If you already know the method behind the classic Tossed out Deck effect, you're not getting much
value in this DVD. The video was a little misleading, in giving the impression that the last
spectator -- the one whose card you didn't initially name -- was also part of the "tossed out deck"
phase of the plot. In fact, he's not. His card is selected in a different manner than the others.
I've been doing amateur magic for 20 some odd years now, and I know that promotors of magic
products tend of over-sell the effect a little. I guess I was just a sucker for thinking this trick
was something that it's not.
On the other hand, if you don't know the original tossed out
deck method, then this is as good as any other place to learn it, I guess.
As others have
noted, the DVD is actually a little painful to watch. Gazzo repeats himself far too often and his
disclosure is rambling and unfocused. It's a little surprising, because he doesn't come across that
way in performance. Ah, one of life's many mysteries.
Meh.
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