This is another method for stacking the deck for straight poker, dealing out five hands.
YAOS – yet another overhand stack
I found this in “Card Zones – The Immaculate Card Magic of Peter Duffie.” This book describes a stack for four hands and then gives the formula for other number of hands. Since I always demonstrate a five handed stack here are the steps.
Continue reading “YAOS – yet another overhand stack”Oil and Water
Effect:
This is a classic oil and water effect, where four red cards and four black cards are interlaced, then shaken and shown to show that they have separated back to four red and four black. This is repeated three or four times. The for a climax, the shuffled deck is picked up and shaken. Then it is spread to show that all of the cards have separated into red and black. There are many methods published, I don’t remember where I found these, but you can find a list at the conjuring archive1.
Fan control
Effect:
The four aces are fairly inserted into the fanned deck, in different locations. The fan is closed and the deck is cut, then shuffled twice. At the completion of the second shuffle, all four aces are on the top of the deck.
Continue reading “Fan control”Bluff Shift, bluff center
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”Memorize deck tool
If you want to learn to use a memorized deck stack such as the Aronson stack then you can use my Faro shuffle simulator as a training aid.
Continue reading “Memorize deck tool”Double Lift
This is not a tutorial on the double lift, there are a lot of sources for that already. Instead this is a look at how lay people turn over a card compared to how magicians turn over a card.
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This is what I do for a practice routine.
Continue reading “Practice Routine”U.S. Playing Card Co. Prediction V2.
This is an alternative to the previous post, but basically the same effect.
Continue reading “U.S. Playing Card Co. Prediction V2.”U.S. Playing Card Prediction
This is a prediction effect using a feature of some Bicycle Brand playing card decks. The decks that I purchase have two ways of showing a “prediction”. One of the advertising cards shows the King of Spades and the box show the Ten of Hearts. What follows is one way I use this as a prediction.