Cheating at cards can be done in a variety of ways. These can include collusion, sleight-of-hand movements like bottom stacking the deck, the use of physical objects such as marked cards, cold decks or holdout devices. A card mechanic A card mechanic, or card sharp -- not to be confused with card shark -- is a card cheat who specializes in sleight-of-hand card manipulation. You'll find this handiwork employed by most magicians who, like a card sharp, try to keep track of, sometimes, just one specific card, and other times, the order of a complete deck.
Although there is no space here to describe all the hundreds of ways that Card Sharps cheat, but there is one trick that is perhaps the easiest of all to master, and it may be used against you at any time. This is called "dealing seconds."
Dealing seconds is manipulating either the second card from the top, or the bottom card, instead of the customary top one. This stunt is also called "second deal" or "bottom deal" respectively. Any deuce dealer with a little practice can deal the second card, the bottom card, the second-from-bottom card, even the middle card without an untrained eye spotting what's going on. Someone of masterful hand dexterity could even "cull", meaning finding the cards he needs, placing them at the bottom, top, or any other place the cheat fancies, then falsely dealing them to himself or to a confederate player on the game.
You can identify a seconds-dealing pagan in your home-game village by looking at how the deck is gripped. A card manipulator will use what is known as the "mechanic's grip," a handclasp of the cards that makes it easier to deal not only seconds, but from the bottom, or even from the middle of the deck. A right-handed dealer holds the deck in his left hand, three fingers on the edge of the long side of the deck, and the index finger on the outer right corner.
Certainly a mechanic's grip alone is not enough proof to accuse anyone of being a double-dealing sharper, and you never want to get involved in a cockeyed game where cheating is going on, unless, of course, you are of the mind-set of legendary gambler Canada Bill. Bill was losing his entire bankroll at Faro when a friend approached and said, "Bill, don't you know this game is crooked?" "Yes," answered Canada Bill, "but it's the only game in town."
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