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I don't know what the "peek muck" is, but some good sources on hand mucking are George Joseph's book Hand Mucking, Tony Giorgio's DVD set The Ultimate Work and Dan Macmillan's book The Gambler's Palm Revisted.

There are a few techniques you could use to achieve this (bridge, key card, or estimation), but standard table procedure would be for the dealer to carry the cut, so it's perfectly natural that you would do this yourself before dealing.

You found the centre deal easier to master than the bottom deal? (Yes, "centre", I'm from the UK.) I would suggest that either you're some sort of unusual savant, or that isn't quite accurate, given that there are very few people in the world who can truly claim to have "mastered" a centre deal...

It is incredible value for money. The cherry on the icing on the cake is a month's access to Ask Alexander. I'm more excited about that than anything else. Now I can be even more of a know-it-all than I am already. Nice!

To my mind, the difference is that a straddle grip gives more stability, and therefore makes it easier to get a clean take with no hangers, enabling a more certain strike bottom deal. A mechanics grip, however, looks more natural.

Ahhh....sorry, I misunderstood.

Scott's deal is a strike second. Did you mean something different?

If you've got his Green Magic DVDs then he performs a double as part of his Windmill/Arc move.

There are two schools of thought on this. Walter Scott thought that the answer was to practice with decks in all conditions, with your hands in various levels of moistness so that you're ready on all occasions. Erdnase and Richard Turner both favour(ed) the use of lotion to keep your hands...

Erdnase had very soft and, probably, very small hands, and he said that, in his bottom deal, the deck had a tendency to slip out of position and had to be worked back into place. Therefore, it may be that the "Expert at the Card Table" would prefer soft, sensitive hands than to build up a...

I've got a couple of points on this topic. Getting somewhere in entertainment is (approximately) 50% talent and 50% networking, i.e. who you know. People who come from poor families and still make it will, on their way up, have made it their business to meet and ingratiate themselves with...

Just on a point of fact, this was filmed quite a while before 7 Deceptions was published, and before Luke was consulting on Derren's show.

The move that Roger Curzon does is Erdnase's "Sixth Method for the Two Hand Transformation", or "Transformations, Two Hands, Sixth Method", or however you want to notate it. Chris Brown clearly states that his technique derives from an Erdnase technique, which I imagine was this one. It's just...

I think that deck could make for some interesting flourish routines. In a rave where the cards were in motion, moving in and out of the blacklight, the faces of the cards would appear to shimmer and vanish and reappear. Nice! I want some!

I doin't know how much experience you have editing photos, so sorry if I'm preaching to the converted, but to get the best result with Photoshop, remember that, as well as cropping and pasting, you're going to have to think about your shadow, and matching your lighting to the background.

The Nexus Product Page - Buy It Here NEXUS BY KEVIN PARKER - REVIEW The Effect A borrowed ring visually melts onto a borrowed keyring, is pulled against the side of the keyring to show it is really linked, then visually melts off. What You Get Nexus consists of a fifteen minute tutorial...

That's an interesting point, but I would suggest that cards in and of themselves are boring, and its up to the performer to make them interesting. Therefore I believe the focus should be the interaction between the performer and the cards. Otherwise it would seem to follow that the focus of a...

I think you mean top and bottom dealing, not second dealing.

As far as easily-obtained resources go, there's a one hand bottom in Erdnase and Expert Card Technique has a few. In the world of DVDs, Richard Turner's The Cheat and Best of the Bottoms have a nice selection.

No. In fact, Erdnase pretty much dismisses the idea, saying the riffle shuffle is only of limited use in stacking cards. The best resources are Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle manuscripts, if you can find them on eBay or direct from the man himself. Alternatively, Richard Turner's Science of...