Scams and Fantasies with Cards by Darwin Ortiz

Details: Darwin is one of the world’s leading sleight-of-hand performers with cards. He’s also the author of some of the most important magic books in recent years: Cardshark, At the Card Table, The Annotated Erdnase and Strong Magic.

Scams & Fantasies with Cards is destined to take its place alongside these others as a modern classic. In this new, hardbound 235-page book he reveals thirty of his finest card creations yet. Highlights include:

• Great new work with a memorized stack. Not just mental effects, but commercial and mind-blowing effects accomplished with your favorite memorized stack.
• Darwin considers The Zen Master one of the most powerful effects he has ever created.
• The Color of Money pushes the classic “Follow the Leader” to a new level of impossibility and impact.
• If you never liked Oil and Water, Ultimate Oil and Water will make you a believer. A show-stopping effect that earns standing ovations.
• In Impossible Conditions, cards turn over while in a spectator’s hands, cards transform while in a spectator’s pocket, and cards travel to your pockets under the closest scrutiny.
• Totally original presentations ranging from the humorous to the suspenseful to the dramatic and poetic.

Darwin has also created some of the world’s strongest gambling routines and in Scams & Fantasies he shares some of his best yet. Imagine allowing the spectators to thoroughly shuffle the deck, then immediately dealing yourself a royal flush (Raw Deal), or producing any poker hand requested (Shark Attack), or dealing out four pat poker hands (Déjà vu Poker), or four perfect bridge hands (The Professional). For the more formal occasion, there is God of Gamblers, a demonstration of false dealing that takes the concept into the stratosphere.

Throughout, Darwin provides psychological insights, presentational angles, performing tips and suggestions based on his extensive experience performing these effects for real audiences. The plots, presentations, methods and handlings are all designed for maximum audience impact. Impossible effects, entertaining presentations, rock-solid construction and performing wisdom combine to produce a must-have book for all lovers of great card magic.

Scams & Fantasies concludes with a new essay on magic theory that shows once more why Darwin Ortiz is the most thought-provoking writer in magic.

Contents:

Page 001 ….. Foreword by Roberto Giobbi
Page 007 ….. Introduction

SCAMS
Page 011 ….. Deja Vu Poker
Page 014 ….. Combination Cull (Corner Crimp)
Page 020 ….. The Brush (Marlo’s Face-Up Switch, Veeser Count, Daryl’s “Rising Crime” Display)
Page 026 ….. Liar’s Poker
Page 034 ….. Shark Attack (Tabled Slip Cut)
Page 044 ….. Raw Deal
Page 048 ….. The Professional (Laurie Ireland Shuffle)
Page 054 ….. God of Gamblers (Strip-Out Shuffle with Block Transfer, Daryl’s Triumph Cutting DispLay, Jennings Stud Bottom Dea1)
Page 066 ….. No Way Out (Push-In Change, Ortiz Bottom Palm)
Page 072 ….. Pocket Money
Page 076 ….. Smart Money (Erdnase Top Palm)
Page 080 ….. Maximum Risk (Sinister Glimpse)

FANTASIES
Page 091 ….. The Last Laugh (Three-Card Catch)
Page 098 ….. Remote Control
Page 102 ….. The Zen Master
Page 112 ….. Hitchcock Travelers (Neal Elias Multiple Shift, Palm Change Stea1, Houghton Pocket Load, Loewy Palm, Marlo Pocket Transfer)
Page 120 ….. The Quick & The Dead (Vernon Top Palm)
Page 124 ….. Fastest Gun Alive (Daley Center Double Lift, One-Handed Top Palm)
Page 126 ….. Cannibal Holocaust (Vernon Add-On (Derek Dingle’s handling), James/Ellis Loading Move, Four-As-Five Count, Carney’s Versa Switch)
Page 136 ….. The New Back Off
Page 144 ….. Ace in the Pocket (Braue Add-on)
Page 148 ….. Darwin’s Ambitious Card (Ortiz Shift, Dingle’s Two-Card Pickup)
Page 158 ….. Ultimate Oil & Water (Underspread Cull, Krenzel Pressure Hideout, Joshua Jay’s Ribbonspread Hideout)
Page 168 ….. Ultimate Fusion
Page 174 ….. Pass the Garbage (Slop Shuffle)
Page 180 ….. The Color of Money (Hamman Count)
Page 190 ….. Walkaround Triumph (Ortiz Biased Pressure Fan)
Page 192 ….. Triple Cross
Page 196 ….. Beat the Devil (Fred Kaps’ Hamman Count Shuffle, The Flushtration Count)
Page 202 ….. Appointment in Samara (Zarrow Addition)

ESSAY
Page 209 ….. Showing or Hiding Skill

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• Publisher: A-1 MagicalMedia
• Pages: 220
• Location: USA
• Edited by: David Maler, Andrew Wimhurst, Jason England, Bill Taylor
• Dimensions: 9″x11″
• Date: 2002
• Binding: hardbound

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