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b. This method of double dealing employs the Erdnase bottom deal, page 52, The Expert at the Card Table. As with the preceding method, it is for use with a small number of cards.

1. Hold the cards in the left hand, the first and second fingers curled up and pressing against the outer end at the right corner, the third and fourth fingers resting against the right side, the thumb lying diagonally across the pack with its tip pointing to the outer right corner. The pack is supported by the inward pressure of the outermost phalange of the second finger at the outer right corner which, exerted diagonally, presses the inner left corner into the flesh of the palm below the base of the thumb. When this grip is taken the left first, third and fourth fingers can be removed from the packet and it will remain supported between the second finger and the flesh of the palm. Note, in Fig. 3, that the outer right corner is pressed into the flesh of the first phalange of the second finger.

This grip is a modification of the Erdnase method which is preferred by some; the grip as described by Erdnase may, however, be used for this deal with equally satisfactory results should the reader prefer it.

2. Push off the top card of the packet with the left thumb, the card pivoting at the left inner corner on the flesh of the palm, and bring the right hand up to the packet to remove this card in the same grip used in the preceding method. The ball of the thumb and the side of the second finger press lightly against the outer right corner of the card from above and below; the first finger presses against the tip of the left second finger and helps to screen the next action, in which the bottom card is pushed from the pack, Fig. 1.

3. Concealed by the card which has been pushed over the right side of the packet, press the tip of the left third finger inward and to the right against the bottom card near the outer right corner, Fig. 4. This action buckles this card and enables the third finger easily to release it from the inward pressure of the second finger and to move it directly under the top card, the bottom card also pivoting at the inner left corner upon the flesh at the base of the thumb.

4. Move the tip of the right first finger inwards, pressing it against the outer ends of the two cards at the corner in order to place them in alignment, grasp the corners, between the right thumb and second finger and deal the two cards as one, as shown in Fig. 2.

The deal is made similarly, so that the right hand and wrist mask the dealt packet as much as possible; and again if there is to be an error in alignment, it should be on the right side of the dealt cards, not the left.

A clean deal can be had with very little practice.