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Rói Heinason Regular user 101 Posts |
Ben Earls Sow by the lug is a fantastic piece of gambling magic. And fooled the heck out of me .
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Bill Hallahan Inner circle New Hampshire 3222 Posts |
My favorite quick poker routine from a shuffled deck is Simple Double Duke by Simon Aronson. It requires culling a few cards, but it has an effective presentation.
My favorite multi-deal poker routine is the oddly named "Rump Shaker Poker Deal" from the book 52 Memories by Jack Parker and Andi Gladwin. The routine uses an idea I saw in a poker deal in The Card Magic of Nick Trost, but carries it to an amazing extreme. The routine also uses the main idea in the Lorayne Poker Deal. Tomas Blomberg was instrumental in creating the routine with Jack Parker, and in a PM, Tomas let me know that it is based on a trick named "Take It Or Sleeve It" that he worked on with Jason England. The effect is as follows. The magician shuffles the deck and then deals six hands. The magician gets the four aces in his hand. (At this point, I pick up the other dealt cards, but leave my hand on the table, telling the audience that a cheat might covertly keep, i.e. hold out, his own cards for the next hand). The magician asks a spectator to riffle shuffle the previously dealt cards with the undealt part of the deck, while implicitly (not explicitly!) emphasizing that the shuffle is unimportant since the magician has the aces. The aces are then placed on the bottom of the deck, and six hands are dealt again, but the magician bottom-deals the aces to himself. A good bottom deal is desirable, but not necessary. Jack Parker provides a great line in the book that you can use at this point if your bottom dealing can be easily spotted. The dealer's, i.e. magician's, cards are placed on the bottom of the deck again, and the other dealt cards are retrieved and placed on the top of deck. The magician shuffles the deck, and then asks which player will be his partner, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. Again, six hands are dealt, and the aces are dealt from the bottom to the hand at the chosen position. The aces are shown at that position, then, going around from the dealer's left to the right, each hand is turned up, showing increasingly better hands, until finally it is shown the the dealer has a straight flush! It has a similar feel to Dai Vernon's routine, but a spectator does a riffle shuffle during the routine and there is no deck switch!
Humans make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to create boredom. Quite astonishing.
- The character of ‘Death’ in the movie "Hogswatch" |
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bishthemagish Inner circle 6013 Posts |
I think that part of it depends on how we as magicians choose to work and how many shows we are doing - so to speak. Many great card shark magic routines have an involved set up. The Vernon Poker deal - and several great routines in the Rufus Steele Books have an involved set up. His lecture with a cold deck has a very involved stack (In the book last word on cards). He also has a bridge and poker demonstration in his book 50 tricks - that also has an involved set up.
One of the reasons that I like the punch and culling is that it cuts down on the set up. Like the punch - once the work is in - I can cull a hand for a demonstation in no time at all. In expert card technique Louis Zingone uses a jog shuffle cull to control three selected cards. In a footnote in Revelations Vernon sort of talks about the Erdnase system of culling cards and how it could be used in magic to great advantage for a magician (jog shuffling face up). I have writen (books - DVD) a lot about culling - stacking and the punch over the last five years and I find it useful in my own work. Many magicians that I have known use the poker and bridge deals as a show of skill rather than a show of magic. I guess it comes down to how we choose to work with what we want to do. I hope this helps. Just my opinion.
Glenn Bishop Cardician
Producer of the DVD Punch Deal Pro Publisher of Glenn Bishop's Ace Cutting And Block Transfer Triumphs |
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