The magician simply waves his hand over the deck and then spreads the cards. It is now the magicians turn to see if he can find a four-of-a-kind faster. He then continues to cut to the other three Kings. He cuts a portion from the mixed up deck and cuts to a King. Before they start, they decide to make it a little more interesting: they shuffle the whole deck face-up and facedown.

They decide to see who can find-a-four-of-a-kind the quickest. The two men decided to test each other's abilities. They were talking about who was better at their respective fields. The last face-up cards coming out of the deck are the four aces leaving the performer with only face down cardsĪlford, Jason: Thinking & Wondering ©1998 Jason Alford, p 28 ”Poker Triumph”: A story about a magician and a gambler is told. The performer then demonstrates center dealing only the face up cards. A face up half of a deck is shuffled into the other face down half.

He turns the classic Triumph effect into something entirely different. and Vernon's Triumph & Mayhew Poker Deal © Allan Ackerman,, the ”Mayhew Poker Deal” is an idea by Steve Mayhew.

”Slop Shuffle” (Sid Lorraine) ”Winding The Pack” (George Coon)Īckerman, Allan: The Esoterist ©1971 by Allan Ackerman, Paul Diamond, p 32 ”Color Triumphant” colour changing deck climax & Here's My Card ©1978 by Allan Ackerman with Steve Dushek, GBC Press, p 68 ”The Spectator's Triumph”: a spectator shuffles the cards face up and face down, (almost) ungaffed & Allan Ackerman’s Advanced Card Control Series Vol 5 DVD © by Allan Ackerman, includes many false shuffles like the Strip-Out False Shuffle, Up The Ladder, Pull-Through with a Cut, The Zarrow Shuffle, The Shank Shuffle, etc. As usual to design my own, I refused to reinvent the wheel and went a bit around to check what subtleties had already been found.Īcer, David: Natural Selections ©1995 by the Camirand Academy of Magic, p 87 ”SST” (Straightforward Stand-up triumph) & Random Acts of Magic ©2004 by the Camirand Academy of Magic, p 17 ”Over Easy”: a small packet version of Triumph (The Biddle Steal) ”Flippant” (Looy Simonoff) p 139 ”Time Boards” (with Richard Sanders): the deck turns into a time-telling device.

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