Video clips (download) in Magic & Mentalism: page 43

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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This is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.

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A jogged card can be seen by a spectator if the pack is placed on the table. Allan teaches you how to use a dribble to disguise the jog, but at the same time allows you to maintain the jogged card.

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Use a Hofzinser Card Control type action to control a card to the top.

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This is a bluff pass to bring a selected card to the top while it appears to the audience that you have burried the card in the middle of the deck.

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It is what the title says, an overhand shuffle executed in one hand.

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It looks easy when Allan does it, but this is a pretty tough move to do.

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This is a fun little action to add on to a Charlier Cut.

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This is a one-handed cut from Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.

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The middle section of a deck is swivelled out and cut to the top.

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This is similar to the 3-Packet One-Handed Cut except that you are pulling out 2 packets from the deck, rather than one.

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This is a color change by Max Malini. A slap on the face of the deck changes the card.

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This is a basic color change to change the top face-up card of a deck.

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This subtlety will make it much easier and cleaner to turn back a double lift.

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Get your break on a square-up action.

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If the Pinky Count is too difficult you can learn one of these two much easier methods to obtain a break under the top two cards.

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This is a flashy double lift where the double card makes a somersault.

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This technique is an application of the Vernon Push Off and allows you to table a double.

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Howie Schwarzman further improved Marlo's Throw Double into a remarkable long toss that sends a double slithering over the table.

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