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Why use a gambler’s cop when you can use a gambler’s cop? -Daniel Madison

52 Card Pickup is code for: A magician picking up girls (with a deck of cards).

The Vaudeville Deck was just the first to pop in mind after seeing 1920s in your post. I'm pretty sure vaudeville was popular during the 1920s. Never read The Great Gatsby, so not sure what it was about.

Maybe a Vaudeville Deck?

He just performed the Anti Faro perfect for the first time.

Saw a Shin Lim performance

Glad a magician finally won AGT. I think Mat represented magic very well. He's performances seemed to be very natural of him and everything ran smooth.

I believe Volume 1 of Card College has a section on some basic card controls

There's really not a "best" card control. It depends on the performer and their skill level. The double undercut is a good one. I use that control more than others.

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With that much time delay between your last performance and when you reveal their pin code, they will never put two and two together.

Magic in general Lying and Cheating [Just a joke, maybe :)]

I do both. Riffle and faro the deck while it's face down and face up.

Which Hand "When 50/50 chance isn't good enough odds"

Herman Pass "The other guy"

$5 to $500 (back to $5) "For a rich man to appear poor ($5), to then appear rich ($500), to finally appear poor once again ($5), but is still rich (method of trick) while giving the illusion to be poor ($5)."

Thumb Tip "Result of the first magician hitchhiker"

Triumph and/or OOTW "Satisfy audience members with OCD"

Speaking of 4 words that made magicians mad, here's a good example: "I'm better than Erdnase". Of course, that was only half of the quote, but I think those 4 words were plenty lol.

TnR with Gold Monarchs