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Add to Del.icio.us | Digg ThisAt the Aventura Mall Miami FL today we visited the Apple Mac Store and Moisha the magician tries hitting on the girl that works there; like he does everytime we go to the Apple Mac Store.
So she finnally agrees to see a card trick, but gets interupted with a customer who needs help buying a mac.
As her back is turned moisha places the 7 of Clubs gently into her back pocket.
We get very excited and wait till she finshes with the customer so we can do the infamous “that can’t be your card, that card is in your pocket” card trick.
At the moment is when she reaches back and grabs the card and gives it back to Moisha with disapointment before we even get a chance to do it.
We leave the store with embarassment.
Add to Del.icio.us | Digg ThisWe’re at it once again at the Aventura Mall Miami FL. Come join us to see some amazing card tricks.
We will also be attending the 7:45PM showing of Black Snake Moan. Feel free to join us for all the festivities.
Place: All Around Aventura Mall Miami FL, the Aventura Mall Movie Theater, and the Apple Mac Computer Store, Godiva Store
Who: Preston, Moisha, and Konstatin
Date: Saturday, March 03, 2007
Time: 4:00PM-10:00PM
I went to the Coconut Creek Seminole Casino today to play some poker. About 5 people we’re ahead of me to get seats. As I was waiting for my name to be called I took out my Bicycle Black Tiger Deck and started practicing some card flourishes and a card color change trick.
My skills are good so that I can impress random people but they are not up to my standards yet. Anyways as I’m practicing some card flourishes, the floor comes to me and says:
Joe The Floor: Are you a magician?
Preston: As a matter of fact I am…
Joe The Floor: Nice (and he immediately walks away)
I suppose he had to do his job and couldn’t have everyone circle around me while I astonish them with some magic tricks.
As far as the poker session I played $80 in $2 Ante for the first time and lost within 15 minutes got a seat at a regular $2 straight game and turned my $40 into $200 in about an hour. I played good but I was also being a luck box.
“How’d he do that? It must be a trick deck!”
If you are a novice magician you may of asked yourself this a few times. I put together this list which I believe is the top 5 trick decks used in magic tricks.
1. Svengali Deck
2. Stripper Deck
3. Invisible Deck
4. Rising Card Deck
5. Gaff Deck
A Svengali Deck alternates between normal cards and shortened cards, and the shortened cards are all of the same card. When you riffle the deck front to back, only the regular cards are visible; when the deck is riffled back to front, only the shortened cards are visible.
A Svengali Magic Deck should not be allowed to be examined closely. A Svengali deck can aslo be detected by its characteristic faster riffle and sound.
Svengali Deck Card Tricks
An example of a trick that could be performed with a Svengali Magic Deck the spectator or you cut the deck and picks the first card. This would be a shortened card.
After the card is placed back in the deck the magician can reveal the card in many ways; 2 examples would be shuffling the deck and revealing another short card (which would be an identical card). Another example would be turning the deck over and riffling back to front revealing only the shortened cards showing that the whole deck is now their card.
A Stripper Deck is a deck of cards that have each card has a cut on one of the sides.
A Stripper deck can be either a”Belly Stripper Deck” or a “Hindu Stripper Deck“. The differnce between a “Belly Stripper Deck” and a “Hindu Stripper Deck” is if the cut is on the narrow or wide side of the deck of cards.
Stripper Deck Card Tricks
An example of a card trick that could be performed with a Stripper Deck would be letting a spectator choose a card and being able to immediately locate it.
This works by turning the deck over so the opposite side face the spectator; so when the card is placed back in the deck and shuffled you will be able to cut right to the card by cutting the deck on that side of the deck.
Another trick you could perform with a Stripper Deck would be separating the black cards from the red cards.
A Invisible Deck trick that is performed with an Invisible Deck is where you ask the spectator to tell you of any card he thinks of and it just so happens that specific card is flipped inside the deck.
Invisible Deck Trick Revealed
The cards are kept in a certain order for example odds on one side even on the other side. If the card is an even card the magician would flip the deck to the odd side where only odd cards can be seen.
Every other card in the deck is turned over. A special coating is placed on the cards so the backs will not slide if you give a lot of pressure.
So if the spectator choose the 6 of Hearts the magician would flip the deck to the odd side and would look for the 5 Of Hearts and the 7 of Hearts, then giving less pressure with his thumb he would reveal the card hidden behind the 5 of hearts flipped over. Which he would then reveal is in fact the 6 of Hearts.
The Rising Card Deck is a special trick deck that obviously makes the spectator’s card rise out of the deck.
Rising Card Deck Revealed
After the spectator picks his card the deck is cut to a special section of the deck which is stuck together.
This section of cards has a special weight and string attached to a peice of 3m tape. When the card is flipped upside down the weight is forced to go down.
Depending on how much pressure you use when holding the deck it will make the card rise faster or slower.
Add to Del.icio.us | Digg ThisTricks performed with a Gaff Deck usually requires a good amount of sleight of hand skill.
Gaff Deck Trick
An example is moving the pips of a card and sliding it down. This trick is performed with gaff cards that are obviously fake but with some sleight of hand can be made into amazing tricks.
Another example card from a gaff deck is a “3 1/2 of Clubs” or a “14 of Diamonds”