Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 13

The strike second is the most basic and also the easiest of the second deal variations.

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

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

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

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A move developed by Ed Marlo where you steal the top card while squaring up a deck that is resting on the table. This can also be used as a color change if the deck is face up on the table. And Allan also let's you in on Eddies 'Nickle Color Change' where a nickle is placed on the face up deck. Nevertheless the card changes instantly leaving the nickle on the deck. This one is guaranteed to fool magicians.

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This is a great move by Tony Slydini. The four aces are put back into the deck, letting them stick out by about half. Despite the fact that the aces protrude, the clever Tony steals them into a Tenkai Palm leaving four other cards protruding. How he does that you will learn in this video.

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The name 'movie control' comes from the fact that Allan developed it while watching a movie. You control a card to the bottom via a clip steal.

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This is a move to clip or steal the top card while placing the deck somewhere.

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Go from a side steal directly into a Tenkai palm.

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This video explains how to side steal a card and then replace it on the bottom.

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This is something Ed Marlo liked to do, a side steal with a bluff action.

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Side steal a card and then place it efficiently and invisibly on the top of the deck. If you read somewhere 'do a side steal', this is typically what is meant - side steal to top.

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Go from a side steal to a full palm position: kick-out, pull-out, and squeeze into palm.

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Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

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AB stands for Ackerman-Barnhard. It is a way to palm the bottom cards from an overhand shuffle.

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This move was developed by Allan Ackerman. You start out with a convincing type of control. By angling the card correctly you can have it automatically end up in a left-hand magician's palm.

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While you perform a double cut you palm off the bottom cards. This move was developed by Art Altman.

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Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well-covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left-hand magician's palm.

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This is a palm from Gen Magazine where the top card from a pressure fan ends up in the gambler's cop after the fan has been closed.

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Allan teaches the basics of the gambler's cop.

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This is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card that is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop.

Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.

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Learn how to hold out a gambler's cop and how to perform the add-on to get the cards back to the deck.

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