Allan Ackerman products: page 7

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.

runtime: 49s

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.

runtim: 1min 34s

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.

runtime: 54s

Use a Kick Count to crimp a peeked at card.

runtime: 53s

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

runtime: 59s

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

length 1min 14s

This is a fancy multi-packet false cut.

runtime: 2min 44s

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

runtime: 1min 8s

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

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...

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.

runtime: 1min 54s

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

runtime: 42s

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

runtime: 2min 13s

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.

runtime: 1min 53s

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.

runtime: 53s

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

runtime: 1min 1s

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.

runtime: 1min 50s

This employs the Biddle move to switch out a packet of cards while showing them one at a time.

runtime: 1 min 49 s

By simply dropping and turning a deck, you change the face card twice.

runtime: 2min 16s

The deck is shuffled. Spectator cuts off a small packet and sets it aside. The performer selects one card from the remaining cards. It turns out that this is the mate card to the card on the bottom of the spectator cut packet. The same procedure is repeated and again the performer is able to pick the mate card. In ever more impossible ways the spectator selects cards which turn out to be located next to their mates.

This routine was first published in Faro Control Miracles. It uses the stay stack principle.

runtime: 16min 52s...

A card is chosen and signed and lost in the deck. The card travels repeatedly to the performers pocket in ever cleaner and more unbelievable fashion.

runtime: 4min 12s

A deck is riffle shuffled. Spectator cuts off a portion and performer can tell by the weight of the packet how many cards were cut. Performer quickly glances through the deck. Spectator calls out a number and performer knows immediately the card at that position in the deck. Then a poker hand is dealt with the magician dealing himself a straight flush. And the routine ends with a game of bridge where the performer receives all 13 spades, the best hand you can have in a game of bridge.

This is a routine Ed Marlo published in the 1940s in his book Spades - that is where the name of the routine comes...

Here you learn how to replace a card you hold out in Tenkai palm on the top of the deck.

runtime: 49s

This technique is an application of the Vernon Push Off and allows you to table a double.

runtime: 36s