Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal

[Bob Farmer]

Bill didn't mention this, but the book he asked me to sign was, "I Was Tortured By The Pygmy Love Queen."

[Leonard Hevia]

I sent Mr. Farmer an IOU months ago, and still haven't received my copy of ITTCPD.

[Bill Mullins]

Bill didn't mention this, but the book he asked me to sign was, "I Was Tortured By The Pygmy Love Queen."

Link. No, Bob, when you signed that one, you inscribed it "I've Seen You Work -- This Book Is Not For You!"

[Bob Farmer]

Anyone who has purchased the book can get an updated insert for free. Just email Suley at info@magicana.com to get a pdf.

[billmccloskey]

Picked up the book on a vacation to Vegas last week Bob. Really enjoying it.

[Jim Martin]

Thanks for the updated insert, Bob.

[Bob Farmer]

Thank you for your support!

[Don Hendrix]

Bob,
Quit fooling around on the internet and with all that boring lawyer stuff and get that next book out!

[Bob Farmer]

Don, I'm trying, I'm trying! I just got a new batch of illustrations from Tony Dunn and they are fantastic.

[Don Hendrix]

Good news!

[Richard Stokes]

Have just come across Losing End Poker in the Bammo book (p 318-320).

Others have mentioned this non-Jonah method earlier in this post.

What a brilliant card trick!

Made my day.

Thanks, Jon Racherbaumer and compiler Bob Farmer, for including it in the book.

[Bob Farmer]

The book is nearing sell-out and will not be reprinted, so if you don;t have a copy, better buy now.

[IanLand]

My copy is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm quite excited.

[IanLand]

I'm reading it now instead of doing things I should be doing. Outstanding book, Bob.

[Bob Farmer]

Thank you for the compliment.

My next book will be the Bammo Flim-Flam CONglomeration and the book after that will be the Bammo Think-of-a-Card Encephalon. No dates yet.

[Steve Mills]

Does anyone have a link to Ricky Jay's TV performance of End Poker?

Every link I've tried has gotten a 404.

Thanks.....
Steve

[Bob Farmer]

See:

https://www.vidivodo.com/ricky-jay-toni ... allon-e2tv

The book is now completely sold out and there are no plans to reprint it. Thank you for all the support.

[Bob Farmer]

I have had several inquiries about the availability of The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier. I am completely sold out, and it seems so is everyone else, but it appears to be available from Geno Munari:

https://www.houdini.com/bammo-ten-card-deal-dossier

Bammo Fans take notice: this week I will be releasing The Bammo Brain Bamboozler. Emails to all my customers to follow shortly. This is addendum #1 to The Bammo Gaffus Maximus.

[Bob Farmer]

The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier New Edition

It’s back! Copies of the original hardback edition—if you can find them—have been selling online for hundreds of dollars. The book is literally unobtainable. Its value, inestimable.

But now Houdini Magic and Bob Farmer have joined forces to print a new edition in a luxurious supple format. The contents of the new edition are exactly the same as the original.

However, the new edition comes with a DVD which contains videos featuring Allan Ackerman, Tim Ellis, Curtis Kam and Mike Porstmann and a 37-page booklet of all new material.

The price is $45 but here’s the deal: if you already have a copy of the first edition, you can purchase just the DVD and the booklet for $15. Shipping is extra. Don’t miss out this time because when this printing is gone there will be no more.

Available ONLY from Houdini Magic, not from me.

Book and DVD with booklet addendum, $45, here:

https://www.houdini.com/bammo-softbound-1308

DVD and booklet addendum only, $15, here:

https://www.houdini.com/bammo-softbound

One more thing: With, “Escorial 3 Cards Monte,” (aka “Visible Monte”), Gaetan Bloom invented one of the most revolutionary gaffed cards in history. It has been ignored by the magic demimonde, but not by me. The results are here:

https://www.lybrary.com/objet-card-tric ... 23583.html

[Kent Gunn]

Farmer gets the award for "Tossing off the most literary reference of the week" award for . . .

Using the word demimonde.

Jesus . . .

[Joe Lyons]

From the Oxford dictionary:

Demimonde

noun

“ the class of women considered to be of doubtful morality and social standing.”

I forget, which is the oldest profession?

[Barden]

Bob,

Does your Bloom card manuscript include instructions on constructing the gaff? I haven't really looked, but I don't think it is readily available for purchase.

[Bob Farmer]

Yes, the manuscript contains detailed instructions on how to make the gaff but I construct it differently than Gaetan did. The great advantage of this gaff is how easy it is to make--it takes a few minutes and requires no skill whatsoever.

[Bob Farmer]

From Wikipedia:

Demi-monde refers to a group of people who live hedonistic lifestyles, usually in a flagrant and conspicuous manner. The term was commonly used in Europe from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and contemporary use has an anachronistic character. Its connotations of pleasure-seeking often contrasted with wealth and ruling class behavior.

The term 'demi-monde' is French for "half-world". It derives from a comedy called Le Demi-Monde, by Alexandre Dumas fils, published in 1855.[1]

The term was often used as one of disapprobation, the behavior of a person in the demimonde being contrary to more traditional or bourgeois values. Such behaviors often included drinking or drug use, gambling, high spending (particularly in pursuit of fashion, as through clothing as well as servants and houses), and sexual promiscuity. The term demimondaine referred to a woman who embodied these qualities; later it became a euphemism for a courtesan or prostitute.

As the twentieth century dawned, changing social mores resulted in the demarginalization of the demimonde. Women's suffrage and the flapper movements resulted in the label demimondaine becoming obsolete. The term commonly used to refer to the class that became 'starving artists'.

[Joe Lyons]

The term commonly used to refer to the class that became 'starving artists'.

OK.

For a demisemihemidemisemiquaver there I thought you were calling us whores....

[Kent Gunn]

Oh, he was calling us whores.

[Bob Farmer]

I prefer the half world meaning.