Magic & Conjuring: page 49

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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Let a spectator peek a card from the deck and catch the break with your little finger. This is a very deceptive method and avoids the over-used line "pick a card".

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Holding a little finger break is probably the most basic and important technique to master in card magic. Allan teaches you how to make this break invisible.

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Allan applies the Double Deal to a quick 3-way sequence popular in color monte routines.

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The double deal is to secretly deal the bottom card together with the top card. Here Allan combines the dealing action with turning the card(s) face up on the deck revealing the bottom card.

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This is a well thought out Dai Vernon version of the Glide. Every finger position and movement has its reason. The Glide is not necessarily the most deceptive move, but it is easy to do. This version is very deceptive. As is so often the case, Vernon elevates a simple move to a masterpiece of deception.

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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 heirophant type card change using the Push Off Center Deal.

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

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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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The push-off-center deal is quite a bit harder to do than the strike-center deal, but it is also more versatile. Allan executes it flawlessly.

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

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

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Use the Minus One Bottom Deal as a fake center deal. (You will need the description of the Minus One Bottom Deal to perform this move.)

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'Minus one' means that you do not deal the bottom card but the second from the bottom - sort of a second but dealt from the bottom. This is an Allan Ackerman invention and uses a push off bottom technique.

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

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This is another Ed Marlo creation - a stud bottom 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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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 push off one-handed bottom deal achieves a perfect illusion.

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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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Spectator touches any card. The card is outjogged. In a brush-off action, the outjogged card is switched with the bottom card in the deck.

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