Card Control: Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments

by Arthur H. Buckley

Overview

This profusely illustrated book demonstrates step by step the astonishing card magic cultivated by one of the premier sleight-of-hand artists of the 20th century. It presents maneuvers that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used to great advantage. It is not a book for beginners, but will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance in their art.
Among the moves are shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, and steals. You'll learn how to do the false table riffle shuffle, how to deal from the bottom, how to know an opponent's hole card, how to "warm up a cold deck," and much more. In addition, the author presents forty dazzling deceptions guaranteed to amaze your audience: Confusion, Birds of a Feather, The Ambitious Card, A Brilliant Climax, Your Favorite Ace, A Quickie, The Obtrusive Queens, and many more. Over 300 photographs show the practitioner's exact hand positions during each critical move.
Australian-born Arthur H. Buckley became well known in America for the magic he worked with cards on the major vaudeville circuits of the 1920s. Schooled by the great sleight-of-hand artists he met in the entertainment business and by professional gamblers he met in his early years touring Australia, his absolute mastery of the most artful and demanding card-handling routines was legendary. In 1946, he wrote this practical guide revealing in detail the secrets of his art. Any magician or card conjurer who aspires to the utmost proficiency in card manipulation will want to have this indispensable reference in his or her library.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486156651
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	04/02/2012
Series:	Dover Magic Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Arthur H. Buckley

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE Sleights The Strip A Blind Riffle Shuffle "The Force That Couldn't Be" Domico Double Lift The Exchange Greek Shift Greek Shift?Buckley's Method Hindu Shift Vernon's Multiple Shift Multiple Shift?Buckley's Method Buckley's Slap Shift Buckley's Single Card Shift Shifting a Card from the Bottom of the Pack Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Top Stock Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Bottom Stock Buckley's Out of This World False Shuffle and Cut Buckley's Method of Secretly Placing a Bridge Sighting or Glimpsing the Top Card Sighting the Top Card ? Second Method Sighting the Top Card ? Third Method Sighting the Top Card ? Fourth Method Improved Peek Sighting After the Peek Turnover Sight Location Stepping After the Peek Other Locations After the Peek The Slide The Invisible Location Buckley's Reverse Sighting While Cutting the Pack The Glide The Glide ? Second Method The Glide Location Buckley's Method of Sighting While Fanning the Cards Glimpsing the Bottom Card Buckley's Diagonal Location The Break Shuffle Buckley's Method for Dealing Seconds Domico Location Cardini's Location The Count False Count for More False Count for Less The Side Steal Palm The Side Steal Palm ? Buckley's Method Original Methods of Palming Cards form the Bottom of the Pack Palming form the Bottom After the Riffle Shuffle The Perfect Card Palm The Replacement Buckley's Multiple Card Palm Steal Overhand Shuffle and Multiple Shift Buckley's Double Peek Location Shuffle and Palm Buckley's Top Palm Slide Off Berg's Top Palm The Allerton Top Palm One Hand Top Palm ? Judson Cole Palm Off the Second Top Card While Top Card Is Visibly Drawn Onto the Pack To Palm Off the Top of the Pack an Exact Number of Cards Up to Ten To Palm One or Several Cards The Fan Location The Fan Location Amplified A Novel Palm Changing a Card in the Act of Turning the Card Over The Throw Change Buckley's Method of Double Cutting Cards to the Top of the Pack John Brown Cook's Transfer of a Card Hindu Shuffle and Cut Location "The "Pass" False Shuffle Par Excellence Another Method of Reversing a Card Extraordinary Queens A Different Top Change (mass hypnotism) An Amazing Location One Hand Crimp The Count (Second Method) The Palm Unsurpassed (Original) Bottom Palm of a Single Card (Original) The Top Palm (Improved Method) The Glide Shift CHAPTER TWO Conjuring at the Card Table Foreword False Table Riffle Shuffle False Table Riffle Shuffle and Cut The Push Through Simplified "Cut, Riffle Shuffle and Retain the Top Stock" The Shift and Shuffle Bottom Stock Blind Riffle Retaining the Stock The Switch at Draw Poker The Cut and Use of the Bridge Dealing from the Bottom Restoring the Cut Second Method ? The Drop Third Method Bottom Stock Shift Restoring the Cut (My Pet Method) A Cute False Cut Running Up Two Hands The Hold Out and Pick Up Builds Demonstration Build of Four Aces Using the Buckley Double Cuts A Cold Deck Warmed Up The Practical Sharper Knowing Your Opponent's Hole Card The Spread A Strike (Method of Dealing Seconds) Second Dealing (Black Jack Method) Dealing Seconds (Double Push-Off One Hand) An Original Method of Restoring the Cut (Fourth Method) CHAPTER THREE Manipulations A Vanish of a Card from the Top of the Pack The Bent Fingers Back Palm and Recovery A Back Palm with Open Fingers Production from the Palm A Card Vanishes Push Down Vanish A Card Vanishes and Reappears at the Very Tips of the First and Second Fingers The Change Over The Thumb Palm Move The Slide Up Vanish Fan Vanish A Fan of Cards Disappears A Very Pretty and Deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation The Steal Reverse Palming Without Swi