Are both of the same genus with the foregoing ones. All from the eight
to the king are cut convex, and all from the deuce to the seven,
concave. Thus, by cutting the pack in the centre, a convex card is cut;
and by taking hold of the cards, in cutting them, at either end of the
pack, a concave card is secured.
[Illustration: Fig. 165.]
Sometimes these cards are cut the reverse way to the foregoing one, so
that if suspicion arises, a pack of this description is substituted for
the others. But here the sharper has not so great a pull in his favour,
because the intended victim may cut in the usual way, and so cut a low
card to the dealer. But the possibility, or rather certainty, of his
being able, by any means to cut or deal a high or low card at pleasure,
is an advantage against which no skill in the game can avail.