This allows different methods for card sharps to cheat or may be used for magic tricks.
Magicians and card sharps can use the orientations of cards in one-way decks to encode information that allows them to perform card tricks.
This form of stacking is the most difficult to master and the most respected under the card sharp's and magicians.
She is drinking heavily, has lost her singing voice and much of her looks and spends time with card sharps and con artists.
It is used in card illusions, and as a method of card sharp.
He also demonstrates considerable skill at chess (in the episode 18-5-4), and is an accomplished card sharp.
There is a consciousness among all who speak of him that he amasses his money not by honest trade, but by unknown tricks,—as does a card sharper.
