Card Shuffling

[angus]

Never heard of any of those. 

I usually pick up half the deck in my right hand and the other half with the left.  The cards are face down at that point.  I then bow them slightly--convex on the front side, concave on the back--using my thumb and middle finger to hold the half-deck along the short ends while depressing them slightly with my index finger.  I do this with each hand and then bring the two hands together until my thumbs are about a centimeter apart.  Then I flip them, sort of the way you use your thumb to flip through a new stack of printer paper before loading the printer tray in order to avoid paper jam.  As I flip them they fall into place more or less alternately, left card, right card, left card, right card, etc., while making a nice flapping sound, the way it does when you clip a playing card on your bicycle forks with a clothespin when you're a kid to get that motorcycle sound.  After they fall into place, I sort of push the edges of the deck together with my palms while simultaneously bending them back up opposite way--convex on the back side, concave on the front--and flip them into a neat stack using my ring finger, pinkie finger, and heel of my palm as guides.  It makes a bit of a sloppy flapping noise during that stage, not like crisp flap of the card clipped to the forks but more like an older woman being entered, dry, for the fifth or sixth time in an evening.  I repeat this process about three times then offer the deck to my opponent for an optional cut.