Moves

Here is the clip from The Sting where the switch is executed.

1st edition 2019, PDF 4 pages, video 17s.

A false cut that uses the action of burning a card as misdirection. Particularly useful for cheating at BlackJack.

Chuck Smith was recorded doing this cut. (A letter from Chuck Smith to Brick Tilley is reproduced in the PDF.) He used it to beat players during the years of WWII. The sequence of actions is the following. You first openly cut the cards and complete the cut. Then you take the top card, turn it face up and place it as the bottom card. During the action of burning the top card you undo the cut. The demo video will prove how honest and fair this looks.

You will receive a PDF...

Techniques to do a natural relaxed looking Elmsley and Jordan count using Jumbo Cards.

Included is a script and handling for a trick that is especially useful for MC work. A video showing how the counts look is also included (see your digital shelf).

1st edition 2019, PDF 22 pages, video length 38 s.

A card detective revelations of gambler's secrets.

MacDougall, who refers to himself as magician and card detective, tells of years of tracking down crooks, phony devices, and manipulations in every sort of gambling field. He shares anecdotes of various experiences, and explains several cardshark methods and moves including:

• Culling and Palming
• The Slip Cut
• Bottom Dealing
• Second Dealing and Sort Edge Cards
• The Haymaker Shuffle
• The False Riffle
• The Crimp
• Trick Stacking And A Misdeal
• The Interlacing Riffle

1st edition 1939, 167 pages; PDF 91 pages.

A training program and process to learn how to successfully palm cards.

Three palms taught including video instructions:

• Pivot Palm
• Erdnase Palm
• Swivel Fan Palm

1st edition 2019, PDF 53 pages, video length 2:20

Wesley James has been seriously analyzing, studying, and improving the Pass for well over 50 years. In this volume his efforts are fully revealed for the first time.

When other magicians, even experts, have witnessed Wesley perform many of his treatments of the Pass, they've been incredulous. They simply can't believe the Pass, any Pass, can be as invisible as they are in Wesley's hands. Now, in this large volume, you can learn these invisible, indetectable Passes, as well as the most deceptive Shifts that can be performed at the card table, including the legendary "Ping Pong Shift."

You'll...

From the introduction by B. W. McCarron, "T-Formation (TF) is a monograph of card sleights that are not at all difficult for the average performer; yet they allow a nice range of performance possibilities. Forces, controls, peeks and even the versatile double lift are all given the 'Thompson treatment.' "

T-Formation teaches the average magician or mentalist an assortment of maneuvers with cards that are easy to execute but full of deceptiveness. In the author's words, T-Formation "enables the performer, with a minimum of effort, to perform...

This is the third book in the Wesley James "Technique Mastery" series, which currently includes A Call to Palms, Neo-Shufflogica and, now, It's Your Deal. Planned future volumes include I'll Pass and Cooler than Ever.

If you think you know all about False Dealing, you're almost certainly mistaken; Bottoms, Seconds and Middles just scratch the surface. No one volume could be fully comprehensive...

"... The PAT Switch will have you rethinking many of the tricks you know and probably have in your repertoire, as well as suggesting new ideas." - Matt Field

"The sleight ... is to my knowledge new and is certainly a lovely maneuver promising wide applicability. If anything can shine through the welter of material being published today, I should think this sleight deserves to. It is quite simply, very, very good ... your applications ... [are] ... excellent in their construction." - Stephen Minch

"... [Turnantula] ... is quite excellent and I have never seen anything like it before." - Roy Walton

"The venomous bite of the Turnantula caused me to see outstanding close-up card magic that may not have been possible otherwise. Buy it now before an antidote is discovered and spoils...

• The Faro Shuffle
• - The First Technique
• Faro Aids
• - 26th Card Faro Check
• - The 4th Finger Table
• Faro Riffle Shuffle
• - Variations In Technique On The Faro Riffle Shuffle
• - In The Hands
• The Butt Faro
• Partial Faro Check ...

There has not been a complete work on Shuffle technique since the early 1970's, yet Shuffle techniques have continued to advance. In fact, there has been a significant shift in the paradigm of those at the forefront of Shuffle techniques. Further, "In-the-Hands" techniques have become increasingly common, even in the magic fraternity, as they have been in the cheating community for many years. Now, for the first time, one of the most recognized experts on the subject has released the real work, including many of his own developments, for...

6 colourful colour card changes like never before.

Vibgyor is a colorful journey created and cherished from the mind of Aarsh Shah that contains color changes that requires nothing but your hand and deck of playing cards. Piklumagic brings this journey that includes six colorful destinations which are creative an very visual and can be performed anywhere and anytime.

• Voigre
• Inlet
• Blurple
• Grellow
• Yelue
• Bonus (or "T3")

1st edition 2017, length 17 min

For years the pattern has been the same. A newcomer to magic invariably turns first to cards as a vehicle for mystification. He spends hours upon hours mastering difficult sleights and then, to his dismay, learns of the existence of easier and more effective maneuvers hidden away in magical literature - moves about which he could have no knowledge, but which would have made his previous struggles unnecessary, or, at least, eased them. Gradually he discards the results of many arduous hours of practice and substitutes the newly discovered and simplified versions until,...

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

• Rear Flat Palm
• Rear Angle Palm
• Thumb Clip Palm
• Latest Thumb Clip Palm
• Changing Palm Positions
• Flat Card Pickup
• Getting into the Palm Positions
• Methods of Unloading the X Card after the Switch: The Flexible Unload
• The Card Switch Transfer
• An Impressive Sequence
• A Simpler Sequence
• A Third Sequence
• First Switch
• Variations of the First Switch
• Marlo's Card Switch
• Additional Method for Getting into Basic Position of Rear Flat Palm required for the Marlo Card Swtich
• Methods of Disclosure
  • The Delayed Disclosure
  • The Indirect Disclosure ...

• Starting Out
• Learning the Timing
• The Standard Advice
• No Parrots
• No Celebrations
• Can the Classic Force Be 100%?
• Eliminating the Fear
• The Basic Mechanics of the Stanley Collins Force
• Without a Table
• Meshing the Mechanics with Words and Movements
• The Classic Force Is Not a Trick
• Applications for the Stanley Collins Force
  • Bill Simon's Business Card Prophecy Move
  • The Two Pile Force
• Practical...

The false cut triggering this manuscript is Jay Ose's False Cut that was auspiciously introduced to magicians by Harry Lorayne. This false cut eventually made its way into the repertoires of card specialists, but early on it was primarily meant to be easily and quickly performed after false shuffling. It was to the point, expressing a pleasing, sixbeat...

• Take versus Strike Seconds
• One Hand and Extended Push-Off Seconds
• Easy and No Touch Theory Seconds
• Natural Second
• On the Inward Take
• Multiple Minus Bottom
• Marlo on the Center Deal
• Inner Corner Take Bottom
• On the Bottom Deal Count
• Havana Deals
• Inward and Outward Deals
• Straddle...

This e-book version contains all thirty six Basic Training columns, plus two extra lessons...