Allan Ackerman products: page 9

Deck is shuffled and spectator cuts to a card. Performer removes one pip at a time from the card until it is entirely blank and as a final climax the card vanishes completely.

runtime: 3min 11s

The Elmsley count, developed by Alex Elmsley, is probably the easiest and most deceptive count there is. Allan calls it 'the monster move of the 20th century'. Countless of routines have been devised using this move. The most famous of all is Twisting the Aces by Dai Vernon.

runtime: 2min 43s

From John Bannon's book Smoke and Mirrors here is another 2-4-4 count - a variation of Larry Becker's Mirage Count.

runtime: 1min 39s

This is a tabled false riffle shuffle from The Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.

runtime: 1min 15s

This is a one-handed cut from Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.

runtime: 43s

The four aces are shown. When they are counted and they reduce to three, then two, one and finally none. A few cuts and the aces are found again in the deck.

runtime: 3min 34s

Use the Minus One Bottom Deal as a fake center deal. (You will need the description of the Minus One Bottom Deal to perform this move.)

runtime: 32s

Once you have mastered the Maintain Break With Fan technique you can use this idea to rather glimpse a card than keep the break.

runtime: 44s

A terrific control from a fan, created by Paul LePaul. You insert a selected card into a pressure fan. After closing the fan you have the selected card jogged, which allows you to take a break above or below.

runtime: 1min 16s

Four Aces that are spread throughout the deck are being 'culled' to the top by two faro shuffles.

runtime: 1min 18s

This is an amazingly easy but equally deceptive card revelation that can be done over and over to reveal a sequence of cards.

runtime: 1min 20s

You will learn how to quickly check if a card is missing from your deck, or if a certain card is exactly at the 26th position from the top.

runtime: 1min 38s

This is a neat technique to split a deck into four packets of exactly 13 cards each without counting.

runtime: 1min 18s

This is a 'princess' style mental effect. Spectator receives a few cards, remembers one of them and then these cards are shuffled back into the rest of the deck. The performer shows groups of cards to the spectator until a group is identified that holds the spectator thought of card. The card magically travels from one packet to another packet exactly to the position that a second spectator cut to.

runtime: 5min 21s

Allan teaches two fingertip controls, one by Charlie Miller from Expert Card Technique and the other by Ed Marlo from his Fingertip Control book.

runtime: 3min 36s

This is similar to a riffle force but in fingertip control position. You riffle while the spectator says stop.

runtime: 1min 8s

This is a 1-x-x count developed by Canadian magician Norman Houghton around 1955 and popularized by Brother John Hamman. You repeatedly show the same card while tabling the others one by one. Very easy to do, but perhaps not that deceptive. Allan shares a nice touch to make this count quite a bit more deceptive.

runtime: 1min 40s

This is a beautiful four card revelation, ideal for a four Ace routine, developed by Steve Freeman and Kosy.

runtime: 3min 2s

Fu-fu, or face-up face-up, is quite similar to the ATFUS and allows you to switch out a number of cards during a face-up display.

runtime: 2min 17s

Learn how to go from an overhand shuffle directly into the gambler's cop.

runtime: 1min 54s

This is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card that is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop.

Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.

runtime: 33s...

Learn how to hold out a gambler's cop and how to perform the add-on to get the cards back to the deck.

runtime: 22s

Allan teaches the basics of the gambler's cop.

runtime: 53s

This 2-4-4 count was developed by Brother John.

runtime: 1min 48s