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When you finish reading the next nine chapters, you will have a complete working knowledge of not only Neocheating but of every other important technique used by professional and amateur cheaters. And more importantly, after a few hours of practice, you will be executing undetectable Neocheating . . . you will be controlling the cards in ways that would confound and beat your opponents -- even if they are experienced and alert cardplayers. And most importantly, you will have the knowledge needed to identify and protect yourself from all cheating, including Neocheating.
If your fingers possess ordinary dexterity -- that is if you can shuffle cards without dropping them all over the table or without brutally bending them out of shape -- then by the time you finish reading this chapter, you will be able to--
a) pick up any deck of cards, shuffle it thoroughly,
b) cut the deck, place it on the table, and then
c) cut an ace for high card -- even after another person cuts first.
By the end of the fourth chapter, you will be able to thoroughly shuffle any deck of cards, place them on a table, turn your head away, shut your eyes, and flawlessly read the cards by "feeling their backs" with your fingertips.
Impossible? Before you finish the next chapter, you will be able to stack four of a kind or a straight flush for yourself in a six-handed poker game -- taking fifteen seconds or less. . . . Almost nothing is impossible with Neocheating as you will soon discover.
Now, a popular maxim states: "You can't cheat an honest man." But this book demonstrates how false that maxim is. Actually, that maxim serves as a convenient cover for cheaters who constantly fleece unsuspecting, honest men. And with this book --with Neocheating -- a person not only can cheat honest men, but can fleece them so smoothly and thoroughly that they will leave the card table broke and in a daze . . . and not the slightest bit wiser.
Why are most honest players so vulnerable? They are vulnerable because they are honest -- they are not cheaters and do not know what is really involved in cheating. In fact, many believe they can spot cheaters. And most believe it takes years of intensive practice to become an effective, professional card cheater. But today, with Neocheating, both of those beliefs have become flatly untrue. In fact, modern, professional cheaters neither possess nor need much skill or dexterity.[ 5 ] Today, the most effective professional cheaters operate on a basis of minimum skill but maximum knowledge (presented in this book); they operate on a system of Neocheating. ... And when considering professional expertise, think of the following irony:
You can go to college for four years, spend thousands of hours in intensive study, and invest thousands of dollars to get a degree. Yet even that is no guarantee of profit and hardly makes you an expert or a professional in your chosen field. But ironically, with this book, you can become a professional Neocheater in less than fifty hours while spending no more than a few dollars for fresh decks of cards.
You can, in fact, gain enough knowledge and skill by studying this book a day or two to pass for a professional cardsharp among your peers. After a few hours, you will be effortlessly cutting aces and stacking four of a kind. And after a dozen hours with this book, the only thing that will separate you from a professional cardsharp is that he makes his living by cheating whereas you could make a living by cheating.
Throughout history, cheaters have made fortunes by fleecing honest men. Honesty does not imply knowledge. Indeed, this book provides the knowledge that can quickly convert any ordinary cardplayer into an effective, professional Neocheater. But more importantly, this book will provide the knowledge to protect you from cheaters. When you know how modern professional cheating (Neocheating) is done, when you understand its seeming mysteries, you can then approach the subject of cheating with knowledge and confidence instead of gullibility and awe. What may have seemed fantastically impressive and skillful before you picked up this book will become routine and easy if you simply follow the text and illustrations.
Now you are ready to learn Neocheating in the comfort of your own home and without anyone's knowledge. The Neocheating method of cutting aces is easy and far less complicated than its detailed description. See for yourself how quickly and easily you can learn Neocheating. And experience both the fun and the power of Neocheating. After all, how many people can cut aces at will or invisibly stack four of a kind in seconds?
But first you must know four important terms that are used throughout the book:
Proceeding now to the first Neocheating technique -- cutting aces: this chapter shows how to cut aces (or any desired card) at will. That knowledge will be the building block for the devastating cheating techniques described in later chapters.
With a deck of cards, sit at a table with a cleared surface. Cardboard cards are preferred when learning the Neocheating techniques. If you use a brand-new cardboard deck, the cards may be too slippery to manipulate properly; so shuffle them several times to reduce the slickness. Plastic-coated cards are more durable, but do not respond to manipulation as well once they begin to wear. And plastic (not plastic-coated) cards are extremely resilient and durable, but require much more pressure to crimp. (Crimping will be explained shortly.) Actually any deck will do, provided it is not heavily worn.
Your hands are your tools. If they are too dry, rub some hand lotion into your palms and fingers to sensitize your touch. If your hands feel too moist (which is preferable to dryness), use a little talcum powder. Incidentally, if you smell hand lotion during a high-stake card game -- beware.
Now pick up the deck of cards and give it an ordinary riffle shuffle. The difference between a riffle shuffle and an overhand shuffle is described below:
To overhand shuffle, hold the deck in the left hand, thumb on top, fingers underneath, hand tilted slightly. (If you are lefthanded, follow the same instructions throughout the book, but use the opposite hand.) With your right hand, remove the lower half of the deck. Then raise your left thumb and toss the cards, a few at a time, from your right hand onto those in your left hand.
To riffle shuffle, hold the deck in the right hand while at the same time resting the deck on your left hand. Now riffle the cards with your right thumb, but stop about halfway and part the deck as shown in Figure 1A. Pass the lower portion of the deck to your left hand, which then grips that lower portion between the thumb and fingers at opposite ends. Knuckle the forefingers down on the tops of the separated deck halves to hold them firmly in place. Next, using both thumbs, interlace the cards with a riffling action as shown in Figure 2A. Then push the cards together and square them into a full deck.
Riffles and shuffles are simple. Yet they are key maneuvers for the Neocheater. He uses those two elementary maneuvers to accomplish most of his "miracles".
The riffle, for example, is used to locate and control an ace (or any other desired card): As shown in Figure 1A, hold the deck with your right thumb and fingers, forefinger knuckled down on top, thumb and midfingers at opposite ends of the deck. Tilt the deck slightly upward from the table, keeping the ends of the deck squared. Before you start the riffling motion, place your index and middle finger of the left hand beneath the bottom card with the left thumb centered beneath the end of the deck. That steadies the deck as the cards are parted with the right thumb. The left thumb catches the parted cards as they fall and facilitates their transfer to the left hand.
Now to locate the ace, begin riffling the deck with your right thumb. Observe the faces of the rapidly passing cards. (The Neocheater does not stare, but glances casually at them.) Now repeat the process, but riffle more slowly. Stop immediately when you see an ace as shown in Figure 1B. (Figure 1B deliberately exposes the ace to show its position. The Neocheater, of course, does not expose the ace to others.) At first, you will probably pass the ace by two or three cards. So try again. Riffle the cards with a casual rhythm -- not too fast, not too slow. Stop the moment you spot an ace. Do this for five minutes. You may feel clumsy at first, but speed and smoothness come rapidly. Soon only the ace will slip by, leaving it the top card on the lower portion of the deck. And that is where you want the ace.[ 6 ]
Now part the deck, passing the portion with the ace on top to your left hand. Then riffle shuffle all the cards together with both hands. But either riffle the left-handed portion of the deck more slowly or retain the ace with your left thumb until the deck is riffled together, dropping the ace last as shown in Figure 2B.
Remember, as you actually try these moves and steps, you will find they are much simpler than they appear in their detailed descriptions.
As explained above, riffle the deck to an ace, let it fall on top of the lower section of the deck, part the deck, and then riffle shuffle so that the ace lands on top of the deck. The entire procedure takes only a few seconds. Continue practicing that move until you can do it smoothly. If you miss stopping at an ace and your thumb has already parted two-thirds of the deck, complete a normal riffle shuffle. Repeat the riffle until you have located an ace. Extra riffle shuffles produce the illusion that the deck is being thoroughly shuffled. (Be cautious of thorough shufflers in a card game.) Using this method to cull an ace or any other card, the Neocheater appears to be riffle shuffling the deck and nothing more. With just ten minutes of practice, anyone can invisibly cull an ace that way.
To proceed, you now have an ace on top of the deck after riffle shuffling. But you want the ace on the bottom for the next move. So place the deck in your left hand for one overhand shuffle. Keep your left thumb firmly on the top card as you lift the entire deck with your right hand. The ace will remain in your left hand. Smoothly and without hurry, overhand shuffle the other cards on top of the ace. That maneuver happens instantaneously and looks perfectly normal.
The ace is now on the bottom after one overhand shuffle. Naturally, Neocheaters do not flash the ace or peek to make certain it is there.
Next, you are going to cut the deck without disturbing that bottom ace. As you finish your overhand shuffle, place the deck face down in the palm of your left hand. Pull fifteen or twenty cards from the center of the deck with your right hand as shown in Figure 3 and gently slap those cards on top of the deck. When done three or four times in rapid succession, such center cuts look very convincing, but the culled ace remains intact.
Now, as shown in Figure 4, grip the lower deck with your left thumb on one side, three fingers on the opposite side, and your left forefinger knuckled beneath the bottom card. Next, grip the upper deck with your right hand, four fingers on top, thumb pressed against lower left corner. At that moment, your right hand completely shields the deck. In a rapid "squaring" motion, press the lower left corner of the deck firmly down and inward with your right thumb to crimp that lower portion of the deck as shown in Figure 4. The thumb presses against and crimps one third to one half of the lower deck -- or roughly fifteen to twenty-five cards. That crimping move takes only a second and is undetectable.
After the lower inside part of the deck has been crimped by your right thumb, shift your right hand to grip the rear lower edges of the deck between your thumb and fingers. Then make an undercut by pulling about half the deck from the bottom and slap those cards on top in a final cut. As you put the deck on the table, quickly square the sides with your fingers.
The Neocheater places the deck with the crimp facing him. Thus, the sides facing his opponents have no visible gaps. Ideally, the crimp should not be visible, only felt. Good crimps leave gaps so slight that they are essentially invisible -- a sixty-fourth of an inch is good. And the gap should never be more than a thirty-second of an inch. (See Figure 5 in which the gap is just slightly larger than a thirty second of an inch for illustrative purposes.) Too much pressure leaves a glaring gap, which, although facing only the cheater, makes the deck look awkwardly tilted.
The deck is now crimped at the ace located in the middle of the deck. The sides of the deck are squared. If you lightly grasp the cards while cutting at about the halfway mark, your thumb will naturally cut at the crimp. Simply lift the upper part of the deck and you will have cut the ace. After the cut, flex the cards outward with your thumb and fingers to remove the crimp as shown in Figure 6.
Missing your crimp can be caused by (a) not crimping forcefully enough -- a rarity with cardboard cards, (b) not squaring the sides of the deck just before you cut, or (c) gripping the deck too tightly as you cut.
A second method of crimping -- the end crimp -- requires pressure on the lower half of the deck while pulling it out to place on top during the final cut as shown in Figure 7. The pressure is exerted quickly with the thumb and fingers of the right hand while tilting the deck and using the left hand to shield the crimping motion from players on the left. Note that the forefinger of the left hand is knuckled underneath the deck, holding it firmly as the lower half of the deck is pushed down and inward by the right thumb and fingers.
Neocheaters often prefer another method of end crimping -- a deck-squaring method involving the right hand as a cover to shield the crimping motion from all directions: With the left forefinger knuckled beneath the bottom card to hold the deck firmly, the left thumb and middle fingers crimp by pulling both lower corners of the deck sharply downward and inward under the protective cover of the right hand that is seemingly squaring the deck.
Figure 8 shows an end crimp with a gap slightly exaggerated for illustrative purposes. A few minutes of practice will reveal how much pressure[ 7 ] is necessary to produce a crimp that is barely visible but easily felt.
Because most players habitually cut at the sides of decks, end crimps reduce their chance of mistakenly hitting the crimp. Also, end crimps require much less pressure than side crimps and are easier to remove.
If another player is to cut first, the Neocheater crimps as usual, but then pulls at least three-quarters of the deck from the bottom and slaps it on top. (The gentle slapping gives the cut an air of finality and conviction, as though he had really mixed the cards thoroughly.) The crimp would then lie quite low in the deck. And since the victim will seldom cut as deep as three-quarters of the deck, the ace is almost always left for the Neocheater.
As an alternative approach when other players cut first, the Neocheater simply reverses his procedure: Instead of culling an ace, he culls a deuce or trey, crimps it, and places the crimp near the middle or slightly higher in the deck. The victim will often cut that deuce or trey at the crimp, leaving the Neocheater with very favorable odds for cutting a higher card.
Fortunes can be won and lost on card cutting. After a strenuous night of card playing, players will sometimes risk all their cash or winnings in a final rash or weary decision to "get it over with" on the cut of a single card. The Neocheater makes sure that the cash from cutting cards ends up in his pocket.
The complete ace-cutting procedure -- riffling, locating the ace, shuffling, crimping, and cutting, including two or three center cuts, takes no more than fifteen seconds. With one hour of practice, you can do the entire procedure rapidly and smoothly.
The success of the ace-cutting technique hinges on two basic maneuvers -- culling the ace (bringing it to the bottom of the deck) and then crimping the deck in a natural motion. ... The key steps in cutting aces with some added tips are reviewed below:
First, riffle the deck to locate an ace. No matter how fast you stop when you see an ace, it usually slips past your thumb by one card, which necessitates the overhand shuffle to position that ace on the bottom. But suppose you stop dead on the ace. Simply complete the riffle, letting the ace --the bottom card of the deck-half in your right hand-- fall first so it is on the bottom. Then crimp and cut (an undercut) the deck to position the crimped ace within the deck. Gently square the sides of the deck before cutting to the crimp. Do not fumble or feel around for the crimp; just naturally grip the deck at about the crimp and the ace will be there waiting.
Practice slowly at first. Strive for naturalness. When riffling, avoid having the cards directly facing you. Instead, hold them at a slight angle so you see just the corners flashing. And if you miss the aces on the first riffle or two, simply riffle shuffle again until you locate an ace -- riffle shuffles are reassuring to victims.
After perhaps a center cut or two, crimp the deck in one quick movement. Remember, the Neocheater's hands and fingers shield the deck while crimping. Practice various pressures with your thumb. Strive to make the crimp nearly invisible. But if a slight gap exists, that is generally acceptable so long as it is not too obvious. Ideally, the gap should be felt, but not seen.
If suspicion develops during a sloppy crimp procedure, several quick center cuts after crimping instead of before can eliminate that suspicion. The undercut (which positions the crimped ace within the deck) looks reassuring immediately after a few center cuts. The center cuts must be pulled from the upper center portion of the deck to avoid disturbing the crimped portion of the deck.
Now, after positioning the crimped ace in the deck with the undercut, square the deck, cut with a gentle grip, and you will not miss the ace. Practice cutting with your eyes closed to get the feel of the crimp.
After cutting the ace, always flex the cards outward to remove the crimp. And if possible, give the edge of the deck a final riffle with your thumb to eliminate any remnants of the crimp.
A good routine for practicing the entire ace-cutting procedure is to cull for ten minutes, crimp for five minutes, and repeat. Then perform the entire procedure from beginning to end for ten minutes. You can master the complete ace-cutting maneuver in an hour.
In the next chapter, you will learn some shortcuts for culling and stacking. Neocheaters never disdain shortcuts or easy advantages in a card game. Indeed, they constantly seek them.
The culling and stacking methods in the next chapter are fast and easy shortcuts routinely used by Neocheaters. After an hour of practice, you will be stacking yourself winning hands in fifteen seconds. You will be invisibly stacking yourself four of a kind in draw, a wheel[ 8 ] in lowball, and aces back-to-back in five-card stud while also knowing every opponent's hole card. ... And if you have ever wondered if professional cheaters really can stack themselves four of a kind with what appears to be two or three rapid shuffles and a cut, the next chapter will open your eyes.
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[ 5 ] If the reader thinks any special skill or dexterity is required for Neocheating, he can peruse the next chapter on Preliminary Stacking right now; and after thirty minutes of practice, he will be stacking aces back-to-back in stud or three of a kind in draw as effectively as many professional cardsharps. But the reader will still have to return to this chapter to learn two indispensable maneuvers.
[ 6 ] If the first ace you spot is too high or too low in the deck (within the top or bottom ten cards or so), pass that ace. Try stopping at an ace closer to the middle. But aces only a third of the way from the top or bottom of the deck are also perfectly workable.
[ 7 ] Different cards (cardboard, plastic, and plastic-coated cards) require different pressures to crimp.
[ 8 ] A "wheel " or "bicycle " is an A,2,3,4,5 of any suit - the best possible hand in most lowball poker games played today.
[ 9 ] Rarely can Neocheating be confirmed by observing just one of the above tells. Since any Neocheating is natural appearing or invisible, it can be confirmed only by observing repeating sequences of tells. While various tells can be used to confirm personal suspicion, they are not grounds to prove cheating to others.
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