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Step 1
Begin with the deck of cards lying on the table in front of you with the long edges on the horizontal. Your hands should be on either side of the cards, ready to shuffle.
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Step 2
Grab the deck at the corner edges with your thumbs along the bottom long edge and your forefingers at the corners of the top long edge. Substitute the middle fingers for the forefingers if it is more comfortable for you.
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Step 3
Split the deck into two separate halves by pulling the top half to the right and the bottom half to the left. This is a horizontal motion that leaves the two packs of cards 2 inches away from each other with short edges facing each other.
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Step 4
Take the thumbs and place them along the inside edge of each deck, close to the bottom corners. This means the thumbs are almost touching, the forefingers are touching the middle of the top long edges and the middle and ring fingers are framing the cards along the outer short edge of each deck.
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Step 5
Fold over both index fingers so that they apply pressure to the center point of each half of the cards as you lift the inner edge of the cards off the table about half an inch with the pads of your thumbs. The middle and ring fingers are still gripping the outside edge as in Step 4.
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Step 6
Release the cards slowly from the thumb grips; one at a time, so that the edges overlap each other as they fall, as you maintain continuous pressure with the index fingers. This means the cards from each stack take turns having their shirt inner edges fall on top of each other. Continue Step 6 until all the cards have run through both thumbs.
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Step 7
Use middle and ring fingers to push the two outer edges in toward each other, forcing the cards to stack on top of each other into a neat single pile.
