Mine are the pretty classic ones. Fav of all is the:

1) 2CM
2) ACR
3) Biddle trick
4) Triumph
5) Daley show and some others small packet tricks i learnt. Forgottent their names hehe.

Im working on some new card magic routines now though... i like astonishing card magic.

Agree with you that those are really simple but with good effect tricks..nice to catch ppl's attention at first sight..but i'm not sure wat is 2CM n ACR..which trick is tat?

2CM == 2 Card monte
ACR == Ambitious Card Routine

my top 5 card trick will be those simpler yet strong effect as well..

1. 2CM
2. ACR
3. Card To Pocket
4. Fish sanwich
5. Thought Force (or any forcing and mental reading)


Just would like to know, how you guys end your ACR ? Mine would be, letting the spec to shuffle the deck, then hand over, and snap my finger. wait for them to turn the first card. Any better idea??

Card in mouth always gets the big suprise ending... i love that a lot! Spec/audiences will just go.... "wat the...." lol :) try it! misdirection is key.

1. CTW
2. Maxi Twist
3. Waving The Aces
4. Oil and Water

You mean u r palming the selection and let them shuffle the card? this is not easy man..esp when u r surrounded by alot of ppl..mine one is let t card get bended in front of them..like how blaine did..

My fav:
1. Hit man
2. Here then there
3. Biddle Trick
4. Lie detector
5. All from one

-Simple and nice-

Hey i'm Greg...daniel's friend! B)
i like:
1) Triumph
2)Chance Zero!? :wacko: the one where the spectator seperates the deck into red and black while the cards are face down
3)Fish Sandwich
4)forces
5)colour changes

Umm just wondering...with the 2CM, whose version do you do?

I started off with Blaine's or Brad Christian's method which work fastastically well. But lately Ive been performing Oz Pearlman's way and style which is just so cool. U can see how he does it in his Born to Perform DVD. Once in a while i will try to vary my 2CM routine...

well, ofcos i dun do that frequently.. and yes, palming is kinda risky.. i normally do this when i'm quite confidence with my spec...tried few times only... my experience with card to mouth is, spec had not enough focus on my deck.. so , they see the card earlier than they suppose to be...

try the palming for once.. and see for the effect itself.. they're go crazy... just becareful...

Hi afoi,

In the ending, I use Pass to really show their card in the centre and with the riffling of the cards, the card ends up on top.

Cheers,
Andrew Loh

cool riffle pass :P. My first pass i learnt was the herman pass and then slowly learn the classic/riffle/invisible pass.

yeah passes are great if or when the spec say hey... i didnt see u put the card in or hey... u blah blah blah, so its a great way to show them it is actualy placed in the middle and then swooosh.... :P

Hi MagicB,

Get the Steven Youell - Hacking the pass CDROM, the teaching of the Mongrel Pass is excellent!

Will meet you and perform to you this Mongrel Pass tomorrow.

Best,
Andrew Loh

looking forward.... ill be staring at ya hands really closely... lol... just kidding. im sure it going to be great. :P

in no specific order:

Non-gimmicked:

1) The Ambitious Card Routine with card to mouth, Daley Leaper, or here and there closer.
2) Hofsinzer Delussion by Paul Harris (If I'm not mistaken)
3) Emerge Triumphant by Oz Pearlman (agan, if I'm not mistaken)
4) Another Quick Coincidence by a magician whose name I don't remember. I saw this performed by Michael Ammar.
5) Changes by David Acer.

Gimmicked:

1) Invisible deck. You know why.
2) NFW. Indeed, if you don't know what it stands for, you just haven't seen it done :)
3) Million Dollar Monte (or Penguin Monte, depends on where you got it from).
4) Presto Printo by Daryl.
5) Svengali deck. Yes this is an old stuff, but try performing it to a layman who's never seen it done before. You'll see their eyeballs swell beyond normal level.

But my most favorite of all the favorites is Dr. Jacob Daley's Gambler vs. Magician. It's an ungimmicked two phase routine which incorporates an element of NFW and traveling cards. When performed correctly with a good patter, this has to be one of the best card tricks there is!

1. Sandwich effects
2. Mental card effects
3. T&R
4. Triumph
5. Royal Flush card effects

Andrew

1. 2 Card Monte
2. Hitman
3. Voodoo Zone
4. NFW(the name sure fits the reaction from specs)
5. Shot Caller

I often perform them as if I did them wrongly, but the reactions in the end is well worth it...N* F****** W** they always say :lol:

I like the idea of hitman, but sometimes, people dont hold it the way u want them to hold and u dont get the desired effect. <_<

how about
1. Classical ace
2. Monte 3.0
3. ACR

These are some of my facourtie which I always use and most of them are in my close-up or storlling performance:
1)Hardcore packet
2)Oil and Water
3)3 Card Monte (It's street monte but with a little surprise in the end)
4)Metal bending
5)Ambitious Card
6)Lesson In Plaming
7)Card To Pocket (I only perform it when I'm wearing slat)
8)2 Card Transposition
9)Card To Box
10)Cannibals
11)Spellbound
12)Re-cap
13)Sponge balls

Wow, Monte, you have a great lists of the effects. ^_^

Currently, my favourites are:

1. Overworked Card
2. Stage Shout
3. The Collectors

Andrew ^_^

I love Aldo Colombini's Collector Routine in his Lasting Impression series. Anyway, I'm glad to say that I'm going to receive his lastest series - The Essential in a week time.

Oh yeah, another effect adds here as my favourite list "Isolator", but this require some faro shuffle technique.

The effects sounds like this, a pack is cut into 3 piles, spectator shuffles the files of cards and notice the top card (2 of hearts) of the pile, performer shuffles the deck, and the cards are divided into 2 piles, when the piles are spreaded, black piles seems in one pile contained the seleciton and meanwhile the other red piles, just contained red piles.

Andrew

i think i am going to say the same thing that i said in the impromptu section. anyways... just read up there... :lol:

same as the product of peguin magic's out of this world... the "chanceZero"