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To do the tabled faro perfectly - a 26/26 weave - is very hard to achieve consistently. However, often you only need to faro a portion of the deck and not the entire deck. A partial tabled faro is relatively easy to learn.

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Allan describes in detail how to do an in-the-hand faro shuffle. He explains the difference between an in-faro and out-faro, how to correct if the weave is not perfect, as well as several other fine points and tips to make this difficult move easier to perform and practice.

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This is a wonderfully convincing because visual false overhand shuffle developed by Roger Klause.

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

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A slip cut allows you to cut the card second from top to the top. Here Allan teaches a triple slip cut for the table.

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Using a swing cut action, Allan teaches a double and a triple false cut to be used while seated at the table.

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This is a tabled triple false cut.

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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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An idea by Mel Stover, this false cut is an optical illusion.

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This is a nicely flowing no frills tabled false cut.

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The purpose of the riffle shuffle stack is to place special cards, say the aces, at special locations in the deck so that during a dealing action those aces end up in a predetermined pile, usually the magicians hand.

For example, if you are dealing a five hand pocker game and you start out with the aces on top, riffle shuffle stacking allows you to place aces at position 5, 10, 15 and 20 from the top. In this video Allan teaches you how to stack two aces.

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This is an idea by Mike Maxwell to slightly alter the Double Ace Production to be in the Jennings Revelation setup, from The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, after the first four cards are revealed.

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This production allows you to produce eight cards in total.

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This is a beautiful four card revelation, ideal for a four Ace routine, developed by Steve Freeman and Kosy.

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This is a pretty two card revelation after a riffle shuffle developed by Carmen D'Amico.

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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 double undercut is one of the basic utility moves of card magic. It allows you to move cards from the top to the bottom or vice versa. It can also be used as a card control. Allan teaches you both, the in-hand and on-the-table varieties.

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This is another Red Black Shuffle, but in contrast to Ireland's Red Black Shuffle this is a riffle shuffle technique.

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This is an overhand shuffle that allows you to retain cards in their respective half. Say you have all black cards in the top half of the deck and all red cards in the bottom half of the deck. This shuffle will keep all the red and black cards together. But it is not a complete false shuffle, because each half by itself is shuffled. This is a very useful move for effects like Out Of This World, Oil and Water, and other others.

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You will learn cutting and riffle shuffle techniques to keep the bottom cards in place.

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A table riffle shuffle that keeps the top stock intact.

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Both the Shank Suffle and the Zarrow Shuffle can be done from the long sides of the deck.

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This is a diabolic idea by Dai Vernon to improve on the Zarrow Shuffle. By doing the Zarrow twice he was able to eliminate the initial center block cut.

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This is an Ackerman variation of the Zarrow Shuffle to eliminate the initial center block cut of the classic Zarrow Shuffle.

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