Allan Ackerman products: page 7

This multiple shift is by Ed Marlo. It operates in two phases where in the first phase you bring the cards together that were inserted in different positions in the deck. And in the second phase, you bring these cards to the top.

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This is a very subtle way to place a key card. It is essentially self-working and wonderfully deceptive.

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Once you have a break you want to handle and display the deck such that it appears to be impossible to hold a break. Here is one sequence of bends and riffles developed by Ed Marlo and published in his Card Control Series from the 1950s.

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Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well-covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left-hand magician's palm.

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This is a very deceptive technique. It allows you to keep a break while doing a pressure fan.

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This is a little convincing noise that you can add to a double lift to subtlely underscore that it is only one card.

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Holding a little finger break is probably the most basic and important technique to master in card magic. Allan teaches you how to make this break invisible.

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Allan Ackerman is considered one of the top cardmen in the world. He has an incredibly broad repertoire with cards. In Las Vegas Kardma you'll find over 50 choice Ackerman masterpieces, ranging from completely self working to the knucklebusters that cardmen love to study. Allan's routines are designed with one main goal, totally devastate an audience.

Table of Contents

1. Gemini Mates and its Variations
   12. My Favorite Gemini
   15. Tell-All Gemini
   18. Gem-Money Mates
   20. Aronson's Gemini
2. Ace Assemblies
   23. Finally Unassembled
   29. Finally Unassembled-Gaffed
   34. Bag of O'Henrys
   39. Some More Blues
3. Every Move...

This is a beautiful Larry Jenning routine where hand progressively gets better and better starting from a simple pair all the way to a straight flush.

runtime: 9min 32s

Combine a palm and a lap to switch out a card.

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This is a fancy multi-packet false cut.

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This is a wonderfully convincing because visual false overhand shuffle developed by Roger Klause.

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This is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break.

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Use a Kick Count to crimp a peeked at card.

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A jogged card can be seen by a spectator if the pack is placed on the table. Allan teaches you how to use a dribble to disguise the jog, but at the same time allows you to maintain the jogged card.

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The Jordan Count, developed by Charles Jordan, interfaces nicely with the Elmsley Count, because after the Jordan Count you are setup to do an Elmsley Count and vice versa, after an Elmsley Count you can do a Jordan Count without any adjustment, always hiding one card.

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This is a 2-4-4 count developed by Ed Marlo. You show two cards at the same time, table them and then show the remaining two cards, all while you hide two of the four cards.

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Another beautiful switch attributed to Larry Jennings and Ken Krenzel.

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This is an overhand shuffle that allows you to retain cards in their respective half. Say you have all black cards in the top half of the deck and all red cards in the bottom half of the deck. This shuffle will keep all the red and black cards together. But it is not a complete false shuffle, because each half by itself is shuffled. This is a very useful move for effects like Out Of This World, Oil and Water, and other others.

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This count deceives both the eyes and the ears.

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This visual and simple ace display was worked out by Lee Asher, Darin Martineau and Allan Ackerman.

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This is technique from Trapdoor Magazine, a variation of the Incomplete Faro Control, and it allows you to control a selected card to the top or bottom.

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This technique allows you to control a spectator-selected card exactly to the 26th position from the top.

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Allan describes in detail how to do an in-the-hand faro shuffle. He explains the difference between an in-faro and out-faro, how to correct if the weave is not perfect, as well as several other fine points and tips to make this difficult move easier to perform and practice.

runtime: 11min 4s