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Professional Gamesters And Their Frauds

There can be no doubt that the act of sorting the cards is
capable of giving an acute observer a tolerably accurate idea of
his partner's or either of his opponents' hands; so that where
cheating is suspected it would be better to play the cards
without sorting them. The number of times a sorter carries a
card to a particular part indicates so many of a suit; your own
hand and his play will readily indicate the nature of the cards
in which he is either strong or weak.

I now quote Robert-Houdin's account of

CARD TELEGRAPHY.

Although there are 32 cards in the game of Piquet, all of them
may be designated by twelve different signs, namely, eight for
the nature of the cards, and four for the colours.

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