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====== Faro Shuffle ====== | ====== Faro Shuffle ====== | ||
- | This shuffle seems first to have appeared in the anonymous gambling text, //A Grand Exposé of the Science of Gambling//, 1860, p. 4 of the 2010 edition. The author describes the shuffle in conjunction with a sanding technique to facilitate a perfect weave. This was essential because the trimming of mid-nineteenth-century cards left rough edges that worked against perfect interlaces. This sanding approach was described in newspaper | + | This shuffle seems first to have appeared in the anonymous gambling text, //A Grand Exposé of the Science of Gambling//, 1860, p. 4 of the 2010 edition. The author describes the shuffle in conjunction with a sanding technique to facilitate a perfect weave. This was essential because the trimming of mid-nineteenth-century cards left rough edges that worked against perfect interlaces. This sanding approach was described in newspapers |
Two early contemporaneous works on crooked gambling that described the faro shuffle (without sanding work) were Joseph Koschitz’s // | Two early contemporaneous works on crooked gambling that described the faro shuffle (without sanding work) were Joseph Koschitz’s // | ||
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Persi Diaconis notes that S. Victor Innis was the first to publish the fact that eight out-shuffles bring a fifty-two-card pack back to its original order. See his //Inner Secrets of Crooked Card Players//, 1915, p. 13. | Persi Diaconis notes that S. Victor Innis was the first to publish the fact that eight out-shuffles bring a fifty-two-card pack back to its original order. See his //Inner Secrets of Crooked Card Players//, 1915, p. 13. | ||
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+ | The use of a perfect (faro-like) shuffle to gather four Aces distributed in a sixteen-card packet was noted by " | ||
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