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Small cards frequently take tricks when attached to long suits (four or more cards in the suit).

The dummy’s established small-card tricks are of absolutely no use until you draw trumps, ending up in the dummy.

Look at the honor cards at the head of your suit and estimate how many tricks you think you can take with those honors. Add an automatic three to that number.

When you have sure tricks in a suit, you don’t have to play them right away. You can take sure tricks at any point during the play of the hand.

the greatest card manipulator of our own time, Steve Forte,

In the modern casino game of blackjack, the player can gain a consistent advantage over the house by using the strategy presented in this book. Based on the mathematical theory of probability, this strategy was worked out with an electronic computer by the author and others. It is fortunate and perhaps surprising that the system reduces to a few si

The answer to too many losers is being able to take tricks with the smaller cards attached to five- or six-card suits — usually, but not always, in the dummy.

The Expert at the Card Table, written under the pseudonym S. W. Erdnase, has stood for more than a century as magic’s most thorough and well-regarded text on playing card sleight of hand. If you are serious about magic, reading the book should be first on your to-do list.