Baker, Matt: The Buena Vista
Shuffle Club ©2019 by Matt Baker Hardcover, 264 pages |
Image courtesy Jake Austin |
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Contents:
9 Introduction
14 Prologue
17 Acknowledgments
19 Part 1: Memorized Miracles
19 A Stroll Down Memory Lane: Routines for the Memorized
Deck Connoisseur
21 Card College
31 Casablanca
40 Memento: Routines for Both the Memorized and
Non-Memorized Deck Connoisseur
40 Location Sensing Device
51 Tilapia
62 Variations, Part I - Buena Vista Shuffle Club
62 Histed Hoisted
72 Secret Arrangements: An Entertaining Effect that
Surreptitiously Stacks
72 Elementary, My Dear Vernon
87 Part II: …And Now for Something Completely Different:
A Bit of Mentalism
89 Performance Pieces for the Discerning Mindreader
89 Clue
101 Say Anything
116 Variations, Part II - Buena Vista Shuffle Club
116 Foiled by the Origami Test, Saved by the Lemon Law
121 Coin Conundrums: Pieces of Wonder with Pieces of
Eight
121 Three Coin Monte
135 Hive Mind
144 Quantum Matrix
157 Part III: Power to the Pasteboards
159 Casino Chicanery: Cheaters Gonna Cheat
159 Banned for Life
176 Subconscious Shuffle Tracking
195 Gilbreath Poker
204 Mental Math Machismo: Manufacturing a Mathematical
Spectator Suplex
204 Triple-Fried
217 Pile Driver
227 Variations, Part III - Buena Vista Shuffle Club
227 Avenging Mandelbrot
233 Major Gaffs: Tricked-Out Miracles for the Conniving
Conjuror
233 S.O.I.
242 Outlier
251 Quick Reference Guide