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Merenkov Elite user 413 Posts |
I posted a similar thread in the card forum. Anyone have ideas for tricks at the pool table? It seems like such a perfect stage, with so many potential props around. Please list any tricks you know that either: 1) simply take advantage of the nice, large surface of a pool table, or 2) make use of things like pool balls, cues, chalk, etc.
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Quentin Inner circle 1020 Posts |
Looch had a trick on one of his DVDs that uses pool balls and best performed at such a table. I thought it exceptionally good.
David Berglas loved performing around billiard tables. One of the best close-up mats going. |
Jacques Loyal user North 206 Posts |
See Craig Petty's "Pool Ball Miracles"
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Ramin Regular user 119 Posts |
I do the Ashes on the Palm with Pool Chalk.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
You may start with a C&Bs routine with two white pool balls and a red one appearing as large loads under the cups to relate magic to the pool table.
Contact juggling with a pool ball and vanish of it (Check Garrett Thomas DVD). Now if you can vanish a pool ball, you may wish to present it as a magical travel to a pocket (after all, isn't this the purpose of the pooll games...?) you could also let your billiard cue appear (repainted production cane fitted with a cork tip) or vanish (opposite prop) Chink a chink with the blue chalk blocks ... Learn a few simple snooker trickshots
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chappelly Special user Down Under 744 Posts |
"Pool Hall Hustle" Jeremy Moncrief Prediction of any numbered ball landing on any card from a deck.
"CulturalXchange" Apollo & Shoot 8 ball production. Chappelly |
Motley Mage Special user 572 Posts |
This is all very good. I especially like Lawrence's thinking. Walk yourself through an evening of playing pool and look at every moment as an opportunity. Do you use a cloth the wipe your hands? Silk vanish. Do you drink while you play? Multiplying beer bottles. A Zombie-esque routine with the eight ball (or the nine, depending on your game). Endless possibilities.
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John Long Inner circle New Jersey 2826 Posts |
With 6 built-in servants, you ought to be able to do some vanishes
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jay leslie V.I.P. Southern California 9498 Posts |
Color changing chalk
Predict a total with the Straight Pool counters Quarter hidden under a ball in the ball holder prediction Balancing 3 balls on the tip of a stick ( which I can make for 600, which I believe is in Hoffmans) Dancing pool que, top half Que stick penetration Que stick escape Color changing balls, especially snooker balls Linking racks I can probably think of 50 more.
Jay Leslie
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joseph Eternal Order Please ignore my 17407 Posts |
You should always be 'slated' to perform on 'cue',
so 'stick' to it...
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Einstein)...
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Charlie Justice Inner circle Mount Dora, Florida 1142 Posts |
If I'm ever even near a pool table, rest assured I'm pulling out my Morgans and hitting that felt with Shadow Coins.
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts |
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
I think a stage performance with billiards equipment as the unifying theme would be fine. (In fact, I believe that a professional has already done such an act.)
I think "fooling around" with billiards equipment in somebody's home billiards room or basement is fine as well. Maybe I am coming at this differently, but I am not sure that magic would be welcomed in a public or professional pool hall (or even at the lone pool table in a neighborhood bar). Suppose somebody wants to play pool? He would want to throw you off the table. Now, if you were doing some of Chef Anton's trick pool shots, that would be another matter entirely. |
TheRaven Special user 597 Posts |
Come up with a trick shot that reveals a selected card. Example, below trick shot can be Done with the balls covered by a hankerchief. Force the 9 of hearts. Have the spectator designate each pocket as a suit. Cause the 9 to go on the correct pocket to match their card.
http://billiards.about.com/od/easypropos......powe.htm |
Nate The Magician Regular user 159 Posts |
Has no one mentioned doing a billiard ball routine?
Seriously? It's perfectly possible to do a billiard routine non-gimmicked. I recommend the Cardini gimmick-less routine. 2 in the hand, one in the pocket with chalk and a cue ball finale; rack on rope; every other magic trick known to man (honestly, people aren't kidding about that surface.) |
Ihop Inner circle Glen Spey, NY 1604 Posts |
All these great suggestions and not a word from Merenkov, the OP! Not even a "Thank You"
Ihor
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