To become an adept at second dealing is as difficult a task as can be given in card handling, but once acquired, like many other arts, it is as easy as habit.
This is an example of how little previous experience I have with EATCT. In thinking about my goals for the year a passable second deal was top of the list. It is a move I have always been fascinated by and even remember being accused of using when playing cards at school. I have never attempted to do it but assumed that it would be something that a fair bit of time was devoted to in the book.
Turns out there are roughly two pages discussing the second deal and half of one page is taken up with illustrations. I was a bit surprised but it just shows that I don’t have much more experience with Erdnase than I do with dealing seconds.
It is not going to affect my goal at all. I want to transition myself to dealing like a right-handed person would, which means I need to spend a bunch of time just dealing cards, so I might as well spend that time dealing seconds.
Jason England has a great section in Fundamentals 1 going over the strike second, which interestingly is not one of the ways mentioned by Erdnase, so I am going to work on that as I deal countless right handed hands.
I’ve never quite made up my mind on Daniel Madison but I do like these cards and love the commercial.