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A reading system that gives you the necessary ammo to deliver a highly effective private reading for paying clients.

Have you ever wanted to be able to deliver a quick or full-blown reading for members of your audience or clients using something you carry every day, especially if you are a magician or mentalist?

If you are a magician or mentalist, have you ever considered maximizing the impact your card effect has on your audience, by giving your spectator a quick reading about themselves?

Or, if you've always wanted to learn how to give people readings using nothing but a deck of ordinary...

Chaos Prediction is an effect with great surprises and twists. For the spectator, it will be an impossible event because he shuffles the deck and he will do all the work. Despite the impossible premises, the magician's predictions will be infallible and the order is established above the chaos. A real great climax of emotions. Simple to do. All with a normal deck of cards.

Joseph B will explain the principle behind it and guide you step by step in its execution.

1st edition 2021, video 15 min 26 s.

• ...
  • ...Basing
  • Front Loading
  • The Cut
  • Oh, Excuse Me...
• Stacking
  • Definitions
  • The Lay Stack
  • Shuffle Techniques
  • Getting Past The Cut
  • Advanced Shuffle Techniques
  • Heads Up
• The Cooler
  • Old Fashioned
  • The Switcher
  • The Dealer
  • The Shills
  • The BP
  • Turners
  • The Details
  • Computer Coolers
• Switching Cards in Play
  • Handmucking
  • Two-Player Switches
• Gambling Across America
• What is Legal?
• Other Casino Games
  • Craps
  • Combinations of Dice
  • Roulette
  • Baccarat
  • Slots
  • Keno
  • Poker
  • Sports Betting, and Horse Racing
  • The Bullseye
• Conclusions
• Glossary
• Resources
  • Books
  • Videos
  • Periodicals ...

The information contained in Cheating at Hold'em is not a magician's version of how to cheat at cards; it is an authentic, accurate and educational demonstration of the professional cheater's ploys exactly as employed in actual play.

Cheating at Hold'em explores and acquaints you with all known artifices employed by both professional and amateur card cheats:

Marked Cards
A cursory perusal...

STACKED IMPACT Join the ranks of Alan, Crandall, Paul and Ryan with this well-proven Dice Stacking crowd-pleaser with your choice of two powerful punchlines.

STANDING TEN COUNT Spectator counts ten cards; they continue to multiply in their hands until the jolting juggernaut finale!

RED HOT MAMA One of magic's finest openers: Al Leech's signature effect, as beautifully baffling as it is easy to perform. It just might be the best surprise transposition ever.

THE BIG STOP The classic "stop"...

1. ... Issue 7-8, December-January 1986/7 – Stephen Tucker, editor – 24 pages (beginning on file page 76)
1. Boxed – coin box routine - Wayne Dobson
3. Pointer Poker – card effect - Kevin Reay
5. Glass Go - vanishing coins and glass - Wayne Dobson
6. Cut – card effect - John Gordon
7. The Fate Line – cards and coins - Stephen Tucker
10. Don't Wind Me Up! – cards and wind-up toy - John Hotowka
11. Roll Up, Roll Up – metal bending stunt - Stephen Tucker
12. Poker Players Panic – card effect – Al Smith
13. Chatterbox – comments from the editor
14. Elevate – card effect - Fabian
15. Demolition – radio...

I have brought some of the plots and patter, up to date...but in no way have I changed the bare essence of the effects or plots. Every magician who wishes to perform and entertain with a deck of cards must know the classics of card magic. It is that simple. If you don't know the classics...you will be floundering like a fish out of water - and the spectators will know it.

There are some who will say, "Oh, I don't use cards in my magic!" and that is a sad thing. There are many easy-to-do...

2) AMBITIOUS CARD - Paul takes you through a detailed explanation of each step, the psychology of each step, and why this is the most performed card effect of all time!

3) POKER MENTAL - This classic combines a thrilling Poker demo, combined with ESP. Paul's easy rendition uses no sleights, and will fool everyone who doesn't know this easy-to-do, remarkable secret. This effect is a must.

4) INSIDE-OUT ACES - Paul takes this classic by Leipzig and Doc Daley, to new heights. This inexplicable routine concludes with an impossible ending that...

In this full-color illustrated ebook Ben has collected together seven of his favorite, original card effects - the material which he can rely on to astound any audience. These are fresh and at times visual takes on classic plots where clever thinking meets sleight of hand meets good structuring to create powerful, close-up card magic...

• Monty's First Dual: As an addendum to your favourite Monte routine and using just three, regular cards you apparently cause - in the fairest possible manner and with no moves whatsoever - the designated 'Money' card to exchange places with one of the two indifferent...

1. ...The Dwarf's Bowling Trophy
45. Ball & Vase Routine
47. Vanglass
51. A "Spoonerism"
53. Pencil-Tration
55. Imp-Ossible

    Section Two: Karrell's Kard Koncepts

61. "Rip-Off"
63. The Barbershop Shuffle
66. Butterfly Shuffle
68. "Foxy" Double
71. About Face
72. The "Plastrick" Bag
74. Quite A Mouthful
75. "Clippity-Slip"
77. "Sup-Rising" Card

    Section Three: Show-Cards

81. The Persistent Bunny
83. Almost, Complete Coverage
83. The "Same To You" Card Trick
85. "Mouseket-Ear" Magic
87. Foxy "Cardenballoon"
89. Before Your Eyes

    Section Four: The "Sly-Cology" Of Mentalism

93. A Switch On Dave Hoy's Switch
95. "Blotch-Splotch"
97. Psuedo Psychomitrix
98. Musimentalism
100. Lipology
101. The Shifting...

Included in the introduction are 7 hilarious gag lines/jokes that you can use in any of your routines.

Included effects:

IMPROMPTU MENTAL EPIC - Do not take this effect lightly. It is a powerful, unnerving, ESP effect that is impromptu and uses only your business cards or just three playing cards. It is very easy to do and absolutely mind-boggling!

TORN & RESTORED STRAW WRAPPER - Michael Skinner's version of a Nate Leipzig routine...but with straw wrappers. This routine (with part of Leipzig's patter)...

This is a very well done PDF. Here is what Michael writes about his ebook:

This ebook offers unparalleled instruction by allowing text, photographs, and video clips to do what they do best and can be printed out to produce a spectacular 8.5 x 11, 179-page book. Each routine is described in complete detail in Michael Close’s clear, easy-to-read style. It’s almost like having private lessons with Michael Close. BONUS: Three Essays on Magic Theory and Michael’s Presentation & Handling of: Dean Dill’s Box & Gary Plants Magnetized Cards.

The 179 pages of Closely Guarded Secrets contain...

Make clouds vanish, appear and more. With a preface by Paolo Cavalli and a foreword by Enrique Enriquez.

Two of the world's foremost 'Cloudbusters' reveal their inner secrets of cloud magic!

In this ebook the authors strip away the veil of secrecy, revealing cloud secrets only known to a select few. Learn to make clouds vanish and appear. Sculpture them into images of selected playing cards, thought of numbers, ESP symbols, faces, and even animals.

Nothing is held back. Apparently change the weather by delaying rain or snow or even by making it warmer. Believe it or not you can do a...

The English magazine [lc=3255 Club 71 ran from 1970 to 2007 and was produced by Geoff Maltby the owner of Repro Magic. For most of the time Walt Lees was the editor. Contributors include: Max Maven, Peter Duffie, Patrick Page, Al Smith, Angelo Carbone, Ian Rowland, Werner Miller, Peter Kane, Paul Hallas, Stephen Tucker, Ali Bongo and many more. The subjects discussed span everything from mentalism and cards, to magic for children and close-up.

CONTENTS:

• AROUND THE WORLD (Peter Underwood): A great mental effect. Two cards are selected by a cut of the deck done by a spectator. The two values added and an Atlas opened at that page to select a country. You have predicted that country. ...

[Note that this volume has actually only 9 effects.]

CONTENTS:

• FINGERED 2 (Simon Lovell): A unique revelation of a selected card with a transposition.
• IT'S ME! (Solyl Kundu): Three cards show a picture of a magic wand. All three cards change into mirrors. Finally, you have a card with a mirror, a card with a wand and the third card with your picture (or your business card)
• COIN IN BALLOON (Angelo Carbone): A coin is thrown towards a balloon and magically appears inside the balloon that can be examined.
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF? (Melvin LeHair): An easy "Find The Lady" routine with a Queen and four Aces.
• CHEEKY RING (Ali Cardabra): A nice routine in three phases...

• ... alter ego of Max Maven
• Simon Sayes - Simon Lovell with a nifty card miracle especially for flummoxing magicos!
• News & Reviews. Geoff with the latest update on the forthcoming QE2 Magic Convention/Cruise
• The Back Window and Al Smith ponders on the subject of working at 'any price'
• Aeroplane cards - clever magic from our resident genial genius Barrie Richardson
• Keith's Column. First in a new series from Pro Keith Fields. This issue he turns the heat on hecklers.

• GRAHAM S. CLARKE with Will '0 The Wisp - a cute bar trick
• SUBSCRIPTION INFO - How to make certain you don't...

• ... Lovell
• THE MARK OF SATAN. Mental Magic from the prolific Steve Jones
• SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION, together with details and current rates
• ETHICS: Dr Rodney King with a controversial view on a controversial topic
• THE SEVEN SAMURAI: Kennedy Smith with a different and entertaining effect with Jumbo cards
• HOW TO DOUBLE YOUR BOOKINGS in one easy lesson. A clever approach by Brian Lead

• News and Reviews in and around the studio with Geoff MaHby
• The Mr Men Meet the Magician by Club 71 regular Steve Jones
• Untouched Card at Any Number. Another reputation making miracle from Barrie...

• ... with Geoff
• Seance by Arun Bonerjee
• first of an important new series by Ian Adair
• Little Jackpot coins another stunning effect from our resident stunner, Barrie Richardson
• film Case Conjuring with Ali Cardabra
• Colours in Flight by Solyl Kunda
• Basic Card Technique continues with more on key cards
• Al Smith muses through the rear window
• Peter Blanchard does something simple
• Simon Lovell tells how to do it right
• 1997 Competition results
• Farof a kind by Phil Goldstein
• Collector's thoughts and musings
• Steve Jones ends all up
• Soumya Deb offers Predictacolour
• More on locus Pocus from...

• ... Lay news
• Ian Keable considers Llandudno and the competition
• Eddie Dawes rounds up with Collectors' Corner

• News and Views around the studio
• Ian Adair is Over the Moon with a special routine for the children's entertainer
• Ian Keable v Guy Hollingworth
• Peter Duffie Dreamt of cards
• Basic Card Technique - This time Palming from a tabled deck
• Arun Bonerjee with another mental effect called Row ESP
• Al Smith listens to the rythm of the falling rain - pitter patter
• Ali Cardabra with a new for old ring in bottle
• Reading Matter if you really want to be a children's entertainer ...

• ... Chopped Prices
• Walt Lees with a contribution of his own as he considers Conventional Etiquette

• News and Reviews around the Studio
• Ian Adair presents Rabbit Bio Card - business for children's entertainers
• Ron Escort says Hippo Birdie To You!
• Peter Duffie with Key Largo - Cards A Gogol
• Malcolm Malan's rubber based Y2K Rabbit Project
• Barrie Richardson with The Touch of Power
• The Back Window - Al Smith - The leader of the deck!
• Letters. Your chance to have your say on all things magical
• Eddie Dawes is still collecting his thoughts
• Ian Keable's Top Ten List of British...

• ... notes and changes a pickpocket into a cutpurse
• Peter Kane with the magic of the movies
• Letters, readers' updates and comments
• The London Magic Circle Awards
• Billy McComb with his own special Invisible deck routine and presentation
• Malcolm Yaffe considers misinformation
• Werner Miller asks the cards with a variation on a Phil Goldstein theme
• Peter Duffie with a Halloween location you can use at any time of the year
• Henrique is engagingly exaggerating
• News of the competition with prizes
• Somya Deb has a reversed card prediction that uses an old deck you might have at the back of a cupboard ...

• ... us what we missed in the other magical press
• Jim Breedon shows how Fred Lowes chain goes
• Tuck in to more marvellous Tucker miracles
• Pete Kane with a ropy card trick
• Can Ian Adair dare chance a star prize
• Ali Cardabra can cut a balloon - and then restore the rest
• Peter Duffie faces up to the cards
• Brickbats, bouquets and suggestions
• Lee Thompson is interviewed by Alex Kocan
• Barrie Richardson demonstrates Prof. Willmarth's eye-popper
• Magical event diary and society news
• Henrique has a problem when a lady immigration officer gets a bit personal
• Alan Ward has a problem when five over...

• ... Esq with a cunning box of swans, sans signets
• Vic Brindel sees clearly now and socks it to them
• Stephen Tucker drops a jumbo bomb
• Les & Martin Peirce find a Queen in their small change
• Werner Miller is also Queenly on the subject of Royal ties
• Peter Duffie - Scots pentathelete with a deck of cards
• Barrie Richardson with the final solution for the recalcitrant billet refolder
• Unclassified ads to buy, sell or swop
• Arun Bonerjee - A mystical wordsmith if ever there was
• Alan Ward figures it out digitally
• Walt Lees spent the month in front of the box
• John Rhodes spent the month reading...

This clever mathematical principle allows you to find a thought item among any number of items, even though you do not know the initial order. You don't even need to know what they are. You see nothing. It is entirely hands off and improvised, and can even be done over the phone. It works with any number of flat objects (cards, index or business cards, coasters, etc.) or usual objects (key, coin, lighter, pen, etc.).

Two practical examples are provided, but it is so easy that you'll be able to improvise your own mentalism effects with borrowed objects or cards, or with your own business...