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Like The Cheat, the Gambling Protection Series is excellent for seeing the moves as they should look, performed by a master technician, but it doesn't go into detail on the techniques. This is because it's more to teach you to spot the moves when they're being used on you, rather than teaching...

Isn't asking knowledgable people on a forum research?

I think Richard Turner's The Cheat DVD gives you the most "bang-per-buck" in terms of sheer quantity of moves. However, because it's more of an expose than a teaching resource, he doesn't give the names of the moves, and doesn't go into technique in too much detail. I don't think there is...

It's in his book The Gambler's Palm Revisited, but I think that's even harder to get hold of, so that information's probably useless. Sorry.

I don't think this is something anyone else can tell you. It's all about what feels best for you. As long as you get the key elements in place (natural and relaxed grip, inner left corner pivoting on the base of your thumb, gentle rocking necktie motion, brief that's big enough for you to hit...

Just to clarify one point in that, Derren Brown has never claimed to use NLP. Even on his early shows when he bent the truth a bit and said "What you are about to see is not magic", he never used the term NLP. He left the possibility open by the way he presented his effects, and other people put...

I think one key point about the usefulness of the push-through shuffle, is it provides a grounding in riffle shuffle strip-out technique, which can be applied to many more complex shuffles and used in many more applications than a simple full-deck control.

Up the ladder is always taught with a large brief. The nature of the move is such that successive packets appear to be pulled out of the middle of the deck in a haphazard fashion, so perfect squaredness after each cut can, in fact, detract from the illusion. As with false dealing, rhythm is more...

Yes, Kostya Kimlat's Culligula Triumph, which can be found on his Roadrunner Cull DVD. In this version, the spectators can shuffle, they can drop cards all over the place, change their positions, turn as many as they want face-up or face-down or pretty much do what a heckler would want to do to...

I hadn't noticed this until I watched Jeff McBride's "Art of Card Manipulation" series, where he calls this "the point of indication". I've found a good way to get out of this habit is to read aloud to yourself as you practice the move. If you have a book open in front of you, and you can read...

There are two distinct types of psychological force. One is akin to "Think of a number between one and ten" and guessing seven because that's the most common answer. Banchek's Psychological Subtleties deals extensively with that kind of thing, showing what these predictable answers are and how...

My favourite tabled false shuffle is a bridged push-through (which is different from a pull-through apparently, although explanations seem to vary on what the difference is). I got that variation from Richard Turner's The Cheat DVD, but the basic push-through is taught on pretty much every...

To answer the syntactical question, yes, it should be an "an" because the emphasis is on the second syllable, as in "an hotel". However, nowadays either article is acceptable. On a more on topic point, some of the key pre-20th century magic texts (in print) are as follows: * Reginald Scot -...

If getting both isn't an option, personally, I'd go for Andrus Deals You In, pretty much for the same reason as Amane. However, one issue to consider is, who will you be performing the material for? If it's to fool other magicians, then I would think you're more likely to do that with Mr Andrus'...

Thanks very much Jason, I've got most of those books but there are a couple there I hadn't even heard of so that's really useful.

Hi Mr England. I've got a question about the strike second deal, or more specifically, its history. As I understand it, the move was well known in "advantage play" circles, and was alluded to in print, for a long time before it was actually described. Could you point me in the direction of some...

In The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel by Harry Lorayne, he teaches the Invisible Reverse Transfer, which could be used to accomplish both of these things, i.e. reversing a card and moving it to a different part of the deck at the same time.

I think you'd be surprised how slowly you can do a strike second, with just a slight necktie, and not be called on it. It has to be in the right context, though, and I think CAAN is exactly that. A layman is not expecting a move so they aren't looking for one. They are just waiting for you to...

I presume you've pretty much mastered everything in Erdnase. How long did it take you before you got everything in there to performance level? Can you consistently hit estimation centre deals from multiple positions? If not, can anyone that you know of? Why does everyone teach that you buckle...

Now that Mr England is around, I'd love to see him teach a centre deal (the original Kennedy one, or, if it's allowed, Fred Robinson's). Also, some riffle shuffle work would be really interesting, given that most of the good stuff is in Karl Fulves manuscripts that I never win when they come up...