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 …