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.
Cut deeper as a key card location
The cut deeper force is one of the easiest forces, but I have noticed that many spectators expect to remember the card they cut to that is face up. A way of using this is to use the process to set a key card as follows.
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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”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.
Continue reading “Stacking the deck”Delayed double cut control
I have always liked the double cut control for its simplicity and directness. My only objection to it is that it is usually done at the wrong time, immediately after the spectators card is returned. That is when the spectators attention is at its height.
Continue reading “Delayed double cut control”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.
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There are a lot of techniques for stacking poker hands, from the simple milk shuffle, to Erdnase, to riffle stacking, to using Zarrow shuffles. But one of the simplest is to do a “pick up” stack, which is simple stacking the cards you want as you pick cards off the table.
This is how I do it for a “poker stacking” demonstration. A I present this as a shuffle stacking demonstation, it really is a bluff stack, in that the shuffle is not doing the stacking.
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I am teaching a friend some card technique and put together this video to give him a practice routine. Below is the video with text instructions.
Here is the video without instructions
And yet another false cut
There is a simple false cut that I like to do on off beats, those times when the spectator attention is not riveted on the deck. Although, done properly and with the spectators at the right angle this is an excellent cut that closely mimics a single fair cut.
Continue reading “And yet another false cut”False cuts
Here are some more false cuts. These are in the class of false cuts that look like multiple cuts but in reality simply cut the deck once, leaving the deck as if it was simply cut once. These are useful when dealing with a stack such as Si Stebbins, or Eight Kings.
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