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Richard Kaufman wrote:Best tricks requiring a Faro Shuffle:
1. The Gun Trick by Ken Krenzel
2. Paul LePaul's Gymnastic Aces

Those are beauties!

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For an incredible, impossible seeming effect, see Lorayne"s Faro Blockbuster from Deck-Sterity. It is mind-blowing in my opinion. If you know the method, you'll see why not many people do it I think. But it is very strong.

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For a slough-off Faro, I like an effect called Easy Prediction also by Lorayne from his excellent JawDroppers Two.

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I like a simple quickie called (Four)titude by Harry Lorayne.
And of course, Vernon's Aces from the same book.

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I have all of Pitisci's books.
They are all excellent. If one has studied all his previous writings, his latest, Bare-Bones Tarot, may be his best yet.

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...to all my magical Brethren here on such a wonderful forum.

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I'm really enjoying this column from Jon R.

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Well your mother produced thousands of eggs and your father produced billions of sperm. If a different sperm met a different egg - you wouldn't be here today. Hitler caused WWII. And world war two changed the course of all future events. If Hitler had never existed - there is a good chance your Mum...

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Im confused. Why wouldn't we be alive today had Hitler never been born?

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I love magic illustrations.
I understand Schmidt worked free hand from text only. Very cool.
I like Earle Oakes.
I like Kaufman's lines of motion but I also like his depictions of the practitioners- their hands, arms, heads, etc. Very cool.
I'll take an illustration over a video any day.

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Gents,
Hartman's Card Dupery is dedicated to the illustrator- Joseph K. Shmidt. I wonder, was this the last book he illustrated before passing?

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Richard, am I able to purchase this book from you? Is a subscription required?
Please clarify for me.
Thanks.

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John G. describes this handling in more than one routine in his One Degree. Powerful stuff indeed. I Like it as a follow up to Mated!
Thankyou for sharing this.

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I also like Bro. Hamman's The Doppelganger Card.

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Torn and Restored Transposition- Williamson.

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Ok. I'll be ready when you are.
Looking forward to it.
I'm so glad you are producing magic books.

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Direct Mind Control by Trevor Lewis- Roger's Thesaurus

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Sweet! I am assuming that is your daughter, magicfish? (doing my favorite flourish, and one that is a real crowd pleaser - the flourish and undoubtedly, the little girl!) Yes, my daughter. I taught her the One Way Back principle and the Key Card. This is her first flourish. And that's a poker sized...

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I'm so proud:
https://youtu.be/HQAu2jAEkN8

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Very nice topic under the circumstances. I hope all of you are happy and healthy. https://youtu.be/htQI69Ucb1s Sorry gents, I should specify that I always loved Stabbed in the Pack from Deck-Sterityand while Harry's description of the toss is wonderful, I always had trouble landing the card at midp...

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Very nice topic under the circumstances. I hope all of you are happy and healthy.

https://youtu.be/htQI69Ucb1s

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Thanks Alfred, I will revisit that item.

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Which DL(s) is/are your favorite? Lately I started doing the Dribble Double taught by Earl Nelson. You dribble the deck down into the other hand and with slight pressure near the end you can end up with just two cards. It's a bit knacky but if you've been handling a deck for 40 years, it's not hard...

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My pleasure, Edwin.
And thankyou for those thoughts and references. I do like Burgers treatment of it a lot.
If you ever read Here's My Card, take s look at Ackerman's handling.

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Hey fellas, hope you're all healthy and happy. I'm in isolation like the rest of us. The wife is in bed and I'm having a whiskey and studying sleight of hand. I'm wondering if any of you enjoy Lou Gallo's Two Card Reverse from Underground Man. I love this book and this particular effect has always b...

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Buddy Farnan changed my life with the miracles he performed on an early VHS with Billy Bishop. I mastered his thimble sequence at a young age. He was a real magician. Bob McAllister inspired and enlightened me to the idea that a magician was a magician wherever he went. Everyday objects could be use...

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JawDroppers- Lorayne

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Sounds interesting. But an old acquaintance who was kind to me as a youth at the Toronto Round Table told me not to buy anything published after 1954.

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"I always believe in simplifying the means of performing any illusion. Thus, I have always taught amateurs to eliminate the pass in card tricks. is usual to receive back a chosen card on the lower half of the pack. Then put the two halves together. Then make the pass. and then false shuffle the...

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Perhaps J.K. Hartman's Knuckle Jog could be applied here.

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"Not easy otherwise to find much coverage of that issue in one place."
Don't equate accuracy, quality, or legitimacy to something because it may be the only game in town.
Anyway, back on topic.

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I've said it before but, does this guy really think his ideas are original? Does he think he is telling us something we don't know.
Gratuitous profanity aside., just getting through a paragraph is excruciating.

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Jack Shalom wrote:I strongly recommend The Jerx's series on exactly this issue. It begins here:

http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2019/6/23/c ... tonishment

Just read it.
Drivel.

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"Even though she was still fooled by the trick, that remark ought to scare the daylights out of any thinking magician. It did me. It also made me reconsider the conventional bromide that you should strive to do magic in the spectators' hands. Tain't necessarily so..." John Bannon, DM...

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performer wrote:I really wish I could find that lukewarm evaluation of the theory that tricks done in the hand are better. I swear it was Eugene Burger who wrote it. I am going to keep looking.

John Bannon I believe.
I'll try to find the reference when I'm home.

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I’ve heard it is a very good book.
@Bob, Interesting. I’ll dig out my
Pabulars.
I’ve been dreaming about how this looked in Cervon’s hands for decades. I may have to look into the dvds.

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Gents, I have always loved the Elevator Card plot. Martin Nash's Ups and Downs has been a favourite impromptu effect for many years. I have always been intrigued by Cervon's Floating Aces. I have played with it off and on for decades. I'm wondering if anyone here performs it, or has performed it, or...

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The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne.

Hands down.

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My copy has just arrived!
What a beautiful Hardcover this is.
A high quality publication!
Now to dive in....
Ohhhh baby.

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Nah bro, you guys go ahead, Imastick around and smash the Charlie Miller Pinata for the Bloggers to ponder and comment on. They'll think I know the real work. Ahem, C-ck B-lls...We're Streaking! How's my shock value? Have I won at least Townsend yet. ? The others are low hanging fruit. Love you Jona...

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