Higham, Justin: Pseudo Cheating
Demos And Effects ©2013 Justin Higham Softcover, saddle-stitched, 40 pages |
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Contents (from book ToC and Denis Behr's Conjuring Archive):
iv Foreword
1 The 15 Card Poker Climax: Climax phase for the classic
10-Card Poker Deal. Sleights: simple overhand shuffle, false cut.
7 Switch Method (Will Houstoun)
8 Pointing Up the Spectator's Discards (Will Houstoun)
8 Spectator Versus Spectator
9 Spread Count Poker Stacks
9 Spread-Count Poker 1: A sleightless way of stacking the Aces
using an optional palm replacement at the start
10 Spread-Count Poker 2: another
11 Freedom Stacking (Joseph Barry): Four Aces dealt from a
borrowed shuffled deck. Sleights: full-deck false shuffle.
14 Bottom-Deal Count Substitute: Spectator deals 25 cards into
poker hands and receies the four Aces. Sleights: overhand shuffle
work; also uses one bottom deal if stacking a royal flush.
15 Pseudo Dealing Demos
15 Mini Faro, Named Centres: Kings or Aces as chosen by sepectator
are "center dealt". Sleights: dribble pass, turnover pass.
17 The Compenstation Deal: Illogical but fooling solution to the
classic Vernon/Fulves poker problem. Sleights: double-card
handling, bottom deals.
18 Pseudo 10 Hand Poker Stack: Aces are shuffled into the deck, 10
hands of poker dealt, and performer receives the Aces. Sleights:
adding cards onto a top stock during a riffle shuffle, tabling a
double, double push-off/deal.
19 Face Up Deals: From borrowed shuffled deck performer wins
multiple hands of blackjack and deals a full-house. Sleights:
multiple second deals.
19 - Extended Face-Up BlackJack Deal
20 - Extended Face-Up Poker Deal
21 Gardner-Marlo Reworked
21 GM Poker: A solution to ‘Gardner–Marlo Poker Routine’ with only
one four of a kind being dealt. Sleights: turnover pass.
25 Easy Gardner-Marlo
25 Two Shufflers: The performer and spectator each shuffle half
the deck; first deal provides Spectator four sevens, then a royal
flush. Sleights: jog shuffle, milk-build shuffle, faro shuffle,
and an easy switch taught in the text.
26 Two-Phase Shufflers
27 Notes on Dealing
28 Pseudo Memorisation Demos
28 Stand Up Poker Deal (Ian Saville): Deal a full house from a
borrowed, shuffled deck. Sleights: culling, faro shuffle.
29 75% Poker Deal: deal three of a kind from a borrowed, shuffled
deck. Sleights: classic pass.
31 Faro Flush Presentation: Update to Fr. Cyprian’s effect with a
pseudo-memory presentation and a choice of draw poker or hold ‘em.
Sleights: faro shuffle, double undercut.
31 Pseudo-Memory Deal (Benjamin Earl): spectator shuffles and
performer deals the Aces. Sleights: faro shuffle.
32 Pseudo-Memory Deal/Location: dealing or cutting to the Aces in
a deck shuffled by the spectator. Sleights: faro shuffle
(optional), basic cut and shuffle work.
33 Frank Lane in Disguise
33 First Flush: A royal flush is cut into the middle of the deck.
Two hands are dealt, and one of these is ‘switched’ for the royal
flush. Sleights: simple false cut.
34 Poker Charade: A royal flush is dealt from a deck shuffled
multiple times by the spectators. Sleights: palm replacement and
general card handling.
36 What Goes Around, Comes Around: Three hands dealt from a
spectator-shuffled deck. The performer receives a full house.
36 The Appearing Poker Hand (Benjamin Earl): Deal a royal flush
with no false shuffles, stacks, deals, or switches
38 Jungian Poker
38 Jungian Poker - Modified: Locate a thought-of card and its
matching straight-flush cards. Sleights: top stock shuffle, false
cut, spread cull, overhand shuffle work.
39 Jungian Location: Spectator notes bottom card of packet and
shuffles the deck. Performer locates selection and its matching
straight-flush cards. Sleights: spread cull and optional sleights.
40 Jungian Instinct