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Adrian Morgan wrote:And I was shocked to find that everything the latter book says about shuffling is complete and utter nonsense. It uses the phrase "table shuffle" to mean what everyone else calls the bog-standard riffle shuffle and implies that it is relatively difficult (it's what I use precisely because I've never got the hang of the overhand shuffle and prefer something easier). Meanwhile, it uses the phrase "riffle shuffle" specifically for a type of riffle shuffle done entirely in the hands, and states that it may be the most common type of shuffle (when really it is much more difficult and accordingly rare). The overhand shuffle isn't even mentioned.
Darrel wrote:On page 24, it states:
"The riffle shuffle is probably the most widely used method of shuffling cards;
I'm not a cardie, but I always thought there was a riffle shuffle, as described, then a table riffle shuffle.
Part-Timer wrote:I'm not a cardie, but I always thought that the table shuffle was the one where you run your thumbs up the 'innermost' corners of the two packets of cards, causing them to interweave. You then push the packets together.
A riffle shuffle (with or without a table), is where you put pressure in the middle of the backs of the two packets, springing them downwards, so the whole of the innermost short ends interleave. The packets are then pushed together, although they are already largely there.
Cardza wrote:I've always referred to the end-end as the riffle shuffle (which is the one most laypeople seem to know and do, alongside the overhand shuffle) and the corner-corner as the dovetail shuffle. The riffle shuffle done in the hands as an in the hands riffle shuffle.
Adrian Morgan wrote:Just to clarify:Darrel wrote:On page 24, it states:
"The riffle shuffle is probably the most widely used method of shuffling cards;
More common than the overhand? Yeah, right.
Nah, there's a riffle shuffle, and then a riffle shuffle without a table.
Adrian Morgan wrote:Darrel wrote:On page 24, it states:
"The riffle shuffle is probably the most widely used method of shuffling cards;
More common than the overhand? Yeah, right.
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