Cugel wrote:Whether Erdnase gives any advice on application is a question of fact, not opinion. Examine the text - it's all there if you actually read it and comprehend its meaning.
For one, the fact that you see something there doesn't mean it's actually there, follow what I'm saying? People have found secret messages and prophecies in the Bible, doesn't mean they were there to start with.
Second, you seem to misunderstand what "getting the money" means. It has to do with much more than just card technique. None of the quoted sections you provided speak about it. Sure, they speak of the technical points, and even in some cases of possible shade. But getting the money? No, not really. For example:
"After a blind shuffle, with the desired cards on the bottom, the dealer palms in the left and passes the deck with the right to be cut. After the cut he picks up the deck with the right hand and replaces the palmed cards, when squaring up for the deal."
In what game would you use this? At what time (both relative to the table situation and the actual time of day)? What advantage do you expect from it? When is it best used, when is it no help? All the quote addresses above is the way to do the technique, but nothing in there tells you when to actually use the move, and how to get the money with it.
Or:
The dealer holds the location of the cut until the hands are dealt. Then the desired cards can be dealt from the bottom during the next deal. This moment, after the first deal, is the most favorable, as the players are occupied with their hands, the cut has been made quite regularly, the deal finished and consequently there is less cause for close scrutiny. But principally... [continues at length]..."
Again, what game are you playing? Why this and not another technique? What cards are you holding out and why?
How do you build the money? How do you cool someone off? How do you get in, how do you get out? How do you find the party to start with, or start one if there's none? Erdnase didn't address this, unless I'm mistaken.
Knowing 10 different bottom deals and being able to perform them flawlessly doesn't get you the money, there is much more to it than that. As such, while EATCT is a great work, it does not teach you how to get the money.
Just the opinion of someone who's neither a gentleman nor a scholar, take it or leave it I guess.
Nourdin, if you want DVDs of Erdnase moves, stick around and buy the Allan Ackerman DVDs once they are out, should be any time now.
EDIT: On review, Mr. Baxter seems to have worded it more succinctly than I.