Shank Shuffle

For many years I was refer­ring to this as a vari­ant of the ‘Zarrow-Shuf­fle’, until Karl-Heinz Rit­ter from Munich cor­rect­ed me, point­ing out to me it’s actu­al­ly more of a shank shuf­fle. For years I believed I was doing a prop­er Zarrow, which I was not (incom­pe­tence?). What­ev­er it is (Rober­to Giob­bi will prob­a­bly set things right some­time) it works. And is one of my all-time tabled false shuf­fle.

Why? Because I can do it flaw­less­ly even when work­ing with a used bor­rowed deck and being pissed. More than one time this shuf­fle saved my life …

The red card in the video is a dou­ble card. Two cards glued togeth­er but over­lap­ping for about 2 mm, so that I have a thick card in com­bi­na­tion with a broad card. This card in the video shows as aJok­er. This way, the whole shuf­fle is even eas­i­er and more con­vinc­ing, because I don’t have to hold a break in between shuf­fles. Fig­ure this one out for your­selves …