Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes
that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading
from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How
to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random.
Flick a card accurately across the room.
The clearest, easiest-to-follow book of step-by-step directions,
"The Amazing Book of Cards" will show anyone how to do 52 amazing
things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay, the
award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of "Magic:
The Complete Course," "The Amazing Book of Cards" combines
friendly, concise text and full-color photos with a full-length DVD
that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance.
Here are simple, killer tricks, like "Presto Prediction," which
performs the impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she
even makes it. Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle,
the one most often used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a
split deck together in seconds. How to perform fans, flips, and
flourishes, including Ribbon Spread & Flip and Catch-a-Deck.
Tricks you can't lose go ahead, take the bet to throw a card in a
hat. How to memorize a deck in less than ten seconds, how to put a
deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a card castle, and more.
Filling out this labor of love is a whole world of card trivia,
including the origins of Kings: King of Spades is modeled after
King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, Hearts is
Charlemagne, and Clubs, Alexander the Great.
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