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After four books on Impromptu Card Magic stuff, Aldo is back with a book containing different material with cards, impromptu and not so impromptu, but all the routines have the emphasis on strong effects and leave lasting impressions on the audiences. Card Journal is not just 'another card book'... it's something much more special, something different in themes and effects. This is a 'must have' book packed with tested material. Pages - 32 - Saddle Stitched |
Basic text on modern card conjuring describes for specialists and amateurs alike exact methods for perfecting the Instant Reverse, Three Queens Monte, The Ambitious Card, and many other sleights of hand. Also includes advice on manipulation, the art of presentation, audience participation, use of patter, and much else. Clear explanations and detailed drawings enable performers to add polish and excitement to any presentation. |
BACK IN PRINT! Nick Trost is well known for his simple, easy-to-do brand of card magic. He uses subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects. This book contains 122 of his best tricks, plus variations of these effects by fellow magicians. Most of the tricks have been gathered from his column in The New Tops and from his manuscripts, books and marketed items. All of the material has been revised and rewritten especially for this book. There are also many new, unpublished items here that are sure to delight the card magician. Among the tricks included are such gems as Double Pinochle with an Elevator Finish, Matched Picture Cards, Eighteen-Card Poker and Blind-Sight. All of the tricks are described with easy-to-follow instructions, accompanied by 161 clear illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt. Here are a few of the areas covered:
This is Nick Trost's best and most complete book of card magic. It is hoped you will find many worthwhile effects here to add to your repertoire. Pages 331 - Hardcover |
Intended for the advanced card worker, this book is heavily illustrated to explain some of the more difficult sleights.You will learn; The Pass, Side Steal, Palming, Double-Lift, Changes, False Dealing, False Shuffles and more. Paul then teaches many great tricks using these sleights. The book is considered one of the most valueable texts oncard sleights. It should be a part of any serious card workers library. softbound 217 pages |
Edward Marlo's Card to Wallet manuscript, originally released in 1961, is one of the most exclusive Marlo items ever. So rare is this private monograph that even many Marlo students were not aware it existed. Card to Wallet contains Marlo's ideas with hip pocket wallets, and you'll find the applications discussed by Marlo to be more practical now than ever. More important still are the concepts outlined, which can be applied to many different wallets currently in use, and for routines with other objects as well. The loading techniques and routines described in this booklet have withstood the test of time and are worthy of your own personal study and adaptations. It stands as testimony to the brilliance of Ed Marlo that these ideas were developed by him over forty years ago, yet some have only recently been employed by others. If you love Card To Impossible Location tricks, this is a must for your library! |
The Card to Wallet effect is one of the strongest possible close-up effects with cards. Properly performed, it is incomprehensible to spectators. Ungimmicked wallets are featured in one large chapter of the book. Other chapters are devoted to many of the fine gimmicked wallets available including Himber Wallet, Mullica Wallet and LePaul Wallet. Methods described range from those requiring virtually no skill to more advanced methods that require familiarity with basic card handling methods. |
For those who have been looking for the first 5 books that Jerry Sadowitz and Peter Duffie published through Martin Breese - there is good news. All five books have been reprinted in one volume called CardZones. These are:
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The first volume of the real world Cardician Trilogy, John Racherbaumer's Cardfixes is a thought provoking collection of fresh tricks and ideas for today's cardman. Designed for everyone who loves card magic, whether they perform, watch, collect or simply read about what's happening here and now in the field. There are tricks requiring no skill, some skill,and exceptional skill. There are miracles with and without gaffs. Hardbound, over 200 pages, more than 50 items, and sumptuously graced with 156 crystal-clear photographs, Cardfixes combines top quality production with professional state-of-the-art magic. |
Cardially Yoursby Ed Marlo Volume Two of Magic, Inc.'s Marlo Trilogy. Cardially Yours is an anthology of card magic like no other. Detailed Description Between these covers you'll encounter classic works of legendary Chicago card magician, Edward Marlo including:
"Can you imagine what it must have been like, to be sitting at Ed's table, and be dumbfounded as Ed produced a signed card from the tabled card case? I envy you to whom some of this material is truly new. Because here you don't have to choose between what?s new or what's good. In this volume, you get it all." —Simon Aronson "This book dramatically and entertainingly reveals why Marlo was always 'ahead of his time,' providing strong card magic that ultimately proved to be timeless, applicable to all times, for all magicians." —Jon Racherbaumer "This anthology is jammed with great magic. If this is your first time reading the material, consider me jealous of the discoveries you are about to make. But, pay attention to the details. Ed Marlo did, and with them fooled the world. Studying and adding his kind of clever thinking and subtleties to your work will let you fool it too.' —David Solomon Cardially Yours is a collection of Edward Marlo's influential works on card magic. Made up of over one dozen important publications, it includes his reputation-making work, The Cardician. Composed of the sleights, moves, tricks, routines and flourishes that made Ed Marlo's reputation as a cardician par excellence, the miracle material in these pages is at once ageless, challenging and innovative. Pages 387 - Hardbound with Dust Cover, Photo-Illustrated |
Cards on the Table contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't used any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as a highly talented cardician on both sides of the Atlantic. Cards on the Table contains a variety of effects including Fetch which is an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. There is much more including Name a Card Triumph. When Jerry did this trick for us for the first time we asked him to repeat it. The card was located so fast we thought it must be coincidence. He did it five or six time more times but each time, from a shuffled deck and Jerry could produce any card named within seconds. Cards on the Table - Soft back - contains 25 items in all. Top class card magic by Jerry Sadowitz. |
by Darwin Ortiz Darwin Ortiz is unquestionably of the top cardmen in the world today. In this book he offers you the chance to learn the routines that have earned him his living and his reputation, including all of the psychological insights, presentational angles and performing tips which could only have been gained from years of professional performance. Contents:
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by Stephen Minch BACK IN PRINT! In ancient Rome there was a horn from which the riches of the world flowed. Now, from the fertile mind of John Carney, magicians have a new source of magical riches at their disposal. Within the pages of Carneycopia are taught the prized secrets of one of today's most creative and magical entertainers-John Carney. Here is the close-up of which he is proudest; magic that has won its creator the acclaim of his peers and the public alike. Each routine, trick and sleight is taught in painstaking detail. Here, waiting to amaze your audiences, is a compendium of close-up magic, formulated on the classic values of entertainment and baffling mystery. Pages 266 - Hardcover and Fully Illustrated |
"The consensus is in, gaming experts from around the world have hailed Casino Game Protection - A Comprehensive Guide to be truly one-of-a-kind, the finest, most in-depth study on casino game protection ever revealed...a jackpot, with the reader the winner!" Preface from the book: The following work is the culmination of 30 years of research into the arena of casino cheating, advantage play, electronic player assistance, and you name it. If a concept was designed, worked out, played, or dreamed of, and had anything to do with beating the casino - legal or otherwise - I've probably been there. Or close to it. After many years of working in the industry, then as a professional gambler, and later as a casino consultant, you will, hopefully, find my perspective unique as the information to follow comes from both sides of the table. Every effort was made to compile a comprehensive guide, and present the game protection topic with scope and objectivity. The scams and strategies presented run the gamut from old to new, from rank to sophisticated. Everything from marked cards and coolers to advantage play and electronic assistance is dicussed in detail. I've especially tried to address those million-dollar questions that come up over and over again, the questions that rarely get answered throughout an entire career. Is it possible to control the dice? What's best way to shuffle and why? Do roulette dealers have signatures to their spin? This work is not an encyclopedia or scams and strategies, nor is it intended to be. With certain techniques, such as false shuffles and card mucks, there are literally hundreds of variations. Describing them all doesn't serve a useful purpose. In each area, I've tried to select a variety of moves that best illustrate that spectrum of technique. The same can be said of the Card Counting and Blackjack Advantage Play chapters. There is some unavoidable rehash, a genuine effort to give credit where credit is due, and I will try to point you in the direction of quality information for further study. Despite these concessions, the book will stand on its own merit. It's a comprehensive guide. There is also a fair amount of historical information presented, and for many gamers there's a perceived antiquity with many of the older moves and scams. Don't fall into this trap, and don't underestimate the importance of a little history, as it will provide you with a deeper understanding of how scams, strategies, and procedures have evolved. This, in turn, may provide some sense of what to expect in the future. There is a time and place for every scam presented in this research. There are many important game protection topics that don't fit neatly into any of the specific game chapters. In the first chapter these topics are presented to set the tone and lay the groundwork for the detailed game information to follow. After the games are covered, along with chapters dealing exclusively with card counting and advantage play (with a focus on shuffle tracking), we'll look at many universal scams, especially marked cards. We'll complete the work with a final chapter on the art of detection and related topics. You'll also find a detailed bibliography of sources and recommendations-all the information you'll need to continue your research. The book was compiled sequentially, so each chapter should be read in order, yet studied as part of complete work. When you come across words and terminology from the cheater's or player’s vernacular, definition are available in the glossary at the end of the book. The book has been written from all capacities and levels of experience. If you are new to gaming herein lies an opportunity for you to separate fact from fiction, and to expand your game protection, this book will hopefully prove to be a helpful reference tool. With hundreds of photos, stories, and sometimes colorful language, I hope you find the text both interesting to read and easy to understand. When all is said and done, the primary goal of this work is to stimulate your interest and thinking about this very important industry topic. The opinions expressed in this book are my own, I alone carry the responsibility. - Steve Forte Sample Book Chapters
-George Joseph, President, Worldwide Casino Consulting Pages 627 - Hardbound |
Poker, America's Favorite pastime, has never been more popular! As with all gambling games, there's always the risk of being exposed to cheating. Poker Protection - Cheating and the World of Poker is the first, modern treatment of cheating and its impact on the game. Based on decades of extensive research, Poker Protection is an indispenssable tool that belongs in the hands of every player, dealer, and cardroom executive. Here are just a few of the many topics presented.
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If you are interested in Card Magic at all, you MUST have this book. Guaranteed to give you more useful, entertaining, audience preferred card effects, than any other book available. 272 pages, full of astounding effects, routines, ideas by Harry Lorayne and some of his friends, including some of the best minds in Card Magic: Dai Vernon, Francis Carlyle, Johnny Benzais, Frank Garcia, Herb Zarrow, Alex Elmsley, Al Leech, Jay Ose, Sam Schwartz, Ken Krenzel, Howie Schwarzman, Bill Simon, Walter Cummings, Paul Curry, Oscar Weigle, and others. Chapter for chapter, page for page, line for line, the most clearly and concisely written, and best magic content of ANY book you've ever possessed. Effective card mysteries you will do immediately, unique card tricks, with which you will bewilder your friends. Novel card mysteries you may have seen the experts do. Everything is revealed. There are 135 illustrations by Ed Mishell and the book is edited by Lou Tannen. |
This revolutionary CD-Rom/Ebook includes routines straight from Michael's act at the Houdini Lounge in the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Each routine is described in complete detail in Michael Close?s clear, easy-to-read style. It?s almost like having private lessons with Michael Close. BONUS: Three Essays on Magic Theory and Michael?s Presentation & Handling of: Dean Dill?s Box & Gary Plants Magnetized Cards. The 179 pages of Closely Guarded Secrets contain 18 chapters. The ebook begins with two introductory chapters. In Mike's words: The first chapter is casual in nature, allowing me the opportunity to fill you in on what?s been happening in my life. The second chapter is more formal; it explains the theory behind the ebook. In this chapter I also discuss my desire to make my performances feel theatrically real to my audiences. It is not my goal to make my spectators believe that I am doing real magic. But during my performance I never want to take the audience out of the show? by reminding them that I?m doing tricks. I do this by creating handlings that (as much as humanly possible) match the way I would handle the props if I had the power of a real magician. You?ll find that this philosophy has been applied to every routine in CGS. The next three chapters detail the three routines that were the backbone of my Houdini Lounge set. The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me demonstrates what happens when you live with a trick for 15 years. This is my handling and presentation for Dan Garrett?s Four Card Reiteration. I discussed this trick on one of the Very Very Close videos, but there is new work in this ebook. Presentation for Gary Plants?s Magnetized Cards is my handling of this superb marketed effect. Many professionals have asked permission to perform this, but until now I have selfishly kept it to myself. The Luckiest Cards in Las Vegas is the strongest memorized deck trick I have ever developed. It is stack independent, and is very forgiving in terms of estimation. This chapter begins with an overview of memdeck work, offered in the hopes that a few misconceptions will be cleared up. The Shuffles Routine has been in my repertoire for more than 30 years. You may already have a similar routine in your repertoire, but there are stratagems offered here that I think you will find very useful. I performed this at my 51st birthday party in front of a room full of some the best magicians in the world, and it got roars of laughter. The Cheating Lessons is a gambling demonstration. I have designed this to be a lesson in elegant card handling. You?ll also discover a very useful patter line and an easy method for obtaining a surprise kicker at the end of the routine. The next chapter is titled On Sleights . It begins with an essay on how to practice. In this chapter I discuss False Shuffles (Faro and otherwise), the Pass, and the Multiple Top Palm. The focus of the chapter is on stratagems for changing the moment, rather than on revolutionary new techniques. If you have ever hesitated using the Faro shuffle in your work, you will find two ideas here that may well be worth the price of the ebook. The Dumbest Casino in the World is a new approach to a familiar plot. The presentation is very funny, and the method will fool laymen and magicians. The Famous Detective Collectors is my handling of Larry Jennings?s Distributraction. Of particular interest is the elimination of ATFUS. I believe that when cards have been removed from the deck they should never be counted back onto the deck. This handling achieves that. Incidentally, this is one of the most difficult card tricks I?ve ever performed. If you want a challenge, you?ll find it here. (The good news is that to the spectators, no manipulation is visible.) The next three chapters deal with Magic for Magicians . There is an essay that includes several interesting approaches, followed by two tricks that you can use to fool your buddies. Pipedreams includes a variety of ideas that I have never really used in my professional work. However, they are all practical and useful. Many came about as I played with items that were sent in for review. Tim Trono has commented that my suggestion for the marketed effect Pyro Perceptions is worth the price of admission. Sideswiped Meets the Bammo Deck Walloper is a combination of two excellent marketed effects by Simon Aronson and Bob Farmer. Combining these two routines solves some problems and produces a climax that fools everybody. My presentation of Dean Box is next. The third phase of this routine is different than Dean?s and really leaves the spectators with a strong memory of what has happened. The final chapter is titled On the Workers Series. In this chapter I answer some questions about the evolution of the series, plus I provide some updates on several of the routines. System Requirements:PC: Windows ME, 2000 or XP (Pentium III or higher) Mac: OS X (Jaguar 10.2.2 or higher |
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