Just a few clarifications:
What is being called the "Draw Shift" (as good a name as any I guess), was in print in the 1860s with illustrations. It's much, much older than Marlo. Look in Robert-Houdin's Card-Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed for an illustration of the basic concept.
I know of about a half-dozen table shifts being done under fire. I have all but one of them on surveillance footage. Although the camera caught the moves, no one at the table snapped. You'd be surprised at what people will ride when they don't know what they're looking for or when to look. On film: the Artanis shift (2 different guys doing it), the Ping-Pong shift, the "draw" shift, the "Filipino Freddie shift" (and a variation) and a shift that I don't have a name for. All were executed at a full table, of regular poker players in a major cardroom. No one saw a thing (at the table).
You give laymen too much credit for being able to pick off moves. Don't project your knowledge and ability to spot moves onto others. When I showed my poker dealing instructor a second deal, bottom deal and a push-through shuffle, his eyes almost popped out of his head. This is a guy that's been dealing poker for 28 years and playing poker even longer than that. He said he'd heard of those moves but had never seen them before.
I have it on good authority that CM used his shift at the tables too, under very special circumstances.
Classy.
Jason
What is being called the "Draw Shift" (as good a name as any I guess), was in print in the 1860s with illustrations. It's much, much older than Marlo. Look in Robert-Houdin's Card-Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed for an illustration of the basic concept.
I know of about a half-dozen table shifts being done under fire. I have all but one of them on surveillance footage. Although the camera caught the moves, no one at the table snapped. You'd be surprised at what people will ride when they don't know what they're looking for or when to look. On film: the Artanis shift (2 different guys doing it), the Ping-Pong shift, the "draw" shift, the "Filipino Freddie shift" (and a variation) and a shift that I don't have a name for. All were executed at a full table, of regular poker players in a major cardroom. No one saw a thing (at the table).
You give laymen too much credit for being able to pick off moves. Don't project your knowledge and ability to spot moves onto others. When I showed my poker dealing instructor a second deal, bottom deal and a push-through shuffle, his eyes almost popped out of his head. This is a guy that's been dealing poker for 28 years and playing poker even longer than that. He said he'd heard of those moves but had never seen them before.
I have it on good authority that CM used his shift at the tables too, under very special circumstances.
Classy.
Jason
