Magic Tricks

Paul does an excellent job of taking a well-known routine and spinning it into something of his own. If you're an experienced magician, you may or may not recognize this, even if you already know the original routine. That's because Paul has made some changes to it that make it indistinguishable to the prior traditional routine. In this way, this trick can be successful in fooling some magicians... and definitely all laymen.

What is really, really cool about this trick is that Paul shows you a great way to set this up right in front of your spectators without them even knowing it... by doing another trick! That's right! Consider this (as I did) a bonus! This IMPROMPTU trick can truly be done with any shuffled deck and no gimmicks. The way you set this up by performing this other trick is simple but genius!

As usual, Paul does a great job teaching this. I had a little hard time following here or there, but I think that might be because I'm just really tired right now... so I won't penalize him for that.

To be honest, the trick itself, I was going to give this 4 or 4.5 stars because, even though it is well taught, to me it isn't extremely exciting enough to get a "perfect score" of 5 stars. HOWEVER, the fact that this is done with a truly shuffled borrowed deck with no gimmicks and is set up right in front of your spectators makes this a powerful impromptu trick. And to do the setup while doing a different trick first (consider this a 2-for-1) is just a great kicker bonus.

So, Mr. Gordon, you get 5 stars from me. Great job!

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