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Overhand False Shuffle
When you have a number of cards,
up to say ten or twelve, on the top
of the pack and it is necessary to
keep them intact in that position
and yet simulate a genuine shuffle,
the following is the best method yet
devised for an overhand
shuffle.
 Hold
the pack in the left hand in the
usual position for an overhand
shuffle. With the right second
finger and thumb lift
up the lower two-thirds of the
pack, call this packet B, leaving
the other third intact in the left
hand, call this packet A.
Bring B down on A and release a
small packet C from the top, at the
same moment gripping A between the
tip of the right third finger at the
outer end and the right thumb at the
inner end. Lift A together with the
remaining cards of B, holding a
break between the two packets. Fig.
1.
Shuffle off the remaining cards of B
in the usual way and, when the break
is reached simply throw A on top.
The action is very easy and,
smoothly done, it is impossible for
the onlooker to detect the least
departure from a genuine shuffle.
I am indebted to Jules the Magician,
of Hotel New Yorker fame, for this
invaluable sleight. If the reader
gets nothing else from these pages
he will be well repaid for his
outlay.
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