Favorite Gambling-Themed Effect?

[Guest]

I have been asked to provide some gambling-themed entertainment for a "Las Vegas Night" fund-raiser at my daughter's grade school.

I'm thinking: Poker, blackjack, Monte, etc., some "card sharp" cheating demonstrations (real or faux), and a killer "Gambler vs Magician".

I currently only do a couple card effects that fit the gambling/cheating theme, and I'll need about 45 minutes of material.

Any favorite routines to recommend? (Preferably with cards, but dice would work, too!) Something that can be adapted and presented as gambling or cheating, ala Open Travellers ("Invisible Palm") or Devil's Elevator (2nd, 3rd and Bottom-Deals), would be good too!

Thanks!

[Guest]

Two fun routines are:

Ten Card Poker Deal from 'Deck-Sterity' by Harry Lorayne

Mexican Poker from David Solomon's 'Solomon's Mind'

Both are easy to do, highly entertaining and with Harry Lorayne's patter you'll be sure to have them giggling throughout.

[Guest]

How about the King of the gambling games: Three Card Monte. Easy to understand. Powerful effect.

I learned the standard routine from Whit Haydn's wonderful manuscript and video. Michael Skinner's Ultimate Three Card Monte has also been a winner for me, even when there's been kids around.

[jimmycards]

Gardner-Marlo Poker Deal in Marlo's book, "Let's See The Deck".

[AMCabral]

"Big Fella-Little Fella" from Close-Up Card Magic (the routine, I think, is Walter Gibson's).

-Tony

[Jakob Rasmussen]

Hi.

Ultimate Cardshark
From Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table.

This one will really kill them.

E-mail me for a version that don't need Rifle stacking and start from a new deck.

Best

Jakob

[cataquet]

In a recent Genii, Bob Farmer wrote about a full deck black jack stack. It's a fantastic stack, where the dealer always wins. Ideal for a Vegas night!

Bye for now

Harold

[Ricky Difeo]

Hi!

I Love Master Poker Demostration of Derek Dingle!!! See The Complete Work Of Derek Dingle pag.207/209 ;)


This is one wonderfull rutine!!

Ricardo Difeo.-

[mrgoat]

I love Vernon's Cutting The Aces with the patter about the one armed gambler

As if you care what I think anyway! :D

[mrgoat]

I love Vernon's Cutting The Aces with the patter about the one armed gambler

As if you care what I think anyway! :D

[Guest]

I see that no one's yet mentioned Vernon's excellent Cutting The Aces! ;)

[Michael Kamen]

There's a lot of newer material I have not yet caught up with. That said, I always found Lorayne's "Magician vs. Gambler" a killer for laymen and magicians as well, in his Personal Secrets, p 27.

[Guest]

John Booth has a whole gambling routine in his book "Marvels of Mystery". In case you can't find this book (it is an old one and may be out of print) the same piece can be found in his more recent "Dramatic magic"

Another excellent and little known item can be found in Bruce Elliot's "100 New Tricks" It is a pseudo expose of the second deal and palming and replacement of a card. The whole thing is self working and relies on bluff and the use of a duplicate card. You also miscall a card.

It works very well. I remember getting a whole convention of magicians drooling over my second deal because of this routine. I never had the heart to tell them the whole thing was a con and my second deal wasn't quite as good as they thought.

If you can find this book and the routine therein (I can't remember the title of the routine) you will be well rewarded.

[Michael Dustman]

While it would be a little more lengthy of a routine, you may consider David Williamson's "Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret".

3 phases...great story for the occassion.

[Guest]

Without tipping method(s), can someone describe the plot and "magical moments" that make up "Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret"?

[Ian Kendall]

Hmm, though one. Aunt Mary's is basically a proposition bet where the spectators never win, although there is a very real chance that they might (seemingly). It's fab.

If you are considering dice, how about some dice stacking; fast and visual for a child's attention span...

Take care, Ian