Allan Ackerman products: page 4

These double lifts start out essentially like a push off second deal, but have an added square up motion to display two perfectly aligned cards. Allan teaches two push off varieties.

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This push off one-handed bottom deal achieves a perfect illusion.

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With a bit of neck-tieing the deck you can turn a push off second deal into a very effective card change.

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Allan teaches the basic push off second deal. Very similar push off techniques are also used for double lifts or to get a break beneath the top two cards.

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This is a variation of the classic push off second deal where the thumb works from the top edge of the package rather than the long side edge of the deck.

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Allan applies the Double Deal to a quick 3-way sequence popular in color monte routines.

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This move displays one card three times such that it looks like you have three identical cards. It uses the Christ-Annemann alignment move.

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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 is an Ace.

There are no difficult moves in this routine, but it is a longer routine with several steps to remember.

runtime: 8min 18s

You will encounter the term 'Reverse Faro' quite frequently in card literature. In this little video Allan will explain and demonstrate what is meant by it.

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Here Allan Ackerman combines Dai Vernon's Optical Move with Larry Jennings' Rhythm Count to achieve an even more visual deceptive rhythm count variety.

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This is a Jack Carpenter variation of Larry Jennings' Rhythm Count.

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This is a 2-4-4 count and it can be used as replacement wherever a Gemini Count is needed. It is a beautifully flowing and deceptive count. By some accounts the best card count developed to this date.

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The purpose of the riffle shuffle stack is to place special cards, say the aces, at special locations in the deck so that during a dealing action those aces end up in a predetermined pile, usually the magicians hand.

For example, if you are dealing a five hand pocker game and you start out with the aces on top, riffle shuffle stacking allows you to place aces at position 5, 10, 15 and 20 from the top. In this video Allan teaches you how to stack two aces.

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This is a Roy Walton's effect where Allan has slightly changed the method. A spectator selected card ends up between the two red kings.

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This technique allows a card to jump right out of the deck.

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The rumba count is designed to apparently show all cards from the front and back, but in reality one hides the backs of all cards but one.

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Howie Schwarzman further improved Marlo's Throw Double into a remarkable long toss that sends a double slithering over the table.

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While scooping up a deck from the table replace palmed cards on the top. Allan gives an important tip how to make this look even better.

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Under the disguise of counting a few cards off the top of the deck you can perform a second deal and displace cards.

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Another way to switch out cards by Hartman.

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This is a false shuffle by Frank Shank and similar to the Zarrow Shuffle but not quite as deceptive.

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A nice little illusion showing four aces as five.

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You will learn how to prepare the Si Stebbins stack with two faro shuffles.

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This is a well thought out Dai Vernon version of the Glide. Every finger position and movement has its reason. The Glide is not necessarily the most deceptive move, but it is easy to do. This version is very deceptive. As is so often the case, Vernon elevates a simple move to a masterpiece of deception.

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