The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier

Book
2015
Written by Bob Farmer
Work of Bob Farmer, Various
400 pages (Hardcover), published by Magicana
Illustrated with drawings by Tony Dunn
Language: English
208 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Bob Farmer Acknowledgments
Bob Farmer Part One: The Ten Card Deal
  • Introduction
  • The Basic Principle
  • Jonah
  • Statistical Analysis
  • References
  • How to Read this Book
  • Origins
 		1
Bob Farmer How Belly Strippers Work
Related to
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Dai Vernon Sure Fire Showdown
Also published here
Related to
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Bob Farmer Poker comment on the publication in Card Control
Related to
  • Poker (Card Control, 1946)
 10
Bob Farmer Baseless Speculation how the Jonah principle might have been discovered
 		10
Bob Farmer Magic Appears about the need to routine the basic Jonah principle
 		11
Bob Farmer The Phoenix 1949 reprinted with commentary
The Phoenix #168 - Ten Card Deal
  • Vernon and the Mexican Gambler
  • Presentation
  • Jonah On Top
  • Jonah On Bottom
  • Jonah Second From Top
  • Spectator Second Deals
  • Spectator Shuffles
  • Ace As Jonah On Top
  • Credits
The Phoenix #170 - Ten Card Deal P.S.
  • Martin Gardner
  • Ed Marlo
  • Bert Allerton
  • Biddle Move
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 13
John Murray Take Ten applying the Jonah Card in the style of Ted Annemann, all cards put in envelopes
Also published here
Related to
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Bob Farmer Stratagems - Which Cards to Use
  • Creations Of Science Aid Intelligent Design
 		19
Bob Farmer Getting the Cards into Play
23
David (Foote) Drake Getting Into The Ten Card Poker Deal starting with full deck
Also published here
 24
Allan Slaight Build Down poker routine that ends with necessary ten cards
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 25
Max Maven* Decimix
26
Nicholas Johnson Meet And Greet
27
Stu Lewis Spectator Does a False Cut to get into Ten Card Poker Deal
Related to
  • "Jonah Card Routine" (Stu Lewis, Linking Ring, Dec. 1977)
 28
Nick Trost 20-Card Poker Deal
Also published here
 28
Bob Farmer False Shuffles for small packet, cut procedure
Related to
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Bob Farmer, Steve Mayhew Bolo Jonah methods for marking the Jonah card
  • Marked Cards
  • Short and Long Cards
  • Snap Crimp (Mayhew)
Related to
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Woody Aragón, Bob Farmer Aragon Attractor
  • Woody's Effect
  • Vernet
  • Wallet
Related to
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Bob Farmer Forcing the Jonah collection of several methods
  • Odd/Even
  • Shuffle and Deal
  • Face-Up Or Face-Down
  • Combinations
  • Deal Equivoque
  • Bare Faced Lie
  • Australian Down Under Deal
  • Psychological Force
 		33
Allan Ackerman Odd Even
34
Max Maven* Jonumber
35
Larry Becker Reverse Faro
36
Ken Beale The Beale Deal
  • Equivoque
  • Variation 1-3
 		36
R. Paul Wilson, Bob Farmer Con Cam Coincidencia
  • To do this as a Stud Deal
 		37
Roy Baker, Bob Farmer Pateo
38
Bob King Fourdoomed
38
Mike Daniels StayCard Principle
38
Bob Farmer Ten Card (Second and Bottom) Deals false deals from small packet
 		39
9-as-10 Dodge
40
11-as-10 Dodge
Related to
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
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Peter Duffie 12-as-10 Dodge
40
Nick Trost Eighteen Cards
41
Tomas Blomberg Add-Ons
41
Harry G. Franke Long Card "Harry Franke, Jr."
 		42
Karl Fulves* Proposition Bet
Related to
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Bob Farmer Poker Savvy
  • Displaying The Winning Hand
  • Faking A Knowledge Of Poker
 		42
Bob Farmer Wait and Switch on "New Endings"
 		44
Steve Mayhew The Angels May Shuffle, But The Devil Still Deals
Also published here
Related to
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Bob Farmer CADD Cut-and-Deal-Down Force, see later
Related to
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Jeff Pierce, Ryan Schlutz Luck of the Draw blanks finale
 		46
Harold Cataquet, Bob Farmer Cheater, Cheater color changing backs finale
 		46
Stewart James Psychic Bid Spelling
47
Stephen Hobbs, Robert E. Neale Ten Card Wild
Also published here
Related to
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Mike Porstmann Porstmann's Paladin "Final Instructions" in envelope
 		48
Patrick Schlagel Teleological Existentialism
49
Peter Duffie Gambler's Forecast with prediction
Also published here
 50
Max Maven* Pretense with prediction
Also published here
 50
Bob Farmer Equivo-Ten
51
Thomas Alan Waters Decideal see details below
Related to
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Larry Becker Ten Card Poker Stand-Up with prediction
Also published here
 52
Leo Boudreau Predicting The Winning Hand
52
Bob Farmer Presentations for the Ten Card Poker Deal
 		52
Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Anderson Jonah in Harry's Pocket
53
Bob Farmer One Jonah
  • Introduction
  • The Sultans Of Swindle
 		57
Harry Lorayne Ten Card Poker Deal six phases
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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John F. Mendoza The Ten Card Poker Killer
Also published here
Inspired by
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Basil Horwitz Challenge Poker Routine three phases
Also published here
 69
Nicholas Johnson Cutting for the Edge
73
Jerry K. Hartman Tete a Tete
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
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Brother John Hamman Magician Versus Gambler
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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Brother John Hamman Fan Gaffs cards with stepped fans
 		84
Steve Mayhew The 50 Card Deal playing with five spectators simultaneously
Variations
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Bob Farmer Fished In And Chips
Inspired by
 89
R. Paul Wilson Go Fisch four phases
Inspired by
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Curtis Kam Shooting Fish In A Barrel
Inspired by
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John Scarne Scarne's $500 Poker Deal
Related to
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Nick Trost Twenty-Deck Poker Deal
93
Nick Trost, Bob Farmer Full-Deck Ten Card Poker
Inspired by
 93
Bob King, Mike Porstmann Power Poker "Final Instructions" in envelope, four phases
Related to
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Robert E. Neale Six-Card Deal
Also published here
  • "Six Card Deal" (Live, Death & Other Card Tricks, 2000)
 98
Robert E. Neale Jonah Wild
  • Presentation For A Last Deal: Wild Deal
  • Presentation For A One-Time Deal: Still Lucky
Related to
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James Swain Showdown
Also published here
 104
Derek Dingle Strip-Out Addition Switch
105
Patrick G. Redford* 30 Card Poker Deal three phases, no explanation
Related to
  • "30 Card Poker Deal" (Redford, Square: Four Deadly Mental Feats With Cards)
 106
Darwin Ortiz Mexican Poker five phases, no explanation
Related to
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Bob Farmer Two Jonahs
  • Introduction
 		109
Paul Curry Cider! two Jonahs
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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Thomas Alan Waters Decideal with prediction, two Jonahs
Also published here
Inspired by
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
Related to
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Philip T. Goldstein* Second Hand brief
Related to
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Karl Fulves* Even Money Proposition brief outline
Related to
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Karl Fulves* Automatic Poker
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 115
Nick Trost Ten Card Poker Idea
Also published here
 116
Charles Nyquist Nick the Greek Poker Deal
Inspired by
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
 117
Peter Kougasian Psych-Out Poker
Also published here
 119
Lewis Jones Sweeter Cider
Also published here
Inspired by
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
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Jon Racherbaumer, Edward Marlo Strong Cider
Also published here
  • MUM, July 1981
Inspired by
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
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Ernest Earick Double Damned
Also published here
Variations
 123
Tom Frame Well-Appointed Stud
Also published here
  • "Well-Appointed Stud" (Scary Hotels, 1995)
Inspired by
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R. Paul Wilson Progressive Poker four phases
Also published here
  • also in: "Progressive Poker" (Paul Wilson, 2006)
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Peter Duffie Fair Game
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
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Peter Duffie Unfair Game two double facers
Inspired by
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Nick Trost Showdown three phases
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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Tom Hubbard Tom Hubbard's Handling
Also published here
Inspired by
 141
René Lavand Mahtub seven phases, with Bob Farmer comments:
  • Alternate Deal Five
  • Alternate Deal 7
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
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Bob Farmer Notes: Showdown/Mahtub
Related to
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Tom Ellis The Tim Card Poker Deal
Also published here
  • marketed in 2006
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Bob Farmer Rich Weeviled Brain Enigma three phases
 		151
Michael Weber Ha, No Jonah without method
Related to
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Nick Trost Super Showdown four phases
Also published here
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer Eight Jonahs intro
 		161
Nick Trost Automatic Gambler
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
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Bob Farmer Automatic Gambler About Face
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer The Automatic Blind Gambler using CADD Force
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer The Automatic Gambler Magic Circle
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer Eighteen Jonahs intro
 		169
Nick Trost Eighteen Card Poker morphing Jonah
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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Bruce Bernstein Psych Out four phases
Also published here
  • marketed 1985
Related to
Variations
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Nick Trost Mississippi Poker five phases
Also published here
Inspired by
 183
Tony Binarelli The Cincinnati Kid Poker Game
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 189
Bob Farmer Strip Club with CADD Force, belly strippers
  • CADD
  • Power Poker
  • Bottom Dealing
  • Trap Dance I
  • Trap Dance II
Inspired by
Variations
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Jerry K. Hartman Trap Dance III
Inspired by
 197
Robert E. Neale The Idiot Poker Plot
Also published here
  • "The Idiot Poker Plot" (Tricks of the Imagination, 1991)
 198
Woody Aragón Blessed Poker
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
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Bob Farmer The CADD Force chapter intro, Cut-and-Deal-Down Force
Related to
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Bob Farmer Russian Poker Roulette top cards of ten piles used for poker game
Also published here
 213
Bob Farmer CADD Force Cut-and-Deal-Down Force, spectator cuts off a pile and deals the rest into x piles, the top cards are forced
Also published here
 213
Bob Farmer Jonah You CADD
216
Tony Griffith How to Win at Poker
  • We Will Get Fooled Again
  • Royal Flush Variation
Also published here
  • "A Demonstration on How to Win at Poker" (Magic Circular #56, 1961)
 217
Nick Trost Gambler's Poker Routine
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
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Jon Racherbaumer History historical discussion, excerpt from reference, re-deal stacking
Also published here
  • Dust-Motes in the Grid, 1999
 221
Bob Farmer Magic Magazine chapter intro, following routine are from Bob Farmer's MAGIC column that started in 1994
 		225
Bob Farmer Done Deal I: Spectator Deals done from deck
Also published here
 225
Bob Farmer Done Deal II: Spectator Deals done from deck, belly strippers
Also published here
 227
Bob Farmer Done Deal III: Pairs performer is blindfolded
  • Equivoque Selecting the Hands
Also published here
 227
Bob Farmer Done Deal IV: Blind Psycho performer is blindfolded
  • Selecting The Hole Cards
  • Selecting The Hands
Also published here
 229
Bob Farmer Done Deal III and IV Combo
Also published here
 230
Bob Farmer Done Deal V: The Scam-and-Scram Ten Card Deal
Also published here
Related to
Variations
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Scott Cram, R. Paul Wilson, Peter Duffie Notes On Scam And Scram
Inspired by
Related to
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Bob Farmer Done Deal VI spectator cuts deck and deals, loses, blocks are strung together to force cut position
Also published here
 233
Bill Spooner Spooner's Specialty Force blocks are strung together to force cut position
Also published here
Variations
 233
Bob Farmer Done Deal VII spectator cuts and deals two hands, loses, five duplicate Ten Card Poker sets
Also published here
 234
Bob Farmer Glasgow Rules, O.K.? chapter intro
 		235
Roy Walton* The Twenty Card Deal
Also published here
Variations
 235
Peter Duffie Three Handed Ten Card Deals
  • Dead Beat
  • Oblivious
Variations
 237
Bob Farmer No Palming, No Cry
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer Macao Marauder
Inspired by
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Jonas Ljung Kismet Poker five poker hands dealt, performer wins and hand is predicted
Also published here
Inspired by
 239
David Britland The Last Game
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 245
Peter Duffie The Zen Card Deal
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 249
Roger Crosthwaite Father Roger Crosthwaite Addition
Inspired by
 252
Bob Farmer Nine Card Hold'em
  • Bobservations
  • The Real Rules
  • The Flim-Flam Rules
  • The Scam
  • First Deal: Flush
  • Second Deal: Straight
  • Third Deal
Also published here
  • also in: Flim-Flam column in Genii
 253
Bob Farmer Ten Card Unreal intro
  • When Magicians Take A Principle Further Than It Should Go
 		257
Jeff Pierce Pabst Blue Ribbon Poker Deal playing with bottle caps instead of cards, performer wins beer
 		257
Nick Trost Special Poker Dice played with dice
Also published here
  • "Special Poker Dice" (Nick Trost, Gambling Tricks with Dice, 1975)
 260
Dice Paddle Move
261
Nick Trost Spinning Nickel Poker using beveled edge coins
Also published here
  • "Spinning Nickel Poker" (Nick Trost, Expert Gambling Tricks, 1975)
 263
Nick Trost Coin Switch
264
Bob Farmer Ten Bill Deal with ten bills, using their serial numbers
 		265
Robert E. Neale The Dragon and the Unicorn done with gems and a fairy tale story presentation
  • Alternate Handling
  • Bag Handling
 		266
Nick Trost Pizza Poker ten cards pasted on a round disk in a circle
Also published here
  • marketed 1972
 269
Stewart James Alpha Betting Ten Card Poker Deal principle with alphabet cards, performer can always spell a word before spectator
Also published here
  • "Alpha Betting" (Stewart James in Print, 1989)
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Bob Farmer Part Two: Deals with Ten Cards chapter intro
  • Absolute Power Poker Deceives Absolutely
 		273
Bill Simon The Four Queens Procedure eight unknown cards, spectator picks four, all Queens are in one pile
Also published here
  • "The Four Queens" (Bill Simon, Mathematical Card Magic, 1964)
Variations
 275
Jon Racherbaumer Odd Yet Predictable eight cards, spectator choses four face-up, "all red cards" is predicted, but the backs are referred to
Also published here
  • Jonah Ploys, 2013
Inspired by
  • "The Four Queens" (Bill Simon, Mathematical Card Magic, 1964)
 277
Bob Farmer Solomon is King section intro
 		278
David Solomon, John Bannon, Tomas Blomberg Mexican Poker
Related to
Variations
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Tomas Blomberg The Blomberg Variation
Inspired by
Variations
 282
R. Paul Wilson Refried Poker
Also published here
Inspired by
 284
Jerry K. Hartman Mexicali Ruse
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 288
Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Anderson Empowering Poker a Bit More
Also published here
  • Jonah Ploys, 2014
Inspired by
 291
Lewis Jones Give Me Five
Also published here
  • Encyclopedia of Impromptu Card Forces, 2000
 292
Ken De Courcy Your Choice
Also published here
  • "Your Choice" (Still Small, Still Deadly, Paul Hallas, 2010)
 293
Joshua Jay 242 2.0
  • Phase One: Blackjack
  • Phase Two: 242 Poker
  • Phase Three: Three Handed Poker
Also published here
Inspired by
 294
Alex Elmsley Power Poker
Also published here
  • Genii, Oct. 1996
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 302
Bob Farmer Vaya Con Dios Con
Also published here
Inspired by
 303
Nick Trost Double Power Poker
  • Phase One: Power Poker
  • Phase Two: Cider
Also published here
Inspired by
  • Cider! (Paul Curry, Paul Curry Presents, 1974)
    • also in:
    • Cider! (Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond, 2001)
    • Cider! (The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier, 2015)
  • Genii, Oct. 1996
 305
Peter Duffie Free Will eight cards, spectator chooses four, performer is left with Aces
Also published here
Inspired by
 307
Jerry K. Hartman Poker Stud
Also published here
Inspired by
Related to
Variations
 308
Colm Mulcahy Poker with Any Ten Cards using random cards
Related to
  • Mathematical Card Magic, 2013, p. 74
 312
Bob Farmer, Peter Winkler Winkler Poker chapter intro, Position Parity Principle
Related to
 313
Jon Racherbaumer No-Jonah Poker parity
Also published here
Variations
 314
Jack Parker Ouroboros parity
Also published here
Inspired by
Variations
 316
Jon Racherbaumer (Losing) End Poker cards taken alternately from both ends of a tabled row of cards, parity
Also published here
  • Jonah Ploys, Jon Racherbaumer, 2013
Variations
 318
Bob Farmer End Game way to get into it
Inspired by
  • Jonah Ploys, Jon Racherbaumer, 2013
 320
Brad Henderson Bottom Feeder
Inspired by
  • Jonah Ploys, Jon Racherbaumer, 2013
 320
Bob Farmer Bottom Line CADD Force, Winkler Principle
  • Wired Deck (with five Royal Flushes in Spades)
 		321
Bob Farmer Heads or Tails Hoodoo with any ten cards, face-up and face-down row
 		322
Bob Farmer Part Three: Blackjack Deals chapter intro
  • Eight Card Black Jack
 		325
Bob Farmer Blind Man's Blackjack with eight cards
 		328
Bob Farmer The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Card Blackjack routine with eight cards and Jonah card
Also published here
 329
Bob Farmer Blind Man's Blackjack Showdown with eight cards
  • No Gaff Version
 		330
Bob Farmer Power Blind Man's Blackjack from top of deck
Inspired by
  • Genii, Oct. 1996
 332
Bob Farmer Absolute Power Blind Man's Blackjack with eight cards
  • Blackjack Finale
  • Poker Phase
  • Dice Phase
 		333
Bob Farmer, Harold Cataquet Table Stakes tables about possible combinations and outcomes
  • Ten Cards
  • Choosing the Cards
  • Ten Card Deal Segue
 		339
Bob Farmer Blackjack Bonuses chapter intro
 		347
Bob Farmer Face-Up Blackjack
Also published here
Variations
 347
Bob Farmer Blackjack Attack
  • Ordinary Deck Version
Also published here
  • also in: MAGIC, 1997
Inspired by
Related to
 351
Max Maven* Blackjack of all Trades five methods
 		353
Roy Walton* Grid and Bear It
Variations
 356
Harold Cataquet Grid and Bear It II
Inspired by
 357
Harold Cataquet World's Greatest Blackjack Stack
358
Bob Farmer Part Four: Switches chapter intro
  • Wait and Switch
  • Phasers on Stun
  • Time and Reality Correction Theory
 		361
Jerry K. Hartman The Hip Hop switching poker hand after deal
Also published here
Inspired by
 365
Jack Merlin The Hop Off the Bottom switching poker hand after deal
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 366
John F. Mendoza The Louisiana Switch tabled
Also published here
Related to
 368
Theodore Annemann* The Jinx Switch
369
The Bebop Hop
Inspired by
 371
The Hop Drop
Inspired by
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Bob Farmer Credits, History and Comments on the switches just described
 		375
Eddie Fay Eddie's Hop
Also published here
Related to
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Bob Farmer Part Five: References
  • Ten Card Deal References
 		377
Bob Farmer In Conclusion
397
Bob Farmer Dealer Demo Easter Egg routine suggestion
 		398
Bob Farmer Pharaohs & Magicians introduction to extra sheet
 		401
Mike Porstmann Porstmann's Paladin on extra sheet, stage version, four phases
Also published here
  • "10 Card Poker Deal" (The Big Edge, 1999)
 401
Michał Kociołek Mike Card Deal on extra sheet, idea with reverse Jonah card
Also published here
Related to
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Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2018.