Allan Ackerman products: page 4

While you turn over a deck of cards you return palmed cards back to the deck.

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Here you learn how to replace a card you hold out in Tenkai palm on the top of the deck.

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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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While scooping up a deck from the table replace palmed cards on the top. Allan gives an important tip how to make this look even better.

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Replace cards from Tenkai palm back on a partial deck while pushing it toward the spectator.

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This is a variation of the classic push off second deal where the thumb works from the top edge of the package rather than the long side edge of the deck.

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With a bit of neck-tieing the deck you can turn a push off second deal into a very effective card change.

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Under the disguise of counting a few cards off the top of the deck you can perform a second deal and displace cards.

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The Movie Second Deal is really more a flourish than a second deal. It is a one-handed second where you pull out the second card and place it on top with the thumb.

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Use the same action as with the Push Off One-Handed Bottom Deal to produce the illusion of a changing card.

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This is essentially a Heirophant Change but using a bottom deal instead of a second deal.

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The bottom deal can be used to position certain cards at certain locations during a counting procedure.

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

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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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This is a nice idea how to practice your false deals.

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Once you have a break you want to handle and display the deck such that it appears to be impossible to hold a break. Here is one sequence of bends and riffles developed by Ed Marlo and published in his Card Control Series from the 1950s.

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This is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break.

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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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Use a Kick Count to crimp a peeked at card.

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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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A jogged card can be seen by a spectator if the pack is placed on the table. Allan teaches you how to use a dribble to disguise the jog, but at the same time allows you to maintain the jogged card.

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Use a Hofzinser Card Control type action to control a card to the top.

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This is a bluff pass to bring a selected card to the top while it appears to the audience that you have burried the card in the middle of the deck.

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