Playing card as these 52 cards, commercial packs often include between one and six jokers, most often two. Decks with less than 52 cards are known as stripped decks. The piquet pack has all values from 2 through 6 in each suit removed for a total of 32 cards. It is popular in France, the Low Countries, Central Europe and Russia and is used to play piquet, belote, bezique and skat. It is also used in the Sri Lankan, whist-based game known as "omi". Forty-card French suited packs are common in northwest Italy; these remove the 8s through 10s like Latin suited
S. W. Erdnase Herbert Lee Andrews, which have been discussed and debated on the Erdnase topic on the Genii Forum since 2003 S. W. Erdnase S. W. Erdnase is a pseudonym used by the author of "The Expert at the Card Table", a book detailing sleight of hand, cheating and legerdemain using playing cards. Still considered essential reading for any card magician, the book (usually known as just "Erdnase", EATCT, or sometimes "the Bible") has been in publication since 1902. Erdnase's true identity is one of the enduring mysteries of the magic community. S. W. Erdnase was most likely a way for the