In playing around with the faro stack I started to set the five handed stack up with a cull, instead of “losing” the aces.
Continue reading “Faro stack from a cull”Faro stack for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 hands, four aces
This was a “problem” I gave myself. Obviously you can stack four aces for a four handed game with two faro shuffles, but what if you want to deal a five handed game. Using my faro shuffle simulator I found a pattern that once the aces are in the correct locations a single faro out shuffle will stack them. (I used my faro shuffle simulator to work out the pattern)
Continue reading “Faro stack for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 hands, four aces”Pick up stack variation
Here is a variation of the pick up stack I described at https://robertjwallace.com/pick-up-stack/. This variation uses overhand shuffling to position the aces.
Continue reading “Pick up stack variation”5 HANDS – ONE RIFFLE SHUFFLE
This is from Marlo’s Magazine Volume Number 6. As he states, this requires a great deal of practice to accomplish. But I find it fun to play with. Read through Marlo’s instructions and then below that I have some of my own notes.
Continue reading “5 HANDS – ONE RIFFLE SHUFFLE”Another Bottom Riffle Runup
Still playing with the bottom riffle concept. I was looking for a single shuffle stack using the bottom run up, but without the need to have a crimped card. This is where I am at this moment. It is a work in progress.
Continue reading “Another Bottom Riffle Runup”In the hands four Ace control
Years ago I came up with a method for cutting the aces into a deck and controlling them to the top. (see https://robertjwallace.com/ace-control/ and https://robertjwallace.com/ace-control-notes/.) That control used cuts to the table to “lose” the aces. I recently decided to modify the principle so it could be done without a table.
Effect: Hand the spectator four aces. Take the aces one at a time, insert each into the center of the deck, followed by several in-the-hands swing cuts. After the second ace you can show the top and bottom cards. After inserting and cutting the fourth ace, you split the deck in half and give it one riffle shuffle. The aces are then shown on top. (That is a bare bones presentation, once you have the aces on top you could do anything you want. For example you could do an in-the-hands Triumph.)
Continue reading “In the hands four Ace control”Bottom Run Up – Riffle Stack
I am still exploring the topic of riffle stacks. I came across this one in Ed Marlo’s “The Cardist,” Vol. 4. It builds the stack at the bottom of the deck during the shuffles as opposed to building the stack at the top of the deck. The problem with many of the riffle stack techniques that build at the top is that unless you are super-humanly good you will end up slowing down the shuffle as you near the top of the riffle so you can insure that you have the correct number of cards controlled by your thumbs. This change of speed occurs at the point in the shuffle where other players attention is the sharpest.
Not to mention how difficult it is to accomplish. As Marlo says:
Continue reading “Bottom Run Up – Riffle Stack”JEAN HUGARD in one of his card books has described run-ups
The Cardist, Vol 4
from the top of the deck, in which it is necessary to hold
back a certain number of cards with each thumb in making the
riffle shuffle, at the finish of the riffle…I found this
very difficult of accomplishment at that time with any speed
or regularity in the riffle…FRANKLY, I STILL DO years later,
One Shuffle Eddie – a four ace production
I found this in Marlo’s Magazine Vol. 5. Basically it is a Triumph style production of four face up aces in different locations in the deck. I like that the aces are widely separated in the production.
Continue reading “One Shuffle Eddie – a four ace production”Double Duke for five hands
I was playing around, looking for an easy way of demonstrating a double duke card stack and this is what I came up with. It requires two faro shuffles (but only the top sixteen cards need to be perfect), and some short overhand shuffle sequences.
Continue reading “Double Duke for five hands”Just Lucky Riffle Stack
I stumbled upon this stack when reading a trick in James Swain’s book 21st Century Card Magic. The trick was “Just Lucky Eight Card Stack.” Swain mentioned the stack came from Alex Elmsley. Elmsley decsribes the stack in the book Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Vol 1, in a trick titled “Just Lucky.”
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