Allan Ackerman products: page 9

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

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

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

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

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

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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 looks easy when Allan does it, but this is a pretty tough move to do.

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You will learn two types of one-handed fans as well as a one-handed close of a fan.

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You can achieve a terrific illusion with this one-handed center deal of the push off variety.

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This is a move that comes originally from gambling. It is hard to do well, but Allan gives you a number of valuable tips.

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This one-handed second deal has an interesting and very deceptive push-off because initially you push off only one card.

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This is a very deceptive and visual 3-4-4 count, hiding one card, developed by Ed Marlo. In case you wonder who or what 'Olram' is, that is Marlo spelled backwards.

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This is an easy tabled false cut leaving the bottom portion of your deck unchanged.

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If the Pinky Count is too difficult you can learn one of these two much easier methods to obtain a break under the top two cards.

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This is a routine Roger Klause and Allan Ackerman worked out in the 70s. The effect is the classic find the black lady. The classic effect is to throw three cards on the table face-down. Here the cards are simply displayed and counted to the table to achieve the same basic effect: the spectator never finds the black lady. The three card monte is expanded to a four card monte and the climax is that the cards change to the four aces.

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