Old magician who likes old cars, and old whisky
Effect:
Four aces are displayed on top of the deck. They are turned face down and inserted (and left protruding) in the front of the deck in different locations. The deck is turned face up to display the aces, then turned face down and the aces are pushed flush into the deck. The deck is then cut and shuffled once. The four aces are back on top of the deck. An alternative is a faux demonstration of a center deal.
Continue reading “Bluff Shift, bluff center”This was one of the first four ace tricks I learned. It is easy to do and is a little different from the “Let’s cut the aces” routines.
Continue reading “Christ Aces”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.
Continue reading “Stacking the deck”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.
Continue reading “Easy ace opener”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.
Continue reading “Osterlind stack to 4 aces”This is something that I am playing around with, trying to find the right combination of sleights.
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.
Continue reading “Visual Ace Production”