Author : John Scarne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 1994-04-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0062731556
A classic in its field, this is the essential, all-inclusive guide to today's card games, including poker, bridge, baccarat, solitaire, and dozens of others, as well as histories and variations in the games, odds, and tips on how to detect cheating.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
Covers card games, tile games, dice games, chess, checkers, lottery games, board games, social games, and parlor games.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486317153
Marvelous treasury of card magic presents exact details of 155 professional card tricks that anyone can learn. Card wizard John Scarne reworked these tricks to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand. Simple instructions and clear diagrams illustrate Houdini's "Card on the Ceiling," Blackstone's "Card Trick Without Cards," Milton Berle's "Quickie Card Deal," more.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781616464011
During WW2, soldiers and sailors enjoyed playing dice, but were often fleeced by con men and cheaters. Magician John Scarne came to their rescue, offering advice for playing as well as for spotting tricks and cheats in his columns in Yank Magazine. This book was first published in 1945. See CoachwhipBooks.com for guides: dominoes, backgammon, more.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher :
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
Contains rules, procedures, and strategies for games of many types: card games, board games, guessing games, parlor games, and games requiring special equipment.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9784871871235
If he's had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of ail time. Instead the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling "the devils tool" put his extraordinary gifts to far different purposes. He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers (as a magician he vied with Houdini) his brilliant mathematical mind, and his fascination with carnival and gambling life, to become America's number one authority on gambling and odds. He is the greatest living practitioner and analyst of card and slight of hand ( his artistry impressed FDR as well as underworld overlords). He has been consultant to the top casinos in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Las Vegas. He was chosen by the US Army in World War II to show GI's how not to be fleeced in crooked games. He was a front page witness in 1961 before the Senate's investigation of gambling and crime. There is nothing about the international gambling world - its personalities, stories, methods - that he doesn't know. And his own colorful and knowing personality makes his autobiography one of the most fascinating documents of our day. " Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, 537 pages.
Author : Walter B. Gibson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0307486095
From All Fours to Zebra Poker, this is the definitive, A-to-Z guide to contemporary card games. Shuffle your deck and get ready to discover your new favorite card game! Hoyle’s Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games explains the rules of all the most popular and timeless card games clearly and simply, using special symbols, charts, and drawings alongside written instructions. This accessible guide lists games alphabetically and includes extensive cross-referencing for all game variations. Plus, the unique glossary-index features definitions of terms and games’ alternative names. Whether playing solitaire or hosting a rowdy game night, Hoyle’s Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games is the ultimate card game resource.
Author : John Scarne
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Gambling
ISBN : 9780671630638
The author presents the stories of lesser known inventors without whom such men as Fulton might not have become famous.
Author : Brent Hershey
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1637270577
For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.
Author : Karl Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466833041
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly re-creates the sparkle of a vanished world. Here, set against the backdrop of America struggling through the Depression, is the world of magic, a realm of stars, sleight of hand, and sin where dreams could be realized - or stolen away. Following the Crash of '29, Dai Vernon, known by magicians as "the man who fooled Houdini," is tramping down Midwestern backroads, barely making ends meet. While swapping secrets with a Mexican gambler, he hears of a guy he doesn't quite believe is real - a legendary mystery man who deals perfectly from the center of the deck and who locals call the greatest cardsharp of all time. Determined to find the reclusive genius, Vernon sets out on a journey through America's shady, slick, and sinful side - from mob-run Kansas City through railroad towns that looked sleepy only in the daytime. Does he find the sharp? Well, Karl Johnson did - after years of research into Vernon's colorful quest, research that led him to places he never knew existed. Johnson takes us to the cardsharp's doorstep and shows us how he bestowed on Vernon the greatest secret in magic. The Magician and the Cardsharp is a unique and endlessly entertaining piece of history that reveals the artistry and obsession of a special breed of American showmen.
