deception 60
Lee Asher Spectator picks the right Card how to handle the situationAlso published here
  • Catch 33 (2003, 2013)
 The Doors of Deception 68
Joey Burton, Paul Vigil Kaiser Con Inspired by
  • "Kaiser Con" (Joey Burton, Catch 33)
 The Doors of Deception 51
Johnny Thompson The Gambler's Ballad gambling demonstration with Matching the Card finale, magician vs. gambler theme, rhyming patter The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1) 27