Magic Tricks

Provides a very detailed explanation for this shuffle. As others have noted, this is what was known as the Shank Shuffle. Ed Marlo wrote a whole treatise on it, and he discussed in detail the differences between the Shank and the Zarrow, while acknowledging that they're nearly identical in execution and result. But that treatise is hard to find, the Shank Shuffle has faded into obscurity, and yet some, including Marlo, preferred it to the Zarrow. Though he calls it the Hunter Shuffle, this DVD revives a highly useful sleight and, at the current price, it's a steal. A great piece of history and a very practical false riffle shuffle.