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Min Frank New user 50 Posts 
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I heard that if I see the video of steve forte introduced his personal museum about gambling, I can find some hint for faro stacking method. So I saw his video again and I found that he spoke about his favorite book but I don't get it correctly.. it's around 17mins and 30seconds and I'm talking about the green one.
what is the name of it and where can i find it..? Ebay? Also does anyone know smth about perfect riffle shuffle? I saw a Russian called nikita(not sure of his name) so I'm trying to mimick but what I can do is do a table faro and show like I did a riffle... I want to know the way to do genuine perfect riffle shuffle.. any hint on this plz? |
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Kimura Special user 519 Posts
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Hi Min,
The book is "Wanderings of a Vagabond" by John Morris. I don't know how much it goes for on ebay, but if you only care about the contents, it is now in public domain and therefore freely available in places such as this: https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofvaga00oconiala It's a really enjoyable, beautifully written book and you can see why it's a favourite. The perfect riffle shuffle is another story altogether, the best most people are going to get is the table faro with some riffle action. |
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Min Frank New user 50 Posts
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Thank you Kimura!
I just read it briefly and it doesn't look like gambling related book... and then that one was not what I was finding sad;y.. but still thank you so so much!! yeah you are completely right on the perfect table riffle but still there are few people who can genuinely riffle the cards perfectly and one of them said it is not a completely practice and hard work so I'm finding a method to do how |
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Kimura Special user 519 Posts
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It's very much a gambling book, you can see this in the table of contents alone...
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TH10111 Regular user 160 Posts
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I agree with Kimura.
In my opinion, Wanderings of a Vagabond is one the most entertaining gambling biographies available. Though I never really understood the title; I thought Morris presented himself as honest and fair, rather than what I would describe as a vagabond. It's also interesting to note that both Morris and Devol were from Marietta, Ohio, both made their living from gambling, and both wrote biographies about their lives, which were published only 14 years apart... |
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iamslow Inner circle Proffessional Slacker 2002 Posts
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I know ill probably get heat for this one, but I believe Brian Tudor teaches a perfect riffle shuffle in one of his flourish dvds as a part of a flourish routine...
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Min Frank New user 50 Posts
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Oops sorry I will go and read it again for real
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Min Frank New user 50 Posts
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And thank iamslow!
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Steven Conner Inner circle 2756 Posts
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On Aug 2, 2021, Min Frank wrote: I believe Martin Nash teaches the Tabled Faro. Best Steve
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Min Frank New user 50 Posts
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Sadly Steven,
in my opinion tabled faro and perfect riffle is kinda different. Tabled faro is mimicking a perfect riffle shuffle so it is kinda different by its look and method |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 15717 Posts
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It seems to me, that the Faro croupiers shuffle was an open weave shuffle from top to bottom: a pretty little shuffle taught in Jean Hugard’s Card Manipulation series of books and simply called Weaving the Cards. What we now call a Faro shuffle is a bottom to top riffle like shuffle, which is well taught by Ed Marlo.
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JasonEngland V.I.P. Las Vegas, NV 1736 Posts
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On Aug 2, 2021, TH10111 wrote: Morris's real name was John O'Connor. He was (apparently) a novelist by trade. The quality of his writing certainly seems to back that up. It's so good in fact, it makes me question how much of a gambler he really was. Jason
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Min Frank New user 50 Posts
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Thanks for answer! so that's where I can real thing lol
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TH10111 Regular user 160 Posts
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On Aug 6, 2021, JasonEngland wrote: That's interesting; his writing certainly is good. I can't say I noticed anything in the text that would suggest the author wasn't as familiar with gambling as he claimed - but that might just be the sign of a good writer! |
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