The other day I was working in a "friendly" soft game. However they used a cut card to my demise. Luckily for me, I was working with a partner so he would cut at my small jog protruding out the back. My questions is,( and I am asking this here because I do not own a cut card to practice with yet) is it possible to execute a classic pass, riffle pass while avoiding disrupting the cut card from the bottom. I have tried by turning a normal playing card faced up on the bottom of a deck and yes I was able to separate the face up card in the squaring action with the meat of the base of my thumb then hit a successful pass. But from my understanding the cut card is more dense and thicker. Besides creating a bridge or a crimp and forcing a cut, is there anyway around the cut card that involves a pass, hop or whatever we call it nowadays. Thanks!!

Short answer is yes. The long answer involves a lot of arguing and a shot or two of Jack.

Ever consider buying a cut card and toying around with it? Should be obvious, and it's cheap.

I suggest you ask the member Ben Train what he thinks about using a riffle pass at the card table. If I remember correctly there was a story with a pool involved...

If your working a soft game, just use marked cards and be done with it.

Blockout work with a sharpie should fly. Big fat dots.

If that is what you use....can I take out life insurance in your name and be the beneficiary

I created a shift to beat the cut card. Its written up in Modus Operandi the Card Magic of Jack Carpenter.

Steve Ehlers

There's something I called "top slug bypass" here too:

http://www.arnoldmcdonald.org/en/code/index.php?p=6210000

And you have to buy nothing to watch it!

Amen to that.

Interesting comments. And I never use any marked cards. I just use my two hands...and good looks

Well, I was being sarcastic, but it is true that some paper would reduce your workload with no added risk.

Some would argue, yadda yadda yadda.



See to me, a "friendly" soft game doesn't have a cut card. Or a cut after the shuffle procedure. But us Brits are far too trusting.

No cut! I need to relocate!