Video clips (download) in Magic & Mentalism

Phase I - Bite off the pen nib and spit it back on. Immediately, open the refill compartment, let the spectator touch the nib.

Phase II - Make the refill rise out of the pen.

Bonus - A Russian Roulette with pens, where spectators select the pens to be smashed. The whole effect is totally under the performer's control.

The video will explain you how to gimmick a pen. No special pen is needed.

1st edition 2013, 12 minutes

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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Once you have mastered the Maintain Break With Fan technique you can use this idea to rather glimpse a card than keep the break.

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You take a playing card and with one finger slowly and visually evaporate the back of the card, leaving the frame of the card, and develop it back. Easy to make from any white-framed playing card. No black art. No CGI.

1st edition 2021, video 13:38.

This is a little convincing noise that you can add to a double lift to subtlely underscore that it is only one card.

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If you want to see Allan start with a deck in new deck order, do 8 out-faros and end up again with the deck in new deck order, then this is the video for you.

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This is a technique, developed by the Professor, how to move the top card into a magician's palm while maintaining a high arch in your palming hand.

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If you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

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This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple-top palm.

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Top palming a card with the right hand is typically exposed on the left side. Allan shares a tip that makes a top palm essentially invisible from 360 degree.

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Tony Slydini used this move for his famous helicopter card trick. A card is stolen into a Tenkai palm while it is inserted into a fan.

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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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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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Allan teaches the basics of the gambler's cop.

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

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

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Go from a side steal directly into a Tenkai palm.

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

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

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This is a variation of the classic push off second deal where the thumb works from the top edge of the package rather than the long side edge of the deck.

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With a bit of neck-tieing the deck you can turn a push off second deal into a very effective card change.

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Under the disguise of counting a few cards off the top of the deck you can perform a second deal and displace cards.

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The Movie Second Deal is really more a flourish than a second deal. It is a one-handed second where you pull out the second card and place it on top with the thumb.

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

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

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

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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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This is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break.

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Once you hold a break, this technique allows you to peek the card while you square up the deck.

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Use a Kick Count to crimp a peeked at card.

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