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A card sharp (as opposed to a card shark) is a person who purposely cheats at cards with the aim of making money. Card sharps are also known as "mechanics" — an older term is "greek". Image File history File links The_Cardsharps. ...
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The Cardsharps (around 1594) is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). ...
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A card shark is an expert card game player who feasts on weaker fish players. ...
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Methods
Card sharps typically use methods also employed by magicians to keep control of the order of the cards or sometimes to control one specific card. Most, if not all, of these methods employ sleight of hand. Essential skills are the false shuffles and "false cuts" that appear to mix the deck but actually leave the cards in the same order. More advanced techniques include "culling", which is manipulating desired cards to the top or bottom of the deck, and "stacking", which puts desired cards in position to be dealt. Magic, including the arts of prestidigitation and conjuring, is the art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that baffle and amaze, often by giving the impression that something impossible has been achieved, almost as if the performer had magic or supernatural powers. ...
Sleight-of-hand, also known as legerdemain, is a technique of close-up magic in which small items are concealed in and around the performers hands, sometimes by the use of misdirection, to enhance the illusion being performed. ...
The riffle Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games. ...
Some typical Anglo-American playing cards from the Bicycle brand Set of 52 playing cards A playing card is a typically hand-sized piece of heavy paper or thin plastic. ...
Dealing can also be manipulated by dealing either the bottom card from the deck or the second one from the top instead of the top card. These are called the "bottom deal" and the "second deal" respectively.
Magician's view The use of these methods to cheat at cards is generally frowned upon by magicians, as they can paint magicians as swindlers. However, they often use card sharps as the subject for card routines, to show off their skills. For example, Derek Dingle created an effect, later modified by Michael Ammar and performed on television with a slightly different handling, while retaining the same handling of the deck, inserts the four aces into the deck, shuffles the cards (face-up into face-down), and finds all of them in 30 seconds under the watchful eye of 2 casino security people, leaving 4 royal flushes — all face up — in the end. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Etymology The etymology of the term "card sharp" is debated. A popular theory is that it comes from the German word Scharper, which in one sense means swindler. Another theory, which is likely false etymology, is that card sharp is a degenerate form of card shark, which itself is an analogy to the term pool shark. In actuality, the reverse is more likely to be true: card sharp is the original term, and card shark was likely formulated later, influenced by corruption of the term card sharp and by either analogy to pool shark or as a fresh shark metaphor. Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ...
A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ...
A false etymology is an assumed or postulated etymology which is incorrect from the perspective of modern scholarly work in historical linguistics. ...
Pool Shark was the 11th episode of the hit Nickelodeon sitcom Drake and Josh. ...
In film Card sharps are often common characters in caper films, since the questionable legality and morality of their hobby also plays well with that of their occupation. Examples of such films are: The caper story is a subgenre of crime fiction. ...
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) is a British film directed and written by Guy Ritchie, and produced by Matthew Vaughn. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
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Rounders is a 1998 film about the underground world of high-stakes poker. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
On television - Sanford and Son featured an episode where card sharps defeated Lamont at poker; while he went to get drinks, Fred was able (through a specially marked deck and one of his many pairs of reading glasses) to defeat the card sharps and win Lamont's money back.
- Harry Anderson made several appearances on Cheers as card sharp "Harry the Hat."
Sanford and Son is an American television sitcom, the U.S. remake of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son. ...
Harry Anderson (born October 14, 1952) is an American actor and magician. ...
Cheers was a American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. ...
See also // Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players. ...
Second dealing is a method of illegally influencing the outcome of a poker game by way of dealing the second, rather than the top, card of the deck. ...
Card marking is the process of altering playing cards such that the suit, rank or both are only apparent to the person marking the cards or potentially another conspirator. ...
External link - Discussion of the etymology of the term
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