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Still no skill? Still no problem!

Turn any spectator into a world-class card cheat. They'll love you for it unlike that stupid thing you do with the sponge balls.

The magician hands the spectator a lucky rabbit's foot. They take turns cutting high card: the spectator wins every time. For the finale, they play a hand of poker - the spectator controlling the cards - again the spectator wins.

Cheat: The Prelude the perfect lead in to Cheat. Together they make a devastating gambling routine, irrefutable evidence that you - YOU - are the MAN! (even if you are not a man).

Simple and practically...

The dark side of gambling.

"Loaded with rare, inside information." - Darwin Ortiz

"Absolutely fascinating and enlightening! Ingenious methods that boggle the mind." - Daryl

"Inside techniques exposed for the first time in print." - George Joseph / Director of Surveillance, Bally Entertainment Co.

It may be shocking and it's certainly dangerous. Nevertheless, this unique ebook represents the definitive resource on how professional con men cheat at Blackjack and other card games. The author, a former high-stakes cheater, explains an amazing array of specific moves with clear, understandable text and...

"Must reading for all card magicians!" - Allan Ackerman

"Outstanding!" - Darwin Ortiz

"This book should be on your shelf alongside The Expert at the Card Table, The Man Who Was Erdnase, The Annotated Erdnase, and Loaded Dice." - William P. Miesel

His name is not "Marks," but when you buy this ebook you will learn why he had to write under an alias. The ebook covers advantage play, cheating, and the moves that get the money.

"Exceptional. Controversial. Highly recommended." - Michael Dalton / Blackjack Review

"WOW! The real world of cheating and the plays that get the money." - Bob Snyder / Gaming Consultants

• Introduction
• My Credentials
• Casino Organization ...

You will learn two half passes, one by Henry Christ what is called the Christ Twist and the other by Ken Krenzel, the Mechanical Reverse.

runtime: 1min 26s

Included are many photos, pix and a video.

This is the third e-book in the series of Classic Card Magic. Keep up with this series of killer card magic. Paul presents six more amazing classics of card magic complete with details of performance, patter, and methodology. Paul's introduction is a "must read" for performers to understand how and why these classics are so important.

Look what is included below:

1) OUT OF THIS WORLD - Considered by many to be the finest card trick ever devised. This easy to do rendition is performed entirely by the spectator and will make their jaws drop....

Allan Ackerman explains the Al Baker version of the classic force, the Hofzinser force and fine points of the Hofzinser force.

runtime: 3min 17s

A little booklet with 12 great card tricks. And the price - a steal!

1st edition, 1934, Max Holden; 12 pages.

2. Sleight of Foot
3. The Voice Betrays
4. The Puzzler Card Trick
4. Card in Pocket
5. The Obliging Card
6. The Joker Tells
7. Cards Behind Back
8. Mind Control
9. A Clever Spelling Trick
9. Another Spelling Trick
10. The Reversed Card
10. Mental Forecast
11. Advertisement

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

runtime: 1 min 7 s

Long-time pro, Paul A. Lelekis, presents the second ebook of his trilogy for the performing professional, Close Up Journey 2, and just like Close Up Journey 1, this one is a monster! No fluff, no filler! 7 MORE WORKERS!

Photographs of Paul's hands explain every nuance!

To begin with, Paul has graciously provided a 4-page synopsis on "How Do I Control My Spectators!" This section contains valuable information. Included is excellent advice on close-up performance, dressing up your presentations and patter, how to be in command of your spectators, putting them at ease, how to choose your spectators, how to...

Andrew Perry, or Drew as his friends call him, started out with cards and they are still his favourite genre. Therefore you will find mainly card tricks and sundry sleights in his new ebook. But there is also something with matchboxes and several interesting ideas and techniques. His one handed double lift is quite a treat.

1st edition, 2002.

1. Introduction
1. Foreword by Peter Duffie
2. Impromptu Rising Card
3. Ungimmicked Rising Matchbox
4. Matchbox Madness
5. The Better Bet Count
6. Coin Monte Surprise
7. Clip 'n' Swap
8. Water Monte
9. A Perfect Gambling Demonstration
10. The Telephone Number Trick
11. Impromptu Counting...

Paul presents seven powerful effects, explained in full, with many step-by-step photographs. These are powerful, yet easy-to-do, professional routines - complete with patter - and most of these effects are completely impromptu.

All seven effects are non-card effects.

The introduction is a six page treatise on performance, spectator management, various forms of misdirection, and the successful executions of some very important, yet troublesome sleights. Also learn how to passively and actively control your spectators. This is very important information!

Included in the introduction are...

The next three chapters detail the three routines that were the backbone of my Houdini Lounge set.

The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me demonstrates what happens when you live with a trick for 15 years. This is my handling and presentation for Dan Garrett’s Four Card Reiteration. I discussed this trick on one of the Very Very Close videos, but there is new work in this ebook.

Presentation for Gary Plants’s Magnetized Cards is my handling of this superb marketed effect. Many professionals have asked permission to perform this, but until now I have selfishly...

The ebook will teach you how to:

• CAUSE A CLOUD TO VANISH FROM THE SKY. It will also show you methods where that cloud and ONLY that cloud vanishes. The others remain intact.
• CLOUD MATERIALIZATION -- magician points to an empty space in the sky and causes a cloud to...

Issues 14-17

• Inside Information
• Let's Take a Closer Look: TYRED by Ron Escott
• Kiddies Column: Fatuous Fatima by Walt Lees
• Flying Spots by Tony Chaudhuri
• Magic of the Mind: Satan's Checkmate by Gardi
• News and Reviews
• Cabaret Time: Hints and Tips
• Blooming Cheek?

• Inside Information
• Let's Take A Closer Look: Matchaskill by Gerald Kosky
• Kiddies Column: Going Dutch by Walt Lees
• Bar Magic: The Card on the Window
• Computer Conjuring by Peter Rendle
• Card Sessions: Spot Repellant by Tony Chaudhuri
• Patrick's Page: The Square Circle Production
• Packet Jumping...

• Walt Lees Editorial
• Variations on a Theme: The Monte Christo Card Continues
• Subscription Information: How to keep it coming
• Competition: You chance to win big prizes
• Basic Card Technique: Another Top Change by Tony Jackson
• Kiddies Column: with Richard Stupple's routine for Giant and Dwarf
• Computer Magic: Part two of Walt's Quick on the Draw
• Juggling Jottings: Bob Menary continues this useful series
• Pronto Card To Wallet: Our serialisation of Hugh Miller's 'Al Koran's Legacy'
• Punch and Judy: musings by Ron Denton
• The Sword of Fate by James Breedon
• Funny Fings that persist...

• ... issue
• HOW TO SUCCEED Part 14 of Steve Jones Get Rich Quick series
• NEWS & REVIEWS around the studio conducted by Geoff
• MISTAKE: A mental offering from Arun Bonerjee
• WHAT DO I DO NEXT? Ponders Malcolm Yaffe
• RIGHTING A WRONG: A Clever idea from Angelo Carbone
• SNAP: An almost serious strong-man card effect from Tony Richards
• FOUR CAUGHT: Inventive effect by Robert Gardner
• BACK WINDOW: Al Smith with a song in his heart
• TOSSED OUT BOOK: Not a literary salad but a mental effect by Barrie Richardson and Eric Mason

• BIRTHDAY GOLD by Malcolme Yaffe Especially for the Children's...

• Entertaining Children Part 4 by Walt Lees - The choice of material
• SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION - How to keep the club magazine dropping through your letter-box!
• Malcolm Yaffe with an intriguing variation on 'String & Bones'
• Drama in Magic - Steve Jones with part 2 of his exciting new series
• PRELOCATION - another ingenious winner from Phil Goldstein, alter ego of Max Maven
• Simon Sayes - Simon Lovell with a nifty card miracle especially for flummoxing magicos!
• News & Reviews. Geoff with the latest update on the forthcoming QE2 Magic Convention/Cruise
• The Back Window and Al Smith...

• NEWS and Reviews with Geoff Mattby
• STEVE JONES tells a story about High Society
• BARRIE RICHARDSON with a clever, different and subtle card to pocket
• JOHN RHODES with all the news that's fit to print, gleaned from around the world
• ALAN WARD with Thaumatropic Trickery
• ACE Children's entertainer Ian Adair with invaluable advice on using rabbits in for the children's performer
• ALI CARDABRA with rope and silk magic for the trendy Trixter
• ARUN BONERJEE continues his mentalism
• EXPOSURE!
• BASIC CARD TECHNIQUE chapter 26 covers the Double Lift
• EDDIE DAWES tells you what you have...

This ebook contains little tidbits and ideas that you can place right into your act. Some are clever, some are cute and some will make you (and your audiences) laugh out loud!

• Memento
• Three
• Borrowing Money By Remote Control
• Moola Monte
• Silk Extraction
• A Card Stabbing Souvenir
• In Miniature
• Odds And Ends
• Escape
• Impromptu Bullet Catching

1st edition 1959; 1st digital edition 2013, 15 pages.

The magician draws a coke can on the back of a playing card. With a wave of his hand, the card changes to a real coke can.

Please note that this only works from a very narrow viewing angle and thus can only be successfully performed when a camera is between the performer and the spectator which allows precise control of the viewing direction. The gimmick is easy to make.

1st edition 2022, video 13:11

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

runtime: 52s

The act opens with a wonderful version of a modem classic, Gambler vs. Magician. A tale of the world's greatest gambler challenging the world's finest magician is related. A card is chosen, sight unseen, and the magician is challenged to cut to the three mates of the unknown card from a shuffled deck. He succeeds in cutting to three mates, but it is discovered in the end that they do not match the value of the selected card. A surprise ending is achieved when the three...

You will learn how to effectively combine faro stacking with riffle stacking. Allan teaches a wonderful effect "The 10-Hand Poker Deal Demonstration" where the spectator chooses the hand that should receive the 4 aces. No false dealing is necessary. Everything is accomplished with stacking.

runtime: 3min 24s