Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 1

Forte Years of Research

2020
Written by Steve Forte
Work of Steve Forte
503 pages (Hardcover), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
358 entries
Cover photograph
250 per page
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Steve Forte Dedication - Ray Goulet
Bill Malone Foreword
Steve Forte Preface
Steve Forte Acknowledgments
Steve Forte Chapter 1 - Gambling Sleight of Hand - The Hobby
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
 		1
Steve Forte Gambling Sleight of Hand as a Hobby
    • the moves
    • how gambling moves evolve
    • new gambling moves
    • the best gambling moves
    • story-moves
    • story-skill
    • legends
    • challenging moves
    • card-table protocol
  • Suckers
  • Gambling Devices
 		2
Steve Forte Studying Gambling Sleight of Hand
    • learning curve
    • doing moves versus studying moves
    • card players' standards
    • explanations of methods
    • execution versus application
  • Sources
    • books
    • video
    • personal instruction
    • card players
    • cheaters
    • mentors
 		11
Steve Forte Technical Considerations
  • the ultimate goal
  • detail
  • being natural
  • artificial moves
  • the simple things
  • the lessons (1 to 10)
  • the magic mindset
  • expert status
  • demonstrations
 		19
Steve Forte Cheaters and Magicians
  • sophisticated sleight of hand
  • no comparison
  • deceptive standards
  • differences
 		31
Steve Forte Practice
  • The Biggest Mistake You Can Make
  • Practice Basics
    • technical analysis
    • alternating true and false moves
    • speed and rhythm
    • mirrors
    • acting
    • video recording
    • objective criticism
    • conditions and consistency
    • seated position
    • table surface
    • angles
    • playing cards
    • challenging practice techniques
    • artificial practice techniques
    • practice lists
    • time management
    • hustlers and practice
    • visualization
 		36
Steve Forte Last Thoughts
  • how to read Gambling Sleight of Hand
  • researcher
  • author's perspective
  • credits
  • obvious solutions
  • secrets
  • opinions
  • mission statement
 		47
Steve Forte Summary summary of what the books are about
 		52
Steve Forte Chapter 2 - False Shuffles
  • Introduction
  • terminology
 		55
Steve Forte False Table Riffle Shuffles intro
 		57
Steve Forte Professional Table Riffle Shuffle
57
Steve Forte Carrying Top Slugs only straight riffles and no additional cuts
  • splitting and switching sides
  • riffling off the thumbs
  • split-cover
  • one-hand protected-position
  • overprotecting slugs
  • tap fake (Frank Thompson)
 		59
Steve Forte Carrying Bottom Slugs only straight riffles and no additional cuts
  • shadowing
  • splitting end to end versus corner to corner
  • lift or leave (see also p. 636)
  • don't ignore the top slug
  • splits
 		62
Steve Forte Carrying Big Slugs
  • building slugs
  • split, immediate riffle, and push - top slugs (SIRP)
  • split, immediate riffle, and push - bottom slugs
Related to 65
Steve Forte Legitimate Table Cuts and Strips different honest cuts, strip cuts, center strip, Scarne Cut
 		69
Steve Forte False Table Cuts and Strips intro
 		71
Steve Forte Scrape-cut tabled straight undercut
  • technical observations
    • clear the bottom half quickly
    • observer's perspective
    • tilt
    • lifting the bottom half
    • instantaneous action
Related to 71
Steve Forte Table-cut (poker) tabled straight forward cut
  • technical observations
    • hand cover
    • speed
    • lifting the initial half
    • cutting with one hand
    • carrying cut with one hand
    • squaring action
Related to 73
Steve Forte Table Double-Cuts second straight cut undoes first cut, two handlings, "don't-let-go" principle
  • center-center cut
Related to
  • "Double Cut" (Evans, How Gamblers Win, 1865)
Variations 		76
Steve Forte Gamblers' Cut triple undercut
  • technical observations
    • consistency
    • cutting direction
    • break size
    • grip
    • last cut
 		77
Steve Forte On Tabled Breaks on holding a thumb break with deck in riffle shuffle position
 		78
Steve Forte Up The Ladder
  • technical observations
    • starting grip
    • first undercut
    • eliminate the first stepped packet
    • cover
    • stripping direction and angle
    • only one stepped packet per strip
    • last stripped packet
    • number of strips
    • pace
  • automatic break (transition into riffle shuffle)
  • no stepped packets (Ed Marlo)
  • carrying half decks with UTL
 		80
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 83
Steve Forte Carrying Slugs with running/strip cuts, intro
 		86
Steve Forte Erdnase False Strips improvements for the Erdnase system and its set-up cut
  • top slug
  • bottom slug
Related to 86
Steve Forte delaying the strip top slug, riffle shuffle and cut combination, break held near bottom during shuffle
 		88
Steve Forte pick-up strip (top slug) single strip action, tabled lift shuffle
Related to 89
Steve Forte over-the-top (bottom slug) single strip action
 		89
Steve Forte Base-Strip running cut off the bottom
  • technical observations
    • instant start
    • clearing the bottom half
    • lifting the bottom half
    • exaggeration
    • tilting
 		90
Steve Forte Hidden Secrets - False Strip/Cut as used in television show "Hidden Secrets of Magic" (1996), "don't-let-go" principle
Inspired by 91
Steve Forte Boxing the Deck cutting a quarter to the top and then splitting in center for riffle shuffle
 		91
Steve Forte Positioning False Cuts and Strips intro, slug brought to center and marked off by break, jog, step
Related to 93
Steve Forte Double- and Triple-cuts (top or bottom slugs) strip cut, optionally followed by riffle shuffle
 		93
Steve Forte Three-part Positioning Strip (top slug) strip cut, optionally followed by riffle shuffle
 		94
Steve Forte Three-part Positioning Strip (bottom slug) strip cut, optionally followed by riffle shuffle
 		95
Steve Forte F-strip strip cut with laid jog, optionally followed by riffle shuffle
  • technical observations
    • first stripped packet
    • second stripped packet
    • remaining stripped packets
    • orientation of stripped packets
    • squaring options
    • tight stripping actions
    • split and riffle
    • stripping thin, splitting halves
    • carrying bottom slugs
    • automatic brief
    • f-strip with double cut
Related to 95
Steve Forte Automatic Brief automatic jog during running cut
 		98
Steve Forte Don't Let Go strip cut, followed by riffle shuffle, "don't-let-go" principle (typo in text, should be "bottom slug")
 		99
Steve Forte Poker Lecture Outline, c1982 two pages of Forte's first lecture notes
 		100
Steve Forte Riffling Down, Riffling Up top slug riffled down and brought back to top
 		102
Steve Forte Natural Break at slug when squaring up after riffle shuffle
 		102
Steve Forte I-strip (illogical) slug riffled down, followed by triple strip
Also published here 104
Steve Forte Riffling Down Twice
  • single-card brief
  • multiple-card bevel-brief ("don't-let-go" principle)
 		105
Ron Conley Conley Three-riffle Variation three consecutive riffles, always burying top slug, riffle shuffling with break
Related toVariations 107
Steve Forte Riffling Up
  • JN false cut
by gambler JN, bottom slug riffled into deck, followed by boxing cut
Variations 108
Steve Forte Spring Riffle-Off riffling off slug at once
 		108
Steve Forte Stevens Control discussion of its value (spoiler: none)
 		109
Steve Forte False Shuffling Procedures intro
 		112
Steve Forte Forte's Favorites - strip-dump (top slug) procedure combination
 		112
Steve Forte Forte's Favorites - bottom slug procedure combination
 		113
Steve Forte Carrying Half Decks intro comments
 		113
Steve Forte Double-slug Riffles carrying two quarter-deck slugs to effectively carry half the deck
  • double-slug - top/bottom
  • double-slug - top/top
  • double-slug - bottom/bottom
 		113
Steve Forte Summary on slug controls and false cut
 		116
Steve Forte The Push-Through introduction and details of basic handling
  • technical observations
    • position of hands
    • pre-riffle split
    • riffle
    • riffle-separation
    • pushing action
    • square-up before the square-up
    • pushing through
    • squaring action/moment
    • brief size
    • SCS (split, cut, or strip)
    • hand cover
    • rhythm
 		117
Steve Forte Speed-through
127
Steve Forte Protected Push-through more cover
 		128
Steve Forte Fake Square-up - One Hand right hand moves towards left
 		129
Steve Forte Fake Square-up - Two Hands X configuration
 		130
Steve Forte Rough Hustlers' Push-through X configuration
Related to 131
MD's Push-through bumped through
 		132
Steve Forte Half-deck Push-through push-through action used to retain half the deck
 		134
Steve Forte Variants brief outlines of further variations
  • the conductor
  • single push
  • back push-through (Richard Turner)
  • tapper
  • twisting split (dovetail shuffle on the table)
  • pointed riffle
  • mirror strips (push-through with break)
  • riffling interlaced cards
  • two-step push-throughs (honest cut before strip-out)
  • one riffle push-through/pull-out
  • the mysterious kid (handling for two-step push-through, alternative by Steve Forte)
 		134
Steve Forte Dead-cuts strip-out used as cutting to an Ace
 		139
Steve Forte Easy Block-transfer discussing lack of use in cheating
  • killing x-cards
  • adding x-cards
  • carrying full decks
 		140
Steve Forte Summary
143
Steve Forte The Pull-Out Shuffle
  • technical observations
    • simplicity of method
    • angling
    • finger stops
    • square-up (technical)
    • square-up (visual)
 		145
Steve Forte Back-stop left thumb as stop
Related to 146
Rod the Hop Rod-the-Hop's Pull-out (front-stop) strip-out during running strip cut
 		147
Steve Forte Fake Square-ups
  • long-push
  • three-push
 		149
Steve Forte Magicians' Pull-outs
  • fine squeeze and square-up
  • two-hand square-up (related to "Rough Hustlers' Push-through")
  • one-card 'block' transfer (Triumph Shuffle, with further applications by Forte)
Related to 151
Steve Forte Sliding Slug Pull-outs sliding slugs sell the square-up
  • top-slug slide-over
  • bottom-slug slide-over
 		154
Steve Forte Off-the-table Pull-Out for large slugs, up to thirty cards
 		157
Steve Forte Sliding Off-the-table Pull-out
158
Edward Marlo Marlo's Off-the-table Pull-out previously unpublished
 		159
Steve Forte Other Variants short comment
 		160
Steve Forte Summary
161
Steve Forte The Zarrow Shuffle
  • classification
    • Card Cover
    • Hand Cover
    • No Cover
    • Off-the-table Variants
  • technical observations
    • independent card movement
    • movement of halves
    • lift
    • gaps
    • tilt
    • top-card pop
    • matching up
    • practice
    • repeatability
    • angles
    • riffle-shuffle tells
    • experimentation
    • setup cuts/strips
    • context
 		162
Steve Forte Setup cuts/Strips three cutting sequences to set up for the Zarrow
 		167
Three-push Zarrow by hustler VO
 		169
Steve Forte No-cover Zarrows Oeink
 		169
Steve Forte Bookmaker's Zarrow cards shuffled by the short ends
 		170
Steve Forte Circle-Zarrow
Variations 171
Steve Forte Tap-Zarrow ledge as halves are tapped against each other before riffling
 		172
Steve Forte No-interlace Zarrows no interlacing during riffle itself
 		173
Steve Forte Reverse-Zarrow top half slightly twisted backwards
 		174
Steve Forte Lift-Zarrow whole deck slightly lifted from table and dropped during square-up
Related to 175
Steve Forte Back-Load Zarrow square-up as deck is moved back
 		176
Steve Forte Variants brief outlines of further variations
  • cover-Zarrow (Gary Plants)
  • deep riffle
  • long push
  • snap-bevel
  • pinned corner
  • dribble-Zarrow
  • dead-hand Zarrow
  • short square-up
  • top-card cover (double cover)
  • off-the-table Zarrow (deck on its side on table)
Related to 177
Steve Forte, Bob White partial Zarrow only top or bottom half of riffle unwoven, details for top slug
 		180
Steve Forte spacer Zarrow riffle stacking application, the very top of the shuffle can be legitimately spaced out
 		181
Steve Forte Other Zarrows brief outlines of even further variations
  • saw-Zarrow
  • spring-Zarrow
  • other bevel-based Zarrows
  • bent top card
  • sliding bottom slug
 		181
Steve Forte Summary
183
Steve Forte False Overhand Shuffles
185
Steve Forte Methods intro
 		187
Steve Forte In-jogs
  • technical observations
    • single in-jogged card
    • breaks (break-drag to cut at break in overhand shuffle position)
    • sequence spacing (shuffling a second time while retaining jog)
 		187
Steve Forte Out-jogs
  • top slugs
  • bottom slugs
 		189
Steve Forte Side-jogs
191
Steve Forte Place-break no jog
 		192
Steve Forte Pick-up Shuffle lift
 		192
Steve Forte Thumb-stop left thumb stays on top slug
 		193
Steve Forte Thumb-grab bottom slug, packets exchanged after first throw
 		193
Steve Forte Bevel block slip shuffle
 		194
Steve Forte Twist block slip shuffle
 		195
Steve Forte Hold-back side-jog & block slip shuffle combo, top or bottom slug, using flat-break
 		195
Steve Forte Flat-Break retaining contact to side-jogged card during overhand shuffle
 		195
Steve Forte Chop front-and-back throws, top or bottom slug, or entire deck with optical throws
 		196
Steve Forte Carrying Half Decks and Full Decks intro and double base-throw as full deck false shuffle
 		197
Steve Forte Matching Runs Hunter type, also as one-shuffle with packet exchange
 		197
Steve Forte Overhand Butt/Lace Shuffle
198
Steve Forte Summary
199
Steve Forte Off-the-Table False Riffles, Strips, and Cuts intro
 		200
Steve Forte False Off-the-table Riffles (slugs) protected positions and protection grip for in-the-hands shuffles
  • top slugs
  • bottom slugs
 		201
Steve Forte Building Bottom Slugs adding cards to bottom slug via riffle-squeeze, for poker scam "Countdown" or "Laying Sets"
Related to 205
Steve Forte Cover-cards for bottom slug
  • single cover-card (in-the-hands riffle followed by cut)
  • double cover-cards
 		206
Steve Forte Off-the-table Shuffle-over "shuffle-over" = unweave and one half slides on top of the other
 		207
Steve Forte Table Shuffle-over with OTT Square-up square-up on end
 		208
Steve Forte F-shuffle-over left thumb between shuffled halves
 		210
Steve Forte F-ledge-shuffle block false shuffle
 		211
Steve Forte Poker Shuffle-over no-cover circle-Zarrow
Inspired by 212
Steve Forte Noise Maker one half riffled against top card of other half which bounces around
 		212
Steve Forte Faking the Cascade credit information, tabled real cascade
 		213
Steve Forte f-cascade with fake cascade, displacing one card
 		214
Steve Forte Off-the-table False Cuts and Strips differences between tabled and in-the-hands cuts
 		215
Steve Forte center-strip bottom slug, in-the-hands
 		215
Steve Forte top slugs in-the-hands running cut combinations
 		216
Steve Forte bottom slugs in-the-hands running cut
 		217
Steve Forte Riffle-splits positioning cuts and strips done in the hands, splitting at a break for in-the-hands riffle
Related to 217
Steve Forte Off-the-table Full-deck False Cuts
  • slap cut
  • from hands to table
  • off-the-table scrape-cut
 		218
Steve Forte Over Variants
221
Steve Forte Off-the-table Slip-cuts
  • heel-peek slip-cut
  • bottom slip-cut
 		221
Steve Forte Wash/Scramble
  • Wash/Scramble (top slug)
  • Weeding (top slug)
 		223
Steve Forte Summary
226
Steve Forte Chapter 3 - Stacking and Culling
  • Introduction
 		229
Steve Forte Haymow general milk build discussion
 		230
Steve Forte Segmented Haymow breaking up the run of singles
Related to 232
Steve Forte Milks-stack consecutive milks, Klondike shuffle
 		233
Steve Forte No-Haymow Haymow drawing from the bottom without top card cover
Inspired by 234
Jack Carpenter The Money Stack includes pulling off two (or more) cards at a time
 		236
Steve Forte Tools for Overhand-Shuffle Stacking
  • overhand-shuffle transfer (double-cut in overhand shuffle position)
  • center-pickup (exchanging right-hand packet with a part of left-hand packet)
 		237
Steve Forte Reverse-position Stack positioning certain cards from the bottom, "countdown" scam
Related to 239
Steve Forte After the Stack by run-up hustler DH, stack with slug of x-cards on top which can be legitimately overhand shuffled
 		240
Steve Forte Summary
241
Steve Forte Riffle Stacking introduction, general information, myth-busting, run-up hustler PS
  • Riffle-stacking Truths
    • difficulty
    • the big secret
    • stacking and culling
    • culling logic
    • cardmen
    • card-table protocol
    • perception
  • technical observations
    • riffle off the thumbs
    • speed
    • playing cards
    • the eyes
    • splits
    • beveling the halves
    • position of the thumbs
    • open riffle
    • hold-backs
    • one-handed protected-position
    • under-slug
    • practice
 		242
Steve Forte Spacer-stack top few cards actually interlaced
 		250
Steve Forte After-the-riffle stack card slid to top after end of shuffle
 		251
Steve Forte Transfers and Riffle Stacking using transfers to complement riffle stacking, see following two items
 		251
Steve Forte bottom-to-top stack (f-transfer) without requiring double hold backs on both sides
Related to 251
Steve Forte f-transfer right third finger angles bottom card
Related to 251
Steve Forte top-to-bottom reverse stack
253
Steve Forte Peek Stack another player is allowed to peek during riffle shuffle
 		253
Steve Forte Other Variants
  • slip-cut stack (avoiding double hold-backs)
  • strip-stack
  • best riffle stack (combining f-transfer and spacer-stacking)
 		254
Steve Forte Summary
255
Steve Forte Faro Stacking introduction
 		256
Steve Forte Classification
  • off-the-table
  • top to bottom
  • bottom to top
  • riffle faro
 		257
Steve Forte The Faro Process general comments and rules regarding faro stacking
 		258
Steve Forte Off-the-table Faro Stack slough-off, hustler MG
 		260
Steve Forte Bottom-to-top Stack tabled
 		261
Steve Forte Basic Faro Stack partial faro into deck, extra cards removed afterwards
 		262
The Faro System by hustler PMH, using "faro twist"
 		263
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
 		264
Steve Forte Skip-Stack faro stacking for odd number of players
 		267
Steve Forte Single Hole-card Hold' em Stack faro stacking for odd number of players, three-of-a-kind
 		267
Steve Forte Riffle Faro only bottom half faroed, also while holding break
 		268
Steve Forte Faro Review how to work out faro stacks and pre-faro stacks
 		270
Steve Forte Faros and the Second Deal
271
Steve Forte One-card-removal Cut getting rid of extra card between two target cards via slip cut sequence
 		271
Steve Forte Culling general comments about culling in gaming context
 		272
Steve Forte Stevens' Riffle Cull myth-busting commentary and reality check
 		272
Steve Forte Summary
276
Steve Forte Chapter 4 - Beating the Cut
  • Introduction
 		279
Steve Forte Shifts the shift in gambling
 		280
Steve Forte Classic Shift "a few, short, general observations"
 		280
Steve Forte Variants
282
Steve Forte one-handed get-ready left fingers lever top half up as soon as hands meet
 		282
Steve Forte palm-hinge shift kind of side-steal shift
 		282
Steve Forte fast Herrmann
283
Steve Forte fast Charlier using both hands
 		284
Steve Forte fast S. W. E.
Inspired by 285
Steve Forte On Immediacy when executing a Shift
286
Steve Forte palm-shift top half palmed and slid underneath
 		286
toss-shift by hustler BH
 		286
Steve Forte Side-to-side Shift side-steal type, with covers and variants
  • throw side-to-side shift
  • squared side-to-side shift
Variations 287
Steve Forte Longways Shift forward movement in one plane
Inspired by 290
Steve Forte Back-shift top half moved backwards and under bottom half
 		292
Steve Forte Spin-Shift credit information
Related toVariations 293
Steve Forte spin-shift variant as deck is picked up
 		294
Steve Forte no-step fingertip spinner in-the-hands version, two variations
Inspired byVariations 295
Steve Forte One-handed Finisher
297
Steve Forte In-the-air Shift deck turned sideways and tapped on table
 		298
Steve Forte Belly-shift using body
 		299
Steve Forte One-handed Shifts comments on using one-handed shifts for gambling
 		300
Steve Forte Bottom-slug Shift bringing only bottom slug back to bottom
 		300
Steve Forte Mexican Joe bringing only bottom slug back to bottom, with spin-shift dynamics
Inspired by 301
Steve Forte Casino Burn-card Shift bottom cover pass
 		303
Steve Forte cut-card shifts as cut card is inserted, several solutions
 		303
Steve Forte Incomplete Shifts freezing before complete square-up
 		305
Steve Forte Open Shifts speed-shifts
 		305
Steve Forte Standard Hop draw shift
  • short sweep
  • flat-to-flat
  • forward tap
  • left-hand cover
  • delaying the hop
 		306
Steve Forte Riffle Shuffle Position Hop
308
Steve Forte Back-side Hop
309
Steve Forte Standard "Elevator" Hop right-hand end grip
  • long sweep
  • short sweep
  • table slide-off
  • variants
 		310
Steve Forte Slide-Unders bottom half is secretly slid under tabled top half instead of placing it on top
  • natural slide-under
  • touch slide-under
  • off-the-table slide-unders
 		312
Steve Forte Bottom-Slug Hops bottom slug secretly slid back to bottom as bottom half is placed on top half
  • bottom-slug hop, one card
  • bottom-slug hop, multiple cards
Related to 315
Steve Forte Tappers ending with tapping action on table
 		316
Steve Forte ping-pong hop tapping-on-table cover
 		317
Steve Forte spin-pong hop tapping-on-table cover
Inspired by 317
Steve Forte spin tapper tapping-on-table cover
 		318
Steve Forte back-of-the-hand tapper tapping-on-table cover
Inspired by 318
check tapper by hustler FF, tapping-on-table cover, involving bumping a check into pot
 		319
Steve Forte Drops as cut is assembled a section is accidentally dropped and the shift made
  • Standard Drops
    • gin-spread drop
    • half-deck drop (BH)
 		320
Steve Forte False Cuts for Cutters about cuts that the cutting player can use after the shuffle, intro
 		323
Steve Forte Slip-cuts objectives:
  • simulate a true cut (mechanic)
  • simulate a true cut (cutter)
  • killing a single card
variants:
  • back-to-the-dealer slip-cut
  • bevel slip-cut
  • slip-strip (substitutes for slip cut)
 		323
Steve Forte Moving Cut opposite of scrape-cut
Related to 326
Steve Forte Casino Pop-cut one-handed straight false cut onto table
 		327
Steve Forte Other Variants
327
Steve Forte Summary
328
Steve Forte Briefs definition, comments and basic ideas
 		329
Steve Forte Briefs for Cutters - slide-brief setting jog during cutting sequence, "don't-let-go" principle
 		331
Steve Forte squeeze-square brief setting tiny jog during square-up movement, from break
 		333
Steve Forte overhand shuffle briefs with story about hustler KP
 		334
Steve Forte reset-brief from f-strip, angle jog converted back
Related to 336
Steve Forte riffle-brief jog held during riffle shuffle
Related to 337
Steve Forte Briefs For Squares intro
 		338
Steve Forte overhand-shuffle bridge
338
Steve Forte off-the-table strip-brief in-the-hands
 		339
Steve Forte full-deck crimp
340
Steve Forte Other Variants
  • open square-up bevel-brief
  • one-handed square-up brief
  • pinky bevel-brief
  • bounce-brief
  • up-the-ladder
  • Rod the Hop brief
  • corner crimp
  • double-strip
  • casino riffle-brief
  • cut-card briefs
  • cascade-brief
  • Ron Conley - moving brief
  • natural riffle-brief
 		341
Rod the Hop Rod the Hop brief during undercut
 		342
Ron Conley moving brief from in-jog to angle-jog
 		345
Steve Forte Lugs rubber piece in deck
 		346
Gaffed Cards hustler PMH, single in-stripper card
 		346
Steve Forte New-Theory Brief fine incomplete faro
 		346
Steve Forte Fake Briefs having a second obvious brief as misdirection
 		347
Steve Forte False Shuffles and Brief setting brief with Zarrow or shuffle-over
 		348
Steve Forte Summary on briefs
 		349
Steve Forte Chapter 5 - False Deals
  • Introduction
 		351
Steve Forte Strike Seconds intro
 		352
Steve Forte Demonstration Strike Seconds comments about exhibition deals, brief size, apparently immovable top cards
 		353
Steve Forte Marlo's No-Touch Second comments on the deal
Related to 355
Steve Forte Walter Scott's Second Deal comments on the deal
Related to 356
Steve Forte Standard Strike Second
  • technical observations
    • terminology
    • conditions
    • playing cards
    • bevel
    • framing the deck (grip)
    • mechanic's grip (aka natural grip)
    • dealing thumb
    • dead thumb
    • briefs
    • right thumb
    • right thumb lift
    • retraction
    • dealing-thumb lift
    • dealing-thumb ending position
    • the take
    • deck-hand movement
    • dealing down
    • dealing direction
    • pitching
    • little-or-no-spin pitching
    • early pitching
    • stud deals
    • "necktie the deck"
    • noise
    • speed
    • rhythm
    • dealing tops
    • viewing angle
    • the body
    • dealing skill
 		359
Steve Forte Questionable Information strike second myths
  • delaying the left-thumb pushing action
  • elliptical path
  • emerging angles
  • melting action
  • difficulty factor
Related to 372
Deal-down Strikes by hustler VO, top card starts pushed forward so second card is initially not exposed
 		375
Steve Forte Casino Pitch Strikes
377
Steve Forte Top-side Brief top card pushed to the left
 		379
Steve Forte Middle-side Brief straddle grip, top card pushed to left
 		380
250 per page
Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2020.