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No Dai Vernon fans in here? Bump

anyone know what video the excerpt at 43:25 is taken from? Many thanks

Oh, forget it then, it's just like a normal deck of bicycles. It's nothing super special in my opinion unless you really like that all the cards are that nice green

It feels like normal bicycle cards. It's only five dollars you don't really have anything to lose

Confused, what exactly did he predict? Just give a general direction, I'm interested to know if his predictions were a trick too

As far as the prediction - have you ever read or seen the play Macbeth I believe it was? It may have been another Shakespeare play, I can't remember. The point is an oracle makes a negative prediction of a characters future. The character believes in it and ends up making it come true through...

I know there are some good tutorials on YouTube, search for "how to break in a deck of cards"

so I'm assuming most of you have seen or are familiar with the Vernon and his books and the revelations tapes. There's rumors that the inner circle convinced Vernon not to publish or release the best inner circle secrets. So I'm curious, what tricks and secrets would these be if this is true...

I sent a video of me doing the lift to some people and also tried it in person with obvious separation in the cards, though slight, and no one saw anything weird. I'm guessing there's no problem unless it's a magician I'm dealing with

Hi Grant. I completely agree, but perhaps I didn't explain my question in enough detail. I do a one hand push off and I sometimes get some minor separation in the cards as its being dragged over to flip. Just wondering if anyone's had that problem and if it goes unnoticed to spectators...

hello ! Sometimes when I do the double turnover I get some separation in the cards as I'm dragging them over to flip them over. It's not a lot of separation, maybe a couple millimeters. To my eye it's obvious and I am worried I'll eventually get caught. I'm fairly new to performing so I'm...

Am I the only person who has problems with the cards sticking? Like I'll count two cards and end up getting three because two of the cards stuck together. it only happens with older decks, but I generally prefer to use a fairly broken in deck

Kudos, very nice

I guess with new cards it's fine. Old cards though no amount of technique can save you

While the pinky count seems to be a useful move, I must say I am a bit baffled at how many people recommend it. Ive practiced it for a few years now, and I've found that 1 out of 10 or 1 out of 20 times I will end up having counted three cards instead of two at no fault of my own - the cards...

What do you mean you thumb count as you turnover? I've seen Darrells ambitious card and he counts right in front of people and they seem not to mind, I guess they don't really know what's happening

Great replies all around, and thanks for the blog link on the double. Cheers

So can I do a pinky count if the spectators are burning my hands? I can do it without any visible tension in my hands but you can still see the cards slightly popping up in the back. Not sure if that's a tell. I've never been caught, or at least never had anyone say anything, but I'd like to...

I do a snap double when I do the thumb count, a la Darryl. In the ambitious card sometimes there just isn't time to get a break well ahead of time. Even the pinky count can be spotted usually, though obviously much less than the thumb count. Unless,you're so good at it that the cards literally...

Well I agree, I suppose the question is more how do I get the break without people noticing. Is a thumb count sufficient despite the audience can clearly see you counting cards with the thumb?