Comment: (Jake Austin): Photos by Warren Torzewski
Contents: Includes Sleights taught for each routine
ix Preface
xi Introduction (Bill Malone)
3 Departure: Invisible Shulien Revelation
7 Tongue in Cheek: Ascanio’s Faro Shuffle idea
11 Metamorphosis: Frank Garcia’s Pirouette Double Lift; J.K.
Hartman’s Covered Cop Transfer
17 Ice Breaker: Paul LePaul Flourish
20 A Tribute to Dunninger
23 The 21 Card Trick: Gene Finnell’s Free Cut Principle; Jay Ose’s
False Cut; Marlo’s Flash Speller
26 Tale of Titanic Thompson
29 Psychic Poker: Phil Goldstein’s Binary Cut Sorting Process
33 Bill Malone’s “Cut Em High and Tie”
35 Birds of a Feather: Brother Hamman’s Swivel Switch; Larry
Jenning’s Modification of Daryl’s Display Sequence
43 Diving Rod: Marlo’s Cut and Shuffle Sequence
46 Miraculous: Frank Thompson’s Four Card Revelation
50 Equivocally Triumphant
53 The Miracle Deck: Peeking a Card During the Pass
57 The Last Good Trick: Gene Maze’s Card Box Load
60 The Four Robbers
64 21st Century Assembly
68 Del Ray’s Handling of LePaul’s Gymnastic Aces
71 Too Many Jokers
75 Weapons
75 Look Away Force
78 Steve Bedwell Control Variation
80 Card Warp Display
83 Unloading a Card
85 Peek, Stop, Touch
87 2 Full-Deck Controls
91 The Dummy Force
93 The Dummy Pass
95 The Dummy Fan Force
99 Tricks of The Masters
99 Mike Skinner’s Placement Principle: Marlo’s Faro Check
102 Count on It (Paul Cummins)
105 Persi’s Collectors (Persi Diaconis): Marlo’s Mechanical Second
Revelation
108 I Am In Debt (Fred Kaps): Marlo’s Book Break
111 Instant Aces (Larry Jennings): Ken Krenzel’s Mechanical Reverse
114 Shipwrecked (Daryl, Bill Malone)
117 Quick D-Way
123 Royal Aces (Ron Ferris): Benzais Cut with two cards; Walter
Scott’s technique for Dealing Seconds
127 1002nd Aces (Alex Elmsley)
131 Sympathetic Thirteen (Nate Leipsig): Paul Curry’s Swindle Switch
137 Gambling Routines
137 Poker Interchange Redux
140 Center Deal Demo/The Muck: Alex Elmsley’s Just Lucky Shuffle;
The Drop Switch (Original)
144 Just Lucky Eight Card Stack
147 21st Century Magician vs. Gambler
