Category: Ace Trick - Page 3 - Robert J Wallace

February 8, 2019September 1, 2023

Stacking the deck

Below is one of my “Starbucks” videos of a practice session of stacking the deck. What I like to do is stack the four aces for a five handed game using different stacking techniques. In the video I stack the deck with a Zarrow shuffle, then a riffle shuffle technique, then Erdnase overhand shuffle, a milk shuffle, and an overhand shuffle from Dai Vernon.

February 5, 2019May 5, 2019

Easy ace opener

This is the Ace opener that I usually do. It is simple but plays well.

I usually get into this using my two step cull after having the spectator shuffle the deck. After the cull I have four aces secretly on top of the deck, ready to be produced one by one.

December 27, 2018May 6, 2019

Osterlind stack to 4 aces

I use two different stacked decks, the Si Stebbins stack and the Osterlind stack. When using the Osterlind stack I do several mind reading effects and then offer to demonstrate how a card shark uses the deck, and shuffle the cards ending with four aces on top. Here is how I do it.

December 9, 2018May 6, 2019

Visual Ace Production

This is something that I am playing around with, trying to find the right combination of sleights.

Effect:

Spectator shuffles the deck. The performer shows the faces of the cards and comments on how well mixed they are. The performer then does a couple of shuffles to further mix up the cards.

Then the performer shows the top two cards of the deck by turning them face up. The performer then shows the bottom cards of the deck by flipping the deck face up on top the two top cards. Then turning the deck face down, the performer waves his hand over the deck and a face up ace appears.

November 30, 2018January 25, 2019

Ace Control notes

The following table shows the movements of the aces during the Ace Control. The first column assigns a number to the 52 cards from the top card, 1, down to 52. Since the aces begin out of the deck, they are numbers 49, 50, 51, and 52. Reading the other columns from left to right show what happens as each ace is inserted into the middle of the deck and then the cuts are made.

The column labeled "First Ace" shows the ace being inserted at location 26 in the deck. The next column, "After Cut" shows that that ace has move to location 2, etc.

November 30, 2018January 25, 2019

Ace Control

This is my own ace control. It looks very fair, with each ace being inserted into the deck and the deck cut several times. Between each ace insertion the top and bottom cards can be shown. After inserting the aces and cutting, the deck is shuffled once and then all four aces are back on top.

The left hand column describes the cutting actions, the right hand column shows photos and adds more detail. There is a video at the bottom of this post showing the action.

Begin with the four aces face up on the table.

November 12, 2018November 15, 2020

Finding the Aces with Erdnase

This is an effect that I use to practice the Erdnase system of cull shuffling.

Effect: The performer shuffles a deck of cards and then has the spectator shuffle them as well. The performer then takes the deck back and ribbon spreads the deck face up on the table, remarking that the deck is now well shuffled as the spectator can see.

Picking up the deck the performer give the deck another shuffle, overhand shuffling the cards.

Then explaining how card sharps always need to find some good cards for their hand, the performer turns over the top four cards, revealing the Aces.

November 7, 2018November 4, 2022

Aces and Dice without the Dice

November 7, 2018January 25, 2019

Erdnase system of stock shuffling to stack for Aces and Dice

Erdnase stock shuffle for stacking the Aces and Dice trick

Refer to the Expert Card Technique book for the Erdnase system of stock shuffling. This modification will stack the aces for the Aces and Dice routine. The stack puts the aces at locations 5, 7, 13 and 15.

Start with one ace on the bottom of the deck and three on top. (I cull the four aces to the top of the deck and then double cut one to the bottom)
Undercut half the deck.
Injog the top card (an ace) and shuffle off 6 cards, outjogging the next and shuffle off putting the last card from the right hand on top (an ace).
undercut at the out jog, taking a break at the injog.
Run one card and throw the rest from the break on top
run one, in jog, run 5 and out jog.
Under cut at the in jog and throw on top
Undercut at the out jog and run one and throw

November 5, 2018January 25, 2019