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This is a magician's fooler second deal developed by Ed Marlo. It allows you to deal 5th, 4th, 3rd, and seconds flawlessly.

runtime: 2min 7s

Allan describes how to avoid some of the most widely made errors with the bottom deal.

runtime: 3min 53s

The strike bottom deal is less versatile and needs a lot of practice to get right. It can be performed from an Erdnase grip or a standard mechanics grip.

runtime: 2min 2s

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.

runtime: 2min 14s

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.

runtime: 3min 5s

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.

runtime: 2min 43s

Here you will learn a couple of ways to cut cards to the top or bottom. Allan also demonstrates the Kick Count which is used to change the break from under the card you want to control to above the card.

runtime: 3min 3s

This is a very deceptive technique. It allows you to keep a break while doing a pressure fan.

runtime: 2min 13s

This is a basic card control - easy to do, but also easy to mess up. It allows you to control the top half of the deck. Allan teaches several fine points and variations, including the slip shuffle where the bottom card is maintained during an overhand shuffle.

runtime: 3min 57s

Allan teaches two fingertip controls, one by Charlie Miller from Expert Card Technique and the other by Ed Marlo from his Fingertip Control book.

runtime: 3min 36s

Ackerman marries the Kelly Bottom Replacement with the Convincing Control to eliminate the telltale front finger movement of the Kelly Bottom Replacement.

runtime: 2min 9s

This move is done on the table. Allan teaches two variations, one to control the cards to the top and the other to control them to the bottom.

runtime: 2min 27s

You will learn two methods to put a crimp in a card without getting caught.

runtime: 2min 20s

The thumb fan is not just a nice display of cards but it also allows you to hide a block of cards. It is therefore not simply a flourish but an actual move that achieves something. Allan talks a bit about the philosophy of flourishes. Should you do them or not?

runtime: 2min 38s

The pressure fan is harder to learn than the Thumb Fan, but it also works with less than stellar cards. And the reverse pressure fan allows all kinds of cool effects, either to show a regular deck as having all blank faces or a deck with backs on the front and back sides of all cards.

runtime: 3min 23s

You will learn two types of one-handed fans as well as a one-handed close of a fan.

runtime: 2min 10s

This is a fancy multi-packet false cut.

runtime: 2min 44s

By simply dropping and turning a deck, you change the face card twice.

runtime: 2min 16s

The pinky count is a versatile 'get ready' for a double or multiple lift, or whenever you need to get a break.

runtime: 2min 34s

This is a table full deck false riffle shuffle that comes from the gambling world. It is explained in Expert Card Technique by Hugard and Braue.

runtime: 2min 52s

This is a wonderfully visual and deceptive multiple false cut action that can be added to many false shuffles.

runtime: 2min 27s

This is the most deceptive false shuffle available today. It was invented by Herb Zarrow and worth while the work you will need to put into it to make it flawless.

runtime: 3min 8s

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

runtime: 3min 1s

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.

runtime: 4min 5s