Moves & Techniques in Cards: page 18
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Larry West Count
Peter Pellikaan
This is also sometimes called the Mirage Count by John Bannon. You apparently show four cards all being the same. In reality you only show three cards face-up and it is always the same card you show, thus hiding the remaining three cards.
1st edition 2021, video 1:43.
Taytelbaum Flushtration Count
Peter Pellikaan
This is Eddy Taytelbaum's version and handling of a flushtration-type count. That is, you show the same card multiple times but due to the handling, it appears you fairly show each card of the packet.
1st edition 2021, video 1 min 27 s
Pellikaan Flushtration Count
Peter Pellikaan
This is Peter Pellikaan's version and handling of a flushtration-type count. That is, you show the same card multiple times but due to the handling it appears you fairly show each card of the packet.
1st edition 2021, video 1 min 56 s
Taytelbaum Count
Peter Pellikaan
The Taytelbaum Count is a modified Elmsley Count where the cards are turned over during counting. Just as with the Elmsley Count you can fully hide (front and back) one or more cards.
video 2:22
Xerox Count
Peter Pellikaan
The Xerox Count allows you to for example fairly show four cards from both sides but in fact you are hiding three cards and only showing one card multiple times. (The demo video below first shows the Xero Count followed by the Booki Count.)
1st edition 2021, video 2:30.
Booki Count
Peter Pellikaan
The Booki Count allows you to fairly show four cards while turning them over but you are hiding one in the process.
1st edition 2021, video 1:43.
Cut Count
Peter Pellikaan
The Cut Count allows you to show four cards (or more) and hide the second and fourth card in the process.
1st edition 2021, video 3:29.
Action Palm: Revolutionary Card Technique No. 2
Edward Marlo
Palming cards while the cards are in action of being shuffled.
Table of Contents
- The Action Palms
- The Shuffle Palm
- Delayed Action Palm
- The Count Cop
- Count Cop For A Number Of Cards
- Count Cop For Small Packets
- Count Cop And Transfer
- Count Cop Exchange
- Count Cop For Left Hand
- Action Palm - One Hand
- The Clip Steal
- Turn Down Palm
- Misdirection Palm
- The Cull Palm
- Cull Palm Replacement
- Pressure Fan Palm
- One Hand Palm As Action Palm
- Take Techniques For Action Palm
- Square Up Drop Palm
- Drop Cut Palm
- Double Action Palms
- The Table Edge Palm
- Pivot Bottom Steal
- Brush Palm
- Bits...
The Birdcage Vanish
Brick Tilley
A playing card held between both hands vanishes in an instant. It does not use a thread or pull or topit.
1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages, video 17 s.
Baccarat or Blackjack Switch
Brick Tilley
A two card switch for Baccarat or Blackjack that paralyzed casinos in the 80's. As clean a move as you could hope for. Excellent as part of a gambling exposé.
1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages, video 22 s.
The Side Steal
Brick Tilley
This hardcore tool is not an easy thing to acquire. That said, it is, with dedication, within the skill range of anyone willing to devote the time necessary to master it. The drawn-out process of selecting a card has become tedious and time-consuming, causing the audience to lose interest. With this side steal, a card is peeked, transferred from the middle of the pack to the top in an instant. This PDF and video will put the side steal within your skill range.
1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages, video 39 s.
Fine Art of Palming Cards
Brick Tilley
Palming cards, and getting away with it, is one of the most difficult skills in the magician's toolbox. If you've ever wanted to master this sleight here is your chance. This concise tutorial will get you started, or improve your current technique, in order to raise your confidence level. This lesson covers the one-hand top palm.
1st edition 2021, PDF + video (length: 16 s)
Throwing the Switch
John Mendoza
The purpose of the switch is to secretly exchange two packets of four cards. For example, to show four aces and then turn them face down and deal them onto the table for an assembly effect. The cards dealt onto the table, of course, are not the aces after the switch has been done.
- Introduction
- The Basic Switch
- Four for Five
- Just a Touch More
- Throwing a Pass
- In the Middle
- Changing Five
- Changing Five the Easy Way
- Triple Throw
- Just One More
- In Conclusion
Black Jack Hole Card Switch
Brick Tilley
This is an improvement in the handling of the Curry Turnover that makes this move easier to accomplish and more deceptive. A simple get-ready makes the exchange faster and infinitely more rewarding. It was perfected during hundreds of hours behind a Black Jack table without ever once being detected.
It can be used for magical purposes as well. Add this subtle weapon to your card arsenal.
1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 30 s.
Paint Brush Color Change
Brick Tilley
A beautiful color change made popular in the 70s by Walter Cummings. A fan of cards is waved in front of the rest of the pack, causing the face card to change in a dramatic fashion.
1st edition 2020, PDF 4 pages, video 47s.
Reflections on the Double Card: Ascanio's Handling
Jesús Etcheverry
The Double Lift is one of the easiest and at the same time one of the hardest moves in conjuring with cards. It is the easiest, because everybody can get a break under the top two cards, and then take and show them as one. There is no difficulty whatsoever in doing this. However, it is also one of the hardest moves, because to do this simple action deceptively, so that nobody even suspects in the slightest that you hold two cards, is hard.
This ebook explains in detail Arturo de Ascanio's approach to making the Double Lift deceptive. Jesús Etcheverry, a longtime student and close friend...
Charity: Running False Cut
Brick Tilley
An excellent running false cut that is highly deceptive and relatively easy to master. Combine this with any false shuffle.
1st edition 2020, PDF 4 pages, video 26 s.
Cull-Mination
Jon Racherbaumer
Culling (cards) is not a particularly fashionable technique. During the past forty years, card magicians started to pay closer attention to various ideas and techniques, especially those having broad application. In this treatise three types of culls will be examined:
- Desired cards are secretly culled during the logical and natural course of an effect.
- Free selections are controlled (culled) to desired positions during a visible procedure that looks fair and above board.
- A cull done during another fair procedure that results in separating the four suits in Ace to King order.
The Ascanio Spread
Jon Racherbaumer
The Ascanio Spread is a beautiful false display move, generally used to display 4 cards and hide a fifth one.
From the Introduction:
The Ascanio Spread immigrated to this country from Amsterdam. Del Cartier, Herb Zarrow, Mike Rogers, and Pete Biro were instrumental in bringing this technique to America. In fact, Del Cartier is a close personal friend of Ascanio and was the go-between in obtaining the original Ascanio manuscript for Mike Rogers, who in turn passed it on to me.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- To Begin
- Racherbaumer Variation
- Some Comments On The Mechanics Of The...
Shank Shuffle
Brick Tilley
The Shank Shuffle, a full-deck false shuffle, was published in 1971 on Ed Marlo's behalf by Jon Racherbaumer. The Zarrow shuffle came out around the same time. New Yorkers backed this method, and that overshadowed the Shank method, which may be superior, depending on your point of view. The Shank method is regarded as more convincing by some card handlers. Reading the description can be a bit daunting for the novice. Here is your chance to master the shuffle thanks to a lucid video presentation and clear text and illustrations.
1st edition 2019, PDF + video (length...
Super Session #11: Casino Zarrow Shuffle and the Gardner-Marlo-Webb Poker Deal
Gregg Webb
The original version of the following card tutorial, "Gardner-Marlo-Webb Poker Deal," was first published in Gregg Webb's ebook, Soapbox Derby.
The package presented here includes:
- Webb's Casino-Style Zarrow Shuffle Tutorial
- Gregg's improved "Marlo-Gardner-Webb Poker Deal" using Casino Zarrow Shuffles
Ablest Exchange
Abhinav Bothra
Two eye-popping 2 card transpositions using Ablest Change.
- Transposition #1 is for you to pump up your social media.
- Transposition #2 is simply an everyday miracle.
1st edition 2020, length 5:30
Inferno: Hole Card Switch
Brick Tilley
During the 1970's Dai Vernon demonstrated this around the Magic Castle to anyone who was interested. He was quite fond of it. It is a neat, highly deceptive, practical hole card switch using natural actions, something he highly favored.
1st edition 2020, PDF 4 pages, video 12s.
The Dark Ride: Deck Switch
Brick Tilley
This is the deck switch from the train car poker game scene in the movie The Sting, executed by John Scarne, renowned gambling expert. It is straight forward and within the range of anyone willing to devote the time necessary to master it. Add it to your skill set. You will receive a PDF and a video (download from your digital shelf).
Here is the clip from The Sting where the switch is executed.
1st edition 2019, PDF 4 pages, video 17s.