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Double dealing means dealing the top and bottom card at the same time. This variaiton is done with one hand.

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It is what the title says, an overhand shuffle executed in one hand.

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OPEC stands for Out of Position Elmsley Count - a variation by Ed Marlo.

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The double deal is taking the top and bottom card at the same time. The open double deal is an idea by Marlo which eliminates the card alignment issue.

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OPOS stands for Out of Position Olram Subtlety. It is a 3-4-4 count.

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This is Jack Merlin's Order trick from And a Pack of Cards. The performer and spectator each give the deck a legitimate riffle shuffle. Then all the Spades are removed from the deck, shown in a ribbon spread, counted to be 13, and magically end up in order from ace to king.

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This triple tabled false cut is a thing of simplistic beauty, developed by Jay Ose. Calling this a move is an overstatement.

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This is a basic card control - easy to do, but also easy to mess up. It allows you to control the top half of the deck. Allan teaches several fine points and variations, including the slip shuffle where the bottom card is maintained during an overhand shuffle.

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Here you control several cards, say the four aces, during an overhand shuffle. It also allows you to get a break under the cards you control. This can be exploited to top palm these cards. This means you have not just controlled several cards, but also removed them from the deck.

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Learn how to move from one palm to another, for example, how does one go from a magician's palm to a gambler's flat palm.

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Frank Pemper developed this wonderful deck switch. Being able to switch out a complete deck opens up endless possibilities.

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This is a great and visual revelation of a reversed card.

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The pinky count is a versatile 'get ready' for a double or multiple lift, or whenever you need to get a break.

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Allan Ackerman invented this Put-In-Place (or PIP) bottom deal where the spectator is left with a very clean visual which seems to rule out a bottom deal.

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Allan's PIP or Put-In-Place technique is here applied to a push off center deal.

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Face-up and face-down cards are shuffled together and then dealt for a five handed game of poker. Some cards will be face-up and some will be face-down. However, the performer is able to deal himself mostly face-down cards whereas everybody else receives all face-up cards. The four face-down cards the magician received turn out to be the four aces. On top of it the backs of these four aces have a different color than the rest of the cards.

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This is a flashy double lift where the double card makes a somersault.

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The pressure fan is harder to learn than the Thumb Fan, but it also works with less than stellar cards. And the reverse pressure fan allows all kinds of cool effects, either to show a regular deck as having all blank faces or a deck with backs on the front and back sides of all cards.

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Performer repeatedly riffle shuffles the deck and still cuts to all four aces one at a time. This is an Ed Marlo routine.

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A very deceptive technique developed by Carmen D'Amico and Ed Marlo to switch out cards using a laping technique.

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The Pull Through False Shuffle is similar to the Strip Out False Shuffle. It is likewise a tabled full deck false shuffle.

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This particular variety of the pull through false shuffle is attributed to Ed Marlo and Dai Vernon.

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Allan describes how to avoid some of the most widely made errors with the bottom deal.

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The push off center deal is quite a bit harder to do than the strike center deal, but it is also more versatile. Allan executes it flawlessly.

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