What a great trick. But, I hate the beginning when selecting the "predictions". I've been changing it to just some false cuts while face up then just pulling off the top three cards. This is more convincing, but I like the repetion of the back color with the original method. Does anyone have another approach to introduce the predictions and flash the back color plenty of times?

This is a great trick but be careful at the beginning, if you do false cuts theres more chance you may flash, ive used johns handling for ages and nobody has ever said anything about it as seemingly your turning the deck over and starting from the bottom.
but go with whatever your comfy with

I have done this quite a bit and noone has evewry mentioned anything. This is a great closer for a card act though.