False strip-cut shuffle

The strip-cut false shuffle.

A false shuffle is the first move a new card handler should learn, and learn well, it is necessary when preforming almost any card routine.

The deck of cards is positioned face down on the table in front of the magician, the long side of the deck facing the magician. The right hand grips one side of the deck, thumb on the back outer corner, the index finger near center, middle finger just off center and ring finger on the outer corner. 

The left hand grips the other side of the deck in the same manner.

The right hand draws about half the deck off the top and to the right onto the table. With the two half's face down on the table. The halves are slightly rotated so the back two inter corners are facing each other in preparation of shuffling the two halves together. 

In one action both hands being the shuffle riffling cards with the thumb on the back side of each packet closer to the outer corner. The right thumb riffles a couple cards, then the left thumb riffles a few cards till all the cards in both halves are interlaced about an inch.

The pinks of each hand are positioned on the outer ends of each pack the ring fingers on the front of each pack on the outer corners, thumbs are on the back edge. 

In this way you push the interlaced packs together a little crooked till the inter front corners hit the ring fingers on the opposite hands, then the index finger and middle finger on each hand push the protruding corners in flush with the rest, leaving about a quarter inch of each pack hidden from view protruding on each side of the deck in preparation to be striped out and put back in the original order.

The fingers being on the front of the deck at all times provide a great deal of coverage keeping things hidden from view as much as possible, plus these actions are to be preformed in quick succession, giving very little time for the moves to be seen.

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