Zarrow shuffle

Zarrow shuffle

Zarrow shuffle is a sleight of hand technique that gives the appearance of being a normal riffle shuffle, when the cards being manipulated maintain the order the magician or card sharp desires. It was invented by magician Herb Zarrow "circa" 1940.cite web
url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly7xf0FccvI
title = Zarrow Shuffle
accessdate = 2008-01-07
publisher = You Tube
quote = Herb Zarrow demonstrates his shuffle. ] cite web
url = http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=320
title = Herb Zarrow on the Zarrow Shuffle (DVD)
accessdate = 2008-01-07
last = Zarrow
first = Herb
publisher = Penguin Magic ] cite book
last = Britland
first = David
coauthors = Gazzo
title = Phantoms of the Card Table: Confessions of a Card Sharp
origyear = 2004
accessdate = 2008-01-07
edition = 1st Ed.
publisher = Four Walls Eight Windows
location = New York
isbn = 978-1568582993
pages = page 109
quote = [Zarrow] created a false riffle shuffle of such beauty that it is quite possibly the only move to have been originated by a magician and that has found its way into world of card cheating. ]

This is an example of a false shuffle. The shuffle appears to be a normal riffle shuffle to spectators. In fact, it leaves the cards in exactly the same order as before the shuffle.

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