Miller, Hugh: The Secrets of Gambling ©1970 Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio, London Hardcover, w/dj, 128 pages ©1980 Supreme Magic Co., U.K

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Contents:

7 Introduction
3 Cheating at cards
3 Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33 Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36 Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40 Holdouts: Kepplinger type, bug, card index, magnetic cards, ring holdouts
48 Shiners
51 Confederates: signals, hand signals, other body signals, electronic communication
61 Card Handling
61 Palming: 3 top palms, gamblers flat palm, 3 bottom palms
66 False Shuffling: strip-out riffle shuffle, gamblers false shuffle, to retain a top stock, faro
73 False Cutting: a false cut, slip cut, Vernons "The Cold Deck Cut"
76 Crooked Dealing: seconds, bottoms
79 Miscellaneous Swindles: double lift peek, restoring a cut, top change, locaters, confederates
85 The Greatest Swindles
87 Dice: loads, caps, shaved dice, beveled dice, mis-spotted dice, magnets
92 Detecting Fake Dice
95 Crooked Dice Handling: 3 controls, blanket roll, switching
98 Find the Lady (three card Monte)
102 The Three Shell game
104 The Endless Belt (this is the chain loop swindle)
105 Elusive Aces: a brief discussion of mis-indexed gaff cards, for use in the three card Monte or other card-based scams
108 Roulette
113 Safe Bets: several mathematical and proposition type wagers
123 The Odds
125 Dice (odds)
127 Bingo (odds)
127 Blackjack (odds)
128 Poker (odds)
128 Postscript