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Hey, that's not bad, but can I be perfectly honest? Those deck taps in between shuffles? I have never, ever seen them in the hands of anyone but magicians. Gamblers don't do that. Dealers don't do that. Every single time I see it, it's a magician doing it. It's fine if you just want to...

The pass is a tool to either restore a deck to order after a cut, or to bring a certain card to the top, in a move that is so very quick that it is difficult to believe anything has taken place. It can be done with only a moment's misdirection. Framing the pass with 20 seconds of toying with...

Why should one book be better than the other? Both have much value to the serious student and both should be read.

Decks are like $2 and the secret ingredient can be used for many, many decks. It's ridiculous for anyone to say that saving 75% off the commercial cost isn't enough savings. If you do the invisible deck in performance and you're not just a bedroom magician, you'll want to make your own decks.

If you mean that you can't make an invisible deck and that you have to buy it already made, you are more wrong than 2 left shoes. An invisible deck is a gaffed deck. You can buy them pre-made, but you can also take pretty much any deck you want and make it into an invisible deck if you know how...

Bees are THE classic deck for gambling routines and demos. They're not great with magic tricks that use reversed cards, but that's hardly a problem when you're demonstrating stacking, dealing, false shuffling, etc. They are my personal bread & butter card. Even if they're cut the modern way...

Nearly every mention Erdnase makes of the bottom deal is in the context of having known cards on the bottom. He also says: "Bottom dealing is little used with a full deck." As for dealing consecutive bottoms, Erdnase says: "When the bottom cards must be taken consecutively, it is an aid...

Fred Robinson, please. Jack Carpenter has a number of routines in his books and DVDs. Worth tracking down.

The Rakinakis cut is lovely. It's detailed in a Lost Inner Secrets by Vernon under the heading "Vernon multiple false cut". It's also in Fast Company by Damian Neiman, and in the Castle Notebooks, volume 1. However, note that this isn't a straight cut but is meant to emulate a running cut...

Check your video out at 0:17. You're stacking for 4 players, yet your block on the right hand side is easily 3 to 4 times that thickness. Seeing blocks like that is a giveaway that something funny is going on. Your block doesn't need to be that thick, you only need to keep 5 cards stacked (ace...

It's out of print now, but you can still track down copies of "Dice Holdout Methods for Magicians" by Jerry Mentzer. He explains various methods used to control dice when using a dice cup to roll them. George Joseph exposes a few moves in the "Cheating at Craps" and "Cheating at Backgammon"...

No, but then neither are you. I wouldn't assume that because cheats sometimes have partners that Steve Forte would necessarily use a stooge in a magic routine. It's comparing apples to oranges.

Having some idea of the kind of work Steve seeks out and practices, the most plausible explanation is most definitely not stooging.

Sweet! Thanks for that. I can understand the restriction to business hours, but could I suggest you update your support page to reflect that? The exact language from the support and contact links at the top right is "submit a support ticket via the form below for a guaranteed response within 24...

Just a quick and hopefully simple question - is there any way for someone in Canada to get in touch with support during a weekend? I sent an email yesterday using the support form, which says that a response is guaranteed within 24 hours, but I have received no reply save the automated email...

And that's why Jason is a class act. Even after those replies to him, he still is perfectly professional, and he drops some knowledge to boot, too. And after all that, gifts for those who derided him, because he feels he was a bit harsh. Not a lot of people would do that.

Gotta say that it's always interesting seeing people expose their ignorance to their betters. For sure you have a lot more to learn from Jason England than he from you. All this anger and saltiness in your reply makes me wonder what it is you're compensating for. I know that BninroC69's reply...

Good and bad news indeed! I can probably afford to buy the riffle stacking 1-on-1 to tide me over, and then wait for the rest on DVD. Good to know, thanks for the quick reply (this time around :)).

I asked this months ago and never got a reply from theory11. I'd very much like to get a reply now. Jason England has been putting out a good number of 1-on-1 videos. Months ago, you put out a DVD titled "Foundations" which collected a number of the early ones. Are you planning on doing...

Jack Carpenter has some really nice routines. I quite like "Nine Angry Men", where Jack stacks 4 aces for 10-handed draw poker in one riffle shuffle. You can see Jack stacking for 5 players in one shuffle here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVji48skHRA (also check out the rest of his videos...