Allan Ackerman products: page 2

This is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.

runtime: 49s

This technique allows you to place a selected card inbetween two other cards with one faro shuffle. For example, two face up kings catch a face down selection between them. You will need to know the Incomplete Faro Control to successfully perform this move.

runtime: 1min 30s

A neat way to have the back card rise and rotate out of the deck.

runtime: 50s

This is a wonderfully visual color change by Steve Beam - first published in Trapdoor.

runtime: 1min 2s

This is a move to Tenkai palm a card or several cards while dealing. A beautiful and practically undetectable move.

runtime: 1min 30s

The performer hands 6 cards to a spectator who arranges the cards in red-black alternating order. The performer openly counts those six cards to the table. Once the cards are ribbon spread on the table the colors have, like oil and water, separated.

This is a very clean sequence that can be added to most oil & water routines or performed stand alone. The oil & water effect is an Ed Marlo creation. This version uses the Benzais cop to achieve the effect.

runtime: 1min 28s

It appears as you are kicking out cards from the center of the deck, when they in fact come from the top. A very visual and useful deception.

runtime: 1min 23s

This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple top palm.

runtime: 46s

You will learn the classic Allerton Move to switch out one card. Later Wesley James significantly improved on the basic idea and Allan Ackerman demonstrates and teaches these variations.

runtime: 3min 31s

This is a wonderfully versatile count by Elmer Biddle. It is next to the Elmsley Count probably the most important count available today due to its versatility and deceptivness.

runtime: 2min 34s

The performer fans a deck of cards which are all blank. Spectator merely thinks of a card. Performer removes the thought of card, which is naturally again a blank card. Magically the blank card turns into the thought of card and as a climax the whole blank deck turns into a regular deck.

runtime: 3min 31s

A block transfer is to move one or several cards from one half of the deck to the other half, leaving everything else unchanged. The transfer can happen on the top or on the bottom. This is a riffle shuffle technique very useful for riffle stacking.

runtime: 4min 35s

This is something Ed Marlo liked to do, a side steal with a bluff action.

runtime: 48s

The bluff pass is a very nice way to get a selected card to second from top when it looks like that you are burrying the card in the center of the deck. Allan also tips a bluff Kelly replacement - something to fool your magic friends.

runtime: 1min 42s

This is a glimpse Johnny Thompson liked to do. It is a very deceptive glimpse, executed at an off beat moment and literally undetectable.

runtime: 1min 5s

Use the same action as with the Push Off One-Handed Bottom Deal to produce the illusion of a changing card.

runtime: 37s

The bottom deal can be used to position certain cards at certain locations during a counting procedure.

runtime: 48s

The bottom deal, one of the most versatile moves in card magic, can be used for a wonderfully deceptive force.

runtime: 1min 27s

This is essentially a Heirophant Change but using a bottom deal instead of a second deal.

runtime: 59s

Spectator touches any card. The card is outjogged. In a brush off action the outjogged card is switched with the bottom card in the deck.

runtime: 1min 3s

You will learn two basic card reversals by Fred Braue.

runtime: 2min 30s

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.

runtime: 9min 22s

The 'card to wallet' effect is one of those all time classic magic effects. It is probably the best application for palming. A spectator freely selects a card, signs it, shuffles the pack, and magically the chosen and signed card ends up in a zippered compartment in your wallet.

runtime: 2min 49s

This is a routine by Carmen D'Amico. The effect is exactly what the title says. The performer passes a freely selected and ungimmicked card three times right through the table.

runtime: 3min 4s