Allan Ackerman

Advanced Card Control Volume 7: False Counts (for resale)

27 Jul 2010

Sleights & Moves:

The Elmsley Count
Counting Terminology
The X-Y-Z Count
Underground Elmsley Count
The OPEC Count
The Jordan Count
3-4-3 Count
3-5-4 Count
2-X-2 Count
2-4-4 Count
The Olram Subtlety
The OPOS Count
The Gemini

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Advanced Card Control Volume 6: Faro Shuffle (for resale)

27 Jul 2010

Sleights & Moves:

In-The-Hands Faro Technique
Cutting At 26
Adjusting the Cut
In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
Re-Squaring the Packets
In Case of a Miss
Rock & Re-Weave
The Faro Shuffle as a Real Shuffle
Further

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Advanced Card Control Volume 4: Flourishes, Lifts & Changes (for resale)

27 Jul 2010

Sleights & Moves:

The Thumb Fan
Pressure Fans
One-Handed Fans
One-Handed Overhand Shuffle
On-Handed Faro Shuffle
Charlier (One-Handed) Cut
The Kosy Cut
Charlier Cut with a Somersault
Erdnase One-Handed Cut
The Distinction Between

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27 Jul 2010

Advanced Card Control Volume 3: Controls (for resale)

Controls. Breaks, peeks, glimpses, crimps, jogs, passes, shifts, twists, reversals, replacements, shuffle controls, hofzinser control, convincing control...all the good stuff you need to know to have full control of your deck of cards.

Sleights & Moves:

Little

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27 Jul 2010

Reassembled Finale

Four hands are dealt starting with an Ace for each hand. Another three cards are dealt on top of each ace. One at a time the Aces travel to the magicians hand - your standard Ace assembly. However, in a flash the aces jump back and on top of each pack

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28 Oct 2009

$6.00

Cannibal Kings

The four kings are shown and pronounced to be cannibals. A random card is pushed between the four kings and vanishes. The kings have eaten the card. This happens a few more times until the kings ate too much and change to the four Eights.

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Dunbury Delusion

A card is selected and returned to the deck. The performer cuts to a random position to show an indicator card. The value of the indicator card is used to count to another card which the performer thinks is the chosen card. However, the indicator card

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Easy Off Pips

Deck is shuffled and spectator cuts to a card. Performer removes one pip at a time from the card until it is entirely blank and as a final climax the card vanishes completely.

runtime: 3min 11s

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Devilish Miracle

Two cards are peeked at. Performer selects a few cards from the pack an shows them. One spectator notes that his card is among the ones shown. When the cards are shown again, the spectator card is missing and reappears in the other portion of the deck

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Variant's Variant

This routine was first published in Allan's book Here is my Card. The four kings are shown. A deuce is placed under the top king of the four king packet. Magically the deuce rises to the top. Then the deuce is placed third from the top but it still manages

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Ace Assembly Variation

You deal four hands of cards. The first card for each hand is an ace followed by four indifferent cards. However, magically all the aces assembly in the performers packet.

You will need to be familiar with the Veeser Concept to perform this effect.

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Spectator Cuts the Aces

A deck rests on the table. The spectator is asked to cut it into four roughly equal packets. The top card on each packet turns out to be an ace.

You will need to be familiar with the Veeser Concept to perform this effect.

runtime: 2min

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16 Jun 2009

$4.00

Ten Card Trick

This is Allan's variation of the famous Eleven Card Trick. That reads like a joke, but it ain't. The spectator counts ten cards and hands them to the performer who double checks counting them aloud. However, often he counts, adds and removes cards, they

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

Deceptive Perception

This is an updated handling of a Le Paul effect. A blue and a red backed deck are used. The spectator selects a card from the blue backed deck. This card is mixed into a small packet of red backed cards. Magically the back colors change and suddenly the

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

No Palm Travelers

This routine was first published in Allan's Moose Notes. The subject of the performance is shuffle tracking. Spectators are signing the four kings, which are lost in the pack. Nevertheless the magician finds them. But then they magically change to the

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

Twins

This is Allan's handling of a famous Brother John Hamman effect. Black queens transform into red queens and black kings transform into red kings, all tied together in a fun story of a double date going to a bar.

runtime: 5min 28s

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

Evapor-ace-tion

The four aces are shown. When they are counted and they reduce to three, then two, one and finally none. A few cuts and the aces are found again in the deck.

runtime: 3min 34s

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

Twisting the Aces

This is a tremendously visual effect developed by Dai Vernon using the Elmsley Count. The aces one by one turn face-up while the four aces are merely shown and counted. For the climax the black aces change place with the red aces while they are

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00

Faro Mental Displacement

This is a 'princess' style mental effect. Spectator receives a few cards, remembers one of them and then these cards are shuffled back into the rest of the deck. The performer shows groups of cards to the spectator until a group is identified that holds

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15 Jun 2009

$4.00