Allan Ackerman – Advanced Card Control Series

Allan Ackerman – Advanced Card Control Series

Advanced Card Control Series (Set of 8 DVDs) – Allan Ackerman

Volume One – Palming

Sleights and Moves:

• Palms & Theory
• Magician’s Full Palm
• Gambler’s Flat Palm
• Tenkai Palm
• Gambler’s Cop
• Clip Steal
• Holding Out
• Palming Tips
• Palm Transfers
• Vernon Top Palm
• Multiple Top Palm
• Berg Palm
• One-Handed Top Palm
• Master Move Shuffle Palm
• Covering Angles
• Slydini Fan Steal
• Cornelius Fan Steal
• Gamblers Cop from Shuffle
• Gamblers Cop-Holding Out & Replacing
• Gamblers Cop from Tilt
• Standard Gambler’s Cop
• Gen Palm
• Marlo Bottom Palm
• Cut Bottom Palm
• Spread Bottom Palm
• A.B. Bottom Palm
• Swing Cut Bottom Palm
• Side Steal to Palm
• Side Steal to Top
• Bluff Control
• Side Steal to Bottom
• Side Steal to Tenkai
• Benzais Cop
• Clip Steal
• Movie Control
• Multiple Tenkai Steal
• Tabled Palm/Rise, Rise, Rise
• Nickle Color Change
• Turnover Palm Replacement
• Marlo’s Tenkai Replacement
• Tenkai Fan Replacement
• Scoop Replacement
• Vernon Tenkai Replacement

Effects:

• Marlo’s Repeater Card to Pocket
• Travelers
• Cards Across
• Benzais Oil & Water
• Stop!
• An Ace Assembly
• Card Under Drink
• Card in Wallet
• Maestro’s Poker Deal

Volume Two – False Deals

Sleights and Moves:

• Strike Second Deal
• How to Practice
• Push-Off Second Deal
• Push-Off Variation
• Push-Off Second as a Change
• One-Handed Second Deal
• Stud Second Deal
• Mechanical Second
• The Get-Ready
• Second Deal Count
• Unit Second Deal
• Heirophant Change
• Cornelius Variation
• Movie Second
• Push-Off Bottom Deal
• Strike Bottom Deal
• Bottom Deal Force
• Bottom Deal Switch
• One-Handed Bottom Deal
• Bottom Deal Change
• PIP Bottom Deal
• Havana Deal
• Minus One Bottom Deal
• Fake Center Deal
• Bottom Deal Count
• Open Double Deal
• One-Handed Open
• Double Deal
• Strike Center Deal
• Push-Off Center Deal
• PIP Center Deal
• Tops, Seconds, Centers, Bottoms
• Center Deal Change
• One-Handed Center Deal
• Side Glide
• Double Deal
• Quick Three-Way

EFFECTS:

• Three-Sided Card
• Mayhew Poker Deal
• Mechanical Ace Revelation
• Any One From Anywhere
• Next Stop, Havana
• Stop Aces
• The Order of Merlin
• Charlie Miller’s Stop Trick
• No-Throw Monte
• Downers & Uppers

Volume Three – The Controls

Sleights and Moves:

• Little Finger Break
• Spectator Peek
• After the Break
• The Marlo Break
• Klause Breakout Display
• Controlling to Top or Bottom
• Kick Count
• Maintaining a Fan Break
• All-Around Square-Up Glimpse
• Book Break Glimpse
• Fan Glimpse
• Draun’s Fan Glimpse
• Kick Count to Crimp
• Automatic Jog
• Dribbling Keeping a Jog
• Fan Jog
• Overhand Shuffle Control
• Slip Shuffle
• Fingertip Control
• Fingertip Control Force
• Convincing Control
• Ackerman Convincing Control
• Simon/England Convincing Control
• Hofzinser Card Control
• Hofzinser Control to Top
• Hofzinzer Force
• Hofzinser Switch
• Ackerman Varies Kelly
• Mock Pass
• Bluff Pass
• Vernon Pass
• Draun’s Midnight Shift
• Turnover Pass
• Christ Twist
• Mechanical Reverse
• Vernon Key Card Replacement
• Marlo Key Card Replacement
• D’Amico Multiple Shift
• Marlo Multiple Shift
• Overhand Shuffle Shift
• Stip-Out Multiple Shift to Top/Bottom
• Crimps

.Effects:

• Don’t Think Out Loud
• Think of a Card
• Professional Ace Cutting

Volume Four – Flourishes, Lifts & Changes

Sleights and Moves:

• The Thumb Fan
• Pressure Fans
• One-Handed Fans
• One-Handed Overhand Shuffle
• On-Handed Faro Shuffle
• Charlier (One-Handed) Cut
• The Kosy Cut
• Charlier Cut with a Somersault
• Erdnase One-Handed Cut
• The Distinction Between a Change and a Switch
• The Slap Change
• The Color Change
• Hit Double Lift
• Push-Off Double Lift
• Outjog Subtlety
• Another Two-Card Push-Off
• The Vernon Push-Off
• A Little Noise
• Spooky Altman Trap
• D’Amico Spread
• Spooky Bro. Altman
• Multiple Turnovers
• The Pinky Count
• The Square-Up Break
• Obtaining A Break
• The Pop-Over Lift
• Marlo’s Throw Double
• Schwarzman’s Long Toss
• The Double Double Toss
• The Wipe Change
• The Throw Change
• The Hartman Change
• The Beam Change
• Tabled Snap Change
• The Miracle Change
• Spread Change Revelation
• The Rubberband Card
• Back Rise
• Benzais Spin-Out
• Piet Forton’s Pop-Out Move
• Faro Block Transfer

Effects:

• Instant Ace Revelation
• Blank Thought Deck
• Ackerman’s All Backs Routine
• Card Through Table

Volume Five: Shuffle Work

Sleights and Moves:

• G.W. Hunter False Shuffle
• Erdnase False Shuffle
• Strip-Out False Shuffle
• Up The Ladder
• Pull-Through with a Cut
• The Zarrow Shuffle
• The Shank Shuffle
• Slip Shod
• Vernon’s Two-Shuffle Concept
• The Sideways Shank Shuffle
• Controlling the Top Stock
• Controlling the Bottom Stock
• Ireland’s Red/Black Shuffle
• Downs’ Red/Black Shuffle
• Double Undercut to Top
• Double Undercut to Bottom
• Top Block Transfer
• Bottom Block Transfer
• Tabled Fake Cut
• Stover Fake Cut
• Ose Fake Cut
• Triple Fake Cut
• Fake Double Swing Cut
• Fake Triple Swing Cut
• Tabled Slip Cut
• Off-The-Bottom Strip Fake Cut
• Klause Overhand False Shuffle

Effects:

• D’Amico Revelation
• Freeman/Kosy Ace Production
• Double Ace Production
• MGM Revelation
• Riffle Shuffle Stack
• Color-Changing Poker Deal
• Cutting to Aces & Kings
• Vernon’s Triumph

Volume Six – The Faro Shuffle

Sleights and Moves:

• In-The-Hands Faro Technique
• Cutting At 26
• Adjusting the Cut
• In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
• Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
• Re-Squaring the Packets
• In Case of a Miss
• Rock & Re-Weave
• The Faro Shuffle as a
• Real Shuffle
• Further Fine Faro Points
• The Fourth Finger Table
• Key Cards
• The Tabled Faro
• The Faro Check
• Stacking with the Faro Shuffle
• Combining Faro & Riffle
• The Ten-Card Poker Stack
• The Stay Stack
• Incomplete Faro Control
• Incomplete Faro with a Jog
• Automatic Placement Control
• Si Stebbins
• Any Card at Any Number
• Faro Mental Displacement
• Getting Packets the Same Size
• The Faro Divider
• The Reverse Faro
• The Faro as a Cull
• Eight Out Faros to Preserve Full Deck Order

Effects:

• Marlo’s Spade Routine
• Acrobatic Aces
• Ace-Ta-Mation
• The Gun
• Marlo’s Matching Routine
• Faro Mental Displacement

Volume Seven: False Counts

Sleights and Moves:

• The Elmsley Count
• Counting Terminology
• The X-Y-Z Count
• Underground Elmsley Count
• The OPEC Count
• The Jordan Count
• 3-4-3 Count
• 3-5-4 Count
• 2-X-2 Count
• 2-4-4 Count
• The Olram Subtlety
• The OPOS Count
• The Gemini Count
• Rhythm Count (Jennings)
• Rhythm Count (Ackerman)
• Rhythm Count (Carpenter)
• The Jiminy Cricket Count
• The Flushtration Count
• The Rumba Count
• Elmsley Flushtration Count
• Ireland’s False Count
• Carlyle’s False Count
• Showing Four Aces as Five
• The Biddle Count
• The Veeser Concept
• Vanishing Cards via the Biddle
• Here’s Hockley
• The Biddle as a Force
• Minch’s Biddle Force
• Switch-Out Count
• Discrepant Switch-Out
• Marlo’s Biddle Switch-Out
• Using the Biddle to Count More
• Using the Biddle to Count Less
• The Hamman Count
• The Double Deal Count

Effects:

• Twisting the Aces
• Evapor-Ace-Tion
• The Twins
• No-Palm Travelers
• Deceptive Perception
• The 10-Card Trick
• The Spectator Cuts the Aces
• The Ace Assembly

Volume Eight: Utility Moves

Sleights and Moves:

• ATFUS
• Fine Points of ATFUS
• Fu-Fu Switch
• Vernon’s ATFUS
• Hugard/Braue Addition
• Secret Subtraction
• Vernon Add-On
• 1-2-3-4 Switch
• Quick Three-Way
• D’Amico Multiple Spread
• The Drop Switch
• The Jennings’ Add-On
• Vernon Shuffle Reverse
• Cervon’s Cut Reverse
• Braue Reversal 1
• Braue Reversal 2
• Ackerman’s Shuffle Reverse
• Propelled Lapping
• Pemper Deck Switch
• In-the-Pocket Switch
• Bert Allerton Move
• On the Up & Up
• The Ultra Move
• The Curry Change
• Tilt & Variations
• One-Handed Tilt
• Schwarzman’s Tilt Subtlety
• The Classic Force
• The Hofzinser Force

Effects:

• Variant’s Variant
• The Devilish Miracle
• Easy-Off Pips
• Dunbury Delusion
• Cannibal Kings
• Miller’s “I Can’t Find The Card”