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Just to add some bonus information, Dai Vernon and Doctor Daley were the ones who brought the move into common usage, and the term "double-lift" was invented by Annemann.

There are a few different controlled shots you can do with dice, even when they bounce off a surface. It makes it more difficult, but it certainly can be done. Just don't win too often in the same casino.........

They don't have to be perfectly squared when you push them off, but your turnover action should align them. As long as the push-off and turnover is one smooth motion it'll look fine. In addition, when you turn the double over, it shouldn't be gripped by the right fingers, it should just be...

And as a side-effect of the promotional campaign, it's got everyone thinking of possible methods, and I'm sure there'll be quite a few new moves created as a result. It's all good.

I echo MoonlightKnight's comments. Don't just concentrate on learning trick after trick. Stick with the ones you know already and practice them to the point where you could do them in your sleep. That means you can build up the presentation and showmanship side until your getting huge reactions...

I think you may be right......unless you use it as a stepping stone to the estimation centre deal, which has almost unlimited uses. However, I see the centre deal as a kind of a rite of passage and fundamentally an end in itself for a sleight-of-hand artist.

Guy Hollingworth's demonstration is fake only in that he doesn't use the conventional card table centre deal technique. He uses Martin Nash's multiple-location deal. However, in his demonstration, when he says he's dealing the four aces from four different parts of the deck, he's telling the...

Just for the acronym junkies, the first phase of Pandora is a cut called TCTEESA (The Cut That Everyone Else Sucks At).

I generally use them for practicing stuff that involves substantially bending the cards, like productions, springing, etc. I also find that if a deck feels like it's too soft and worn out, if you leave it in a cool environment for a couple of weeks then it regains some of it's "snap". I've never...

The best resources on centre dealing that I personally own are Ed Marlo's "Seconds, Centres and Bottoms" book (also published in the compiled book "Revolutionary Card Technique"), Allan Ackerman's "Advanced Card Control Volume 2: False Deals" DVD, and Richard Turner's "The Cheat" DVD. There are...

I can't really say who's the "best", but I can certainly tell you who my favourites are. Close-up sleight-of-hand is my passion, so my number one choice is Lennart Green. He's amazingly creative with his sleights and effects, as well as being a hugely entertaining performer. I also have to...

By all accounts Houdini was a very impressive and exciting stage magician, by virtue of his brilliant showmanship and flair for publicity, but he wasn't particularly innovative, in that he generally adapted techniques of others rather than inventing his own. Neither was he unusually adept at...

It's on his website (www.derrenbrown.co.uk) under Products, then you have to answer a question to get into the magicians' section.

Sorry to be noob-esque, but what's The Code?

PjPinsonnault, while you're right in many ways, even if you discount a lot of NLP's claims, I think that a knowledge of them can be useful. If, for example, you want to present your audience with a false, but plausible explanation, in the same way that Derren Brown does. In the same way that...

I have to say, I tried to learn the move from Erdnase, but I didn't really get it properly until I watched Carney on Palming. If you have trouble with The Expert at the Card Table, then that's the route I'd recommend.

The psychology and thinking at the root of NLP is pretty much sound, but the claims that are extrapolated from that are a bit over-the-top. Some of the writing on NLP seems to view it as some kind of superpower that can give you almost paranormal control over yourself and those around you. I...

Yeah absolutely. Pretty much everyone who plays with cards has stumbled across ideas that they think are original, and then later turn out to be claimed by someone else (usually Ed Marlo...and a lot of his "inventions" are open to question). However, if someone publishes something and claims it...

There's some good work on the gambler's cop on Richard Turner's Double-Signed Card Routine DVD, but the best source for an overview of loads of palming techniques, including a lot of gambler's cop stuff, is Allan Ackerman's Advanced Card Control Volume 1 DVD.

Suggestion effects are really not that difficult. If you're comfortable and confident performing for people, and have the ability to build rapport (as we all should have if we entertain with magic regularly), then the techniques of suggestion and persuasion will flow naturally from that...