This book was inspired by the popular Auto-Magic columns that author Michael Breggar wrote for "The
Linking Ring" magazine. He has a passion for sharing professional and practical magic effects that
are relatively sleight free, and the tricks included in this book are relatively straight forward to
learn, while being big on presentation.
Published in 2017, it includes eight effects, some
ideas for variations, and a couple of short essays (one serving as the introduction, the other as
the conclusion) that discuss how to approach self-working magic.
The tricks include the
excellent poker routine that gave the book its title, a great idea for an ACAAN routine, some other
card tricks, and also some `self-workers' with coins and mentalism.
Michael has a very
chatty and witty style that makes for fun reading, and has some lovely presentation ideas.
Excellent presentation ideas for some terrific self-working magic
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