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Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jack Merlin The Story of the Cold Deck gamblers deck switch, management in a real game and in an expose
Also published here 1927/28 13
Laurie Ireland Producing Selected Card at Any Number and At The Same Time Cold Packing any card is produced from pocket at named (small) number from shuffled deck, switch for memorized deck
Related toVariations 1931 19
William Larsen Cold Deck Demonstration red and black cards transpose as pseudo deck switch demo, no method
1931 6
Arthur H. Buckley A Cold Deck Warmed Up switching 48 cards (deck minus Aces) and stack Aces into positions
1946 115
W. F. "Rufus" Steele A Lecture With a Cold Deck
1952 62
Hans "Severus" Ernst Die Geschichte vom Cold Deck on why it is called a Cold Deck
1961
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 22 No. 6)
139
Dai Vernon Cold Deck Cut
Related toVariations 1967 168
M. J. Oeink Oenik's Cold Deck No. 383, full deck stack to deal good hands for five to eight players
1972 105
Dai Vernon Cold Deck Exchange Deck switch with Topit
1975 225
Francis Carlyle Carlyle's Cold Deck Switch
1975 117
Frank Thompson Cold Deck effect summary
  • The Set Up of the Deck
1976 1
John Riggs Cold Fold card fold into quarters, bottom of the deck, finesse on Scarne's card fold
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1984 92
Darwin Ortiz Cold Deck Cut Variation Variation on Vernon's Cut
1988 65
Tabled False Cut
Related toAlso published here
  • Gambling and Gambling Devices (John Philip Quinn, 1912)
1991
Swindle Sheet (Issue 6)
72
Cold Decks
Also published here
  • How Gamblers Win (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868)
1991
Swindle Sheet (Issue 8)
96
Karl Fulves Deck Switches gambling related discussion, outline of methods to get the cold deck in play
Related to 1992
Cheat Sheet (Issue 10)
93
Jack Merlin The Story of the Cold Deck deck switch with help of tray and waiter
Also published here 1992
Cheat Sheet (Issue 10)
94
John Riggs The Cold Fold card fold into quarters, bottom of the deck, finesse on Scarne's card fold
Related toAlso published here 1995 31
Dai Vernon Dai Vernon's Cold-deck Cut
1996 389
Wesley James, Harry Lorayne Siamese Shuffle "shuffle" travels from one half to other
  • Method I
  • Method II (twenty-six double backers)
  • Method III (thirteen double backers)
  • Method IV - Cold Deck (deck switch presentation)
  • The Lorayne Approach (deck switch presentation)
Related to 1997 62
Luke Jermay Cold Emotion Spectator chooses an emotion from an E-motion deck (deck of cards with emotions written on them), magician divines it
  • Alternative Handling: One Ahead routine, use E-motion deck to divine person, place, emotion with envelopes
Variations 2002 10
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Thriceinator triple false cut on table
Inspired by 2003 32
Jerry Sadowitz Vernon/Erdnase Cut
Inspired by 2004 24
Adrian "Ramblar" Guerra Cards from Pocket Stop Trick deck in performer's pocket, one card after the other is removed and when spectator says stop, selection is found
Related toAlso published here 2004 147
Barrie Richardson Devious Deck Switch using a card case
Related to
  • "Cold Case" (Gregory Wilson)
VariationsAlso published here
  • Club 71, Aug. 1999
2005 44
Roberto Giobbi Terminology and Structure of the Deck Switch 1. Terminology
  • Cold Deck or Cooler?
  • Cold Deck!
  • Dress Map

2. Structure of the Deck Switch
  • The Diagram
  • Infrastructure
  • Logistics
  • Technique
  • Clean-up
Related to 2013 1
Roberto Giobbi Grips on the Cold Deck
  • Flat-Palm Grip
  • Tenkai Grip
  • Deep Dealing Position
2013 14
Simon Aronson Shuffle Tracking Magician locates freely selected card, in the process secretly switching deck out for memorized deck
Related to 2014 225
Roberto Giobbi Cold-deck Cut Force & Key Card Placement
Inspired by 2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue May 9)
133
John Cottle, Ben Joffe Ice Cold Decks six gambling stacks for Texas Hold'em that can be cut, yet the dealer wins, for two, three, four or eight players
Variations Sep. 2017
Operandi (Issue 3)
10
Derrick Chung Ice Cold Decks - Part 2 Hold'em stack to win with two to six players
Inspired by Dec. 2018
Operandi (Issue 4)
16
Tom Gagnon Estickmation Aces deck separated with pool cue each time
Inspired byVariations 2019 438
Shiv Duggal (reviewer) The Cold Deck Cut Project by Eddie McColl Sep. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 9)
88
Steve Forte CTB Cut/Strip "center, top, bottom", fake running cut to break near bottom
  • technical observations
    • double-cut
    • center packet
    • gaps
    • two distinct phases
Related toAlso published here 2020 83
Steve Forte cold-deck machine
2020 565
Derrick Chung Cold Deck Cut Variation incorporating a slip cut displacement
Inspired byRelated to 2022 34
Michael Close Expertalk: Michael Close on the Cold Deck Cut Vernon Cold Deck Cut followed by fake bottom strip
Inspired byAlso published here
  • MAGIC, Apr. 2007
2022 609