Allan Ackerman products: page 2

This is a glimpse Johnny Thompson liked to do. It is a very deceptive glimpse, executed at an off-beat moment and literally undetectable.

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The bluff pass is a very nice way to get a selected card to second from top when it looks like that you are burrying the card in the center of the deck. Allan also tips a bluff Kelly replacement - something to fool your magic friends.

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This is something Ed Marlo liked to do, a side steal with a bluff action.

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A block transfer is to move one or several cards from one half of the deck to the other half, leaving everything else unchanged. The transfer can happen on the top or on the bottom. This is a riffle shuffle technique very useful for riffle stacking.

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The performer fans a deck of cards which are all blank. Spectator merely thinks of a card. Performer removes the thought of card, which is naturally again a blank card. Magically the blank card turns into the thought of card and as a climax the whole blank deck turns into a regular deck.

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This is a wonderfully versatile count by Elmer Biddle. It is next to the Elmsley Count probably the most important count available today due to its versatility and deceptiveness.

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You will learn the classic Allerton Move to switch out one card. Later Wesley James significantly improved on the basic idea and Allan Ackerman demonstrates and teaches these variations.

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This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple-top palm.

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It appears as you are kicking out cards from the center of the deck, when they in fact come from the top. A very visual and useful deception.

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The performer hands 6 cards to a spectator who arranges the cards in red-black alternating order. The performer openly counts those six cards to the table. Once the cards are ribbon spread on the table the colors have, like oil and water, separated.

This is a very clean sequence that can be added to most oil & water routines or performed stand-alone. The oil & water effect is an Ed Marlo creation. This version uses the Benzais cop to achieve the effect.

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This is a move to Tenkai palm a card or several cards while dealing. A beautiful and practically undetectable move.

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This is a wonderfully visual color change by Steve Beam - first published in Trapdoor.

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A neat way to have the back card rise and rotate out of the deck.

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This technique allows you to place a selected card inbetween two other cards with one faro shuffle. For example, two face up kings catch a face down selection between them. You will need to know the Incomplete Faro Control to successfully perform this move.

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This is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.

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The ATFUS or Any Time Face-Up Switch was one of Marlo's favorite moves. Literally, hundreds of routines have been created that use the ATFUS. It allows you to switch out one or several cards during a fair face-up display action.

runtime: 6min 33s

The roles are reversed. The performer selects a card and the spectator finds the card by selecting a number, dealing to the number and indeed finding the selected card there.

You will need to know the Pip Bottom Deal to perform this effect.

runtime: 3min 28s

The faro shuffle allows you to place a certain card at a certain location. You will learn how to mix in-faros with out-faros in the right way to achieve this effect.

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While you perform a double cut you palm off the bottom cards. This move was developed by Art Altman.

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Once you hold a break, this technique allows you to peek the card while you square up the deck.

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Sleights & Moves:

• ATFUS
• Fine Points of ATFUS
• Fu-Fu Switch
• Vernon's ATFUS
• Hugard/Braue Addition
• Secret Subtraction
• Vernon Add-On
• 1-2-3-4 Switch
• Quick Three-Way
• D'Amico Multiple Spread
• The Drop Switch
• The Jennings' Add-On
• Vernon Shuffle Reverse
• Cervon's Cut Reverse
• Braue Reversal 1
• Braue Reversal 2
• Ackerman's Shuffle Reverse
• Propelled Lapping
• Pemper Deck Switch
• In-the-Pocket Switch
• Bert Allerton Move
• On the Up & Up
• The Ultra Move
• The Curry Change
• Tilt & Variations
• One-Handed Tilt
• Schwarzman's Tilt Subtlety
• The Classic Force
• The Hofzinser Force

• Variant's Variant
• The Devilish Miracle
• Easy-Off Pips
• Dunbury...

Sleights & Moves:

• The Elmsley Count
• Counting Terminology
• The X-Y-Z Count
• Underground Elmsley Count
• The OPEC Count
• The Jordan Count
• 3-4-3 Count
• 3-5-4 Count
• 2-X-2 Count
• 2-4-4 Count
• The Olram Subtlety
• The OPOS Count
• The Gemini Count
• Rhythm Count (Jennings)
• Rhythm Count (Ackerman)
• Rhythm Count (Carpenter)
• The Jiminy Cricket Count
• The Flushtration Count
• The Rumba Count
• Elmsley Flushtration Count
• Ireland's False Count
• Carlyle's False Count
• Showing Four Aces as Five
• The Biddle Count
• The Veeser Concept
• Vanishing Cards via the Biddle
• Here's Hockley
• The Biddle as a Force
• Minch's Biddle Force
• Switch-Out...

Sleights & Moves:

• In-The-Hands Faro Technique
• Cutting At 26
• Adjusting the Cut
• In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
• Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
• Re-Squaring the Packets
• In Case of a Miss
• Rock & Re-Weave
• The Faro Shuffle as a Real Shuffle
• Further Fine Faro Points
• The Fourth Finger Table
• Key Cards
• The Tabled Faro
• The Faro Check
• Stacking with the Faro Shuffle
• Combining Faro & Riffle
• The Ten-Card Poker Stack
• The Stay Stack
• Incomplete Faro Control
• Incomplete Faro with a Jog
• Automatic Placement Control
• Si Stebbins
• Any Card at Any Number
• Faro Mental Displacement
• Getting Packets the Same Size ...

Sleights & Moves:

• G.W. Hunter False Shuffle
• Erdnase False Shuffle
• Strip-Out False Shuffle
• Up The Ladder
• Pull-Through with a Cut
• The Zarrow Shuffle
• The Shank Shuffle
• Slip Shod
• Vernon's Two-Shuffle Concept
• The Sideways Shank Shuffle
• Controlling the Top Stock
• Controlling the Bottom Stock
• Ireland's Red/Black Shuffle
• Downs' Red/Black Shuffle
• Double Undercut to Top
• Double Undercut to Bottom
• Top Block Transfer
• Bottom Block Transfer
• Tabled Fake Cut
• Stover Fake Cut
• Ose Fake Cut
• Triple Fake Cut
• Fake Double Swing Cut
• Fake Triple Swing Cut
• Tabled Slip Cut
• Off-The-Bottom Strip Fake Cut
• Klause Overhand False Shuffle ...