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One Handed False Deals

Hey

Does anyone know good resources to learn one handed false deals? Like Seconds and Bottoms?

Thanks,
J.

As far as easily-obtained resources go, there's a one hand bottom in Erdnase and Expert Card Technique has a few. In the world of DVDs, Richard Turner's The Cheat and Best of the Bottoms have a nice selection.
 
In Doc Jon's "In The Life" vol. 2 there are a few excellent one handed second deals.

You should buy all the DVDs, though. It's basically Doc John (a card cheater) who sits down with a few other notable magicians and cheaters and tells his life story and career of cons and cheating. It has the feel of you actually being there with them. And, you learn some awesome moves.
 
Erdnase has a small section that goes over a 1 handed method for both top and second. He describes them as 'pretty'
 
Fiddling with this today, and I'm sure I'm not the first, you can modify a push off second deal to be one handed.

PS: Thanks for bringing up this topic, I've been having a lot of fun practicing this.
 
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The best resource I've seen on false dealing period is Marlo's Revolutionary Card Technique. Over 500 pages of pure awesomness. Quite a big section on false deals too. About 200 pages of which 75 are on 1 handed false deals.