Phantom Of The Card Table
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Author | : David Britland |
Publisher | : Oldcastle Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004-01-03 |
Genre | : Card players |
ISBN | : 9781843440215 |
In 1930, Walter Irving Scott bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck. His skill was extraordinary and he was soon dubbed the Phantom of the Card Table. Sixty years later Gary Osborne, a magician from England, decided to track him down and, to his surprise, found him living in a retirement home in Rhode Island. The two became friends and Scott expressed an interest in publishing his closely kept secrets. This is the true story behind this elusive trickster.
Author | : Edward McGuire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Cardsharping |
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Author | : Edward McGuire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-11-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780974255170 |
Author | : Eddie McGuire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Cardsharping |
ISBN | : 9780911996128 |
Author | : David Britland |
Publisher | : Running Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 9781568582993 |
Walter Irving Scott may have been the greatest card shark ever. In 1930, Scott bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck, one of his many tricks. He liked to say that he "cheated the cheats." His skill with cards was extraordinary and he soon became known as "The Phantom of the Card Table." That's why Gazzo, a magician from England, decided to track Scott down some 60 years later. The two became friends and Scott openly discussed his work with a view to its finally being published. "I don't care what you say," said Scott, "as long as you tell the truth." This is the truth about Walter Irving Scott and other phantoms of the card table who spent years practicing a craft they rarely talk about — cheating at cards. A special chapter revealing master card tricks is also included.
Author | : Edward McGuire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Cardsharping |
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Author | : Ann Banfield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2007-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521034036 |
Virginia Woolf identified the influence on her work of 'the Cambridge Apostles', the philosophical society which counted G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and much of male Bloomsbury among its members, as one more 'capable of description' than 'the influence of my mother'. In this major study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time, Ann Banfield subjects that influence to a full treatment. The theory of knowledge Moore and Russell formulated, Banfield argues, profoundly affected Woolf's conception of reality, as it did Roger Fry's theory of Post-Impressionism, one source for Woolf's transformations of philosophical principles into aesthetic ones. The Phantom Table is a magisterial account of Woolf's engagement with this remarkable trinity of thinkers: Moore, Russell, Fry. It revises the epistemology of modernism, reconceiving the relation between realism and formalism to account for Woolf's dual reality of sense impressions and logical forms.
Author | : S. W. Erdnase |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0486156672 |
DIVThe one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery, from false shuffling and card palming to dealing from the bottom and three-card monte, plus 14 dazzling card tricks. /div
Author | : Karl Johnson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466833041 |
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly re-creates the sparkle of a vanished world. Here, set against the backdrop of America struggling through the Depression, is the world of magic, a realm of stars, sleight of hand, and sin where dreams could be realized - or stolen away. Following the Crash of '29, Dai Vernon, known by magicians as "the man who fooled Houdini," is tramping down Midwestern backroads, barely making ends meet. While swapping secrets with a Mexican gambler, he hears of a guy he doesn't quite believe is real - a legendary mystery man who deals perfectly from the center of the deck and who locals call the greatest cardsharp of all time. Determined to find the reclusive genius, Vernon sets out on a journey through America's shady, slick, and sinful side - from mob-run Kansas City through railroad towns that looked sleepy only in the daytime. Does he find the sharp? Well, Karl Johnson did - after years of research into Vernon's colorful quest, research that led him to places he never knew existed. Johnson takes us to the cardsharp's doorstep and shows us how he bestowed on Vernon the greatest secret in magic. The Magician and the Cardsharp is a unique and endlessly entertaining piece of history that reveals the artistry and obsession of a special breed of American showmen.
Author | : DANIEL MADISON |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0244704155 |