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A lovely story trick involving two queens, four kings and two hotel rooms. Both the faces and the numbers of cards in two piles magically change.

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This is an effect by Francis Carlyle. It is an unusual revelation of a peeked at card. The Ace of Spades, also known among gamblers as 'the bullet', is used to shoot out the spectator's card.

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This is number two of the Paul Diamond "Gems of Magic Book" series.

Roger Klause writes in his foreword:

This video teaches you how to return a card from Tenkai palm back onto the deck during the display of a fan.

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This is another very visual card change onto the table.

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A slip cut allows you to cut the card second from top to the top. Here Allan teaches a triple slip cut for the table.

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A move developed by Ed Marlo where you steal the top card while squaring up a deck that is resting on the table. This can also be used as a color change if the deck is face up on the table. And Allan also let's you in on Eddies 'Nickle Color Change' where a nickle is placed on the face up deck. Nevertheless the card changes instantly leaving the nickle on the deck. This one is guaranteed to fool magicians.

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To do the tabled faro perfectly - a 26/26 weave - is very hard to achieve consistently. However, often you only need to faro a portion of the deck and not the entire deck. A partial tabled faro is relatively easy to learn.

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This is a nicely flowing no frills tabled false cut.

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This is an idea by Steve Freeman to switch out one card that is sandwiched between two other cards.

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Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

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Stud means that the cards are turned face-up during dealing. Allan teaches here a strike stud second deal.

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Allan teaches a nice and smooth one-handed stud bottom deal that can also be used as force.

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This is a table full deck false riffle shuffle that comes from the gambling world. It is explained in Expert Card Technique by Hugard and Braue.

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This move is done on the table. Allan teaches two variations, one to control the cards to the top and the other to control them to the bottom.

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The strike second is the most basic and also the easiest of the second deal variations.

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The center deal is a tough move. This strike center deal is probably one of the easier ways to achieve a center deal. Using this deal Allan teaches a center deal demonstration where you only need to deal one card from the center and the rest comes from the top - making it a lot easier to perform.

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The strike bottom deal is less versatile and needs a lot of practice to get right. It can be performed from an Erdnase grip or a standard mechanics grip.

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An idea by Mel Stover, this false cut is an optical illusion.

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Spectator chooses a card, remembers it, and the card is lost in the deck. Then the performer places cards one by one on the table until the spectator says: "Stop!". Magically the spectator has stopped exactly at his chosen card.

This version of the Stop trick uses the Benzais Cop to achieve the effect.

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This is a neat little ace revelation using three bottom deals. Performer deals cards to the table until spectator says: "Stop." Another packet is dealt until spectator says: "Stop." This is done for another two times until a total of four packets are on the table. The bottom most card of all those four packets is an ace.

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One of the great principles in faro shuffling is the stay stack principle. Allan describes what the stay stack is, how it should be shuffled, and how to get into a stay from new deck order.

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The faro shuffle allows for a very easy way to stack cards.

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Get your break on a square-up action.

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