Secrets of an Escamoteur

2006
Written by Harry Riser
Work of Harry Riser
245 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with drawings by Earle Oakes
Language: English
82 entries
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Teller Teller on Riser
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Michael Close Close on Riser
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Jamy Ian Swiss Swiss on Riser
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Harry Riser Preface
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Harry Riser Chapter One - Travels with Charlie on Charlie Miller
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Max Malini, Charlie Miller The Malini-Miller Egg Bag construction
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Harry Riser The Riser Routine
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Charlie Miller Charlie Miller's Break Handling riffling, elevated dealing position
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  • MUM, Aug. 2001
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Charlie Miller Charlie Miller's Table-Spread Force card thumbed onto table in spread layout with left hand until spectator says stop
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  • MUM, Jan. 1997
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Harry Riser One Left Standing spectator eliminates all cards except one, the selection
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  • MUM, Feb. 1997
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Harry Riser The Inserted Card Control with Countdown spectator pushes card flush, performer pushes reversed Five in deck and selection is five cards down
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  • MUM, Nov. 2001
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Harry Riser On Expert Card Technique & Charlie Miller
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  • MUM, June 2001
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Charlie Miller Charlie Miller's Double Turnover end-for-end
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  • MUM, June 2001
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Harry Riser The SWE Break Double Turnover stud
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  • MUM, July 2001
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Dai Vernon Three Covers and a Nickel Monte
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  • MUM, Dec. 2001
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Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller Vernon and Miller on the Corner Short
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  • MUM, Dec. 2001
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Charlie Miller Charlie Miller on the Second Deal
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  • MUM, Nov. 2002
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Harry Riser Second to None
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  • MUM, June 2005
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Stanley Collins Drop Switch
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Harry Riser Glimpse Count in spread
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Harry Riser Chapter Two - Dreams from Flatland
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Harry Riser The Impossible Dream spectator cuts off pile, remembers bottom card and puts pile in center of rest, card named later, half stack
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  • Ed Marlo Effect
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  • MUM, June 1995
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Edward Marlo Dream Divination spectator cuts off pile, remembers bottom card and shuffles, performer shuffles bottom half (key to bottom and glimpsed), card named
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Harry Riser Gauging the Aces
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  • MUM, Aug. 1996
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S. W. Erdnase Erdnase Bottom Palm Replacement
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Harry Riser Almost Legitimate Cutting the Aces center blocks cut out one-handed
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Harry Riser The Top-Block Slip Cut one-handed, block cut to table from center
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Harry Riser The Descending Card Revisited cards are cased with a block sticking out, all cards slide down except selection in spectator's hand
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  • MUM, Dec. 1985
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Harry Riser The Riser Key-and-Stock Control little-finger break in dealing position, going from there into overhand shuffle, preserving center key
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  • MUM, Oct. 2000
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Harry Riser Cutting Remarks card chosen by cutting, later performer cuts to selection
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  • MUM, April 2002
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Harry Riser Abbott Get-Together Story about Eddie Cochrane
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Harry Riser Behind the Back, One Way out-of-hand selection, performer stabs card reversed next to selection behind back
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  • MUM, June 1991
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Ed Brown Marking Ink specific brand of ink
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Harry Riser One Way to Spell
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  • MUM, March 2000
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Harry Riser The Dictionary Definition
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  • MUM, March 2002
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Harry Riser The Spectator-Management Control
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  • MUM, Jan. 2002
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Harry Riser The Thinner Handkerchief Force using translucent cloth
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  • MUM, Aug. 1996
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Harry Riser The Two-Thirds Deck Trick card cut to and cut buried, card found with reverse-faros
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  • MUM, Aug. 1987
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Harry Riser Shuffle Estimation estimated seventeenth placement during overhand shuffle, a Three used to locate selection
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  • MUM, May 1990
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Harry Riser On Dr. James Elliott
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Harry Riser S.W.Estimation "Self-Working Estimation", restricted estimation, managed estimation
spectator cuts to a card and remembers it in half the deck, Three value used to locate selection
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  • MUM, July 1996
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Harry Riser On J. N. Hofzinser
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Harry Riser Anywhere and Somewhere
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  • MUM, July-Sept. 2002, March 2003
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Harry Riser Chapter Three - In the Land of the Faro using only a single faro shuffle in faro tricks
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Harry Riser Sunken Riser out-of-hands selection, then control with faro
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  • MUM, Nov. 2000
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Harry Riser On the Direct Divination Joke
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Harry Riser The Impossible Faro Shuffle Card Control
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  • MUM, Jan. 2002
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Harry Riser Greek Connection greek break version
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  • MUM, Feb. 2002
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Harry Riser The Ace Goes to the Place reversed card is (faro-)shuffled next to selection
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  • MUM, Jan. 1999
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Harry Riser The Dessoir Stratagem spectator pushes odd-backed card in center, it later locates selection, faro
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  • MUM, March 2005
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Harry Riser Middle-of-the-Deck Location Procedures getting a key card in the center of the deck, faro, four procedures
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  • MUM, June 1998, Nov. 2003, Jan. & Feb. 2004
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Harry Riser Faro Slough-Off Handling
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Harry Riser My Favorite One-Faro Finder
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  • MUM, March 2004
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Harry Riser Orafitse "Esti-Faro", Three value finds selection
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  • MUM, Jan. 1996
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Harry Riser The Alternate odd-backed Joker finds card, then variation in repeat phase, faro
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Harry Riser The Double Shot Location two card location with odd-backed Joker, break work and faro
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  • MUM, May 1995
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Harry Riser Yours, Mine, and Ours three card control, faro
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Harry Riser Colon Ace-Copee spectator cuts two red Aces, those are lost and come together in deck, then they find black Aces, faro
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Harry Riser The Riser-Zingone Four-Card Control four cards put in fan in different spots, bluff spacing and faro
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  • MUM, April 2001
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Harry Riser Four in the Hole Aces lost in deck, a hole card inserted by spectator locates them again, faro
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  • MUM, May 2001
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Harry Riser Ace Controlled to the Nines card control with Ace of Spades shown, then two good hands dealt - Nines and Royal flush, faro
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Harry Riser On Ed Marlo and him working the Treasure Chest magic shop
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Harry Riser Penelopizing spectator cuts to a card and loses it, a previously removed card's value is used to count to selection, penelope, faro
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  • MUM, Dec. 1994
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Harry Riser Spelling Penelope penelope, faro
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  • MUM, Aug. 1995
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Harry Riser Penelope Alter Idem number of cut off packet used to count to selection, involves odd-backed Joker, penelope, faro
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  • MUM, April 1998
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Harry Riser Really Shuffled Matcho three cards matched, faro and three double backers
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  • MUM, Feb. 2000
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Harry Riser Countdown Matcho cut-to selection matched by counting down to a number
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  • MUM, Dec. 2004
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Harry Riser On Richard Himber
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Harry Riser Double Triple Match ten red-backed and ten blue-backed cards mixed together, two chosen, they match and also match a card put in the Himber wallet, repeat phase, SBS double facers
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  • MUM, Oct. & Nov. 1999
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Harry Riser Stay, Stay-Stack, Stack deck is mated in two stages
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  • MUM, Nov. 2004
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Harry Riser Needle in a Haystack card chosen, identity and position announced by performer, faro
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Edward Marlo Faro Jog setting up for Alex Elmsley's faro fan
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Harry Riser Dai Vernon Final Loads Anecdote
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Harry Riser A Real Late-Night Discovery faro
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  • MUM, Sept. 1999, Feb. 2005
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Harry Riser Count value of two face-up cards on table used to count to selection, faros
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  • MUM, May 1998, Oct. 2004
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Harry Riser The Bottom Dealer Folds Ten through King of Spades lost, four hands dealt, some good hands with Royal Flush for performer, faros
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  • MUM, Oct. 2002
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Harry Riser Chapter Four - The Riser Rings
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Harry Riser The Riser Rings three-ring routine, locking key ring
  • Phase One
    • The Inspection
    • The First Link
    • Spinning the Rings
    • The Jack Miller Unlink
    • Passing One Ring Through the Center of the Other
    • Jack Miller's Ring Through Arm
  • Phase Two
    • The Riser Twirl Display
    • A Ring Jumps from Arm to Arm
    • The Patterns
    • Unlinking the Chain
  • Phase Three
    • The Second Chain
    • The Butterfly
    • Rink's Penetration
    • The Illogical Unlink
    • The Shamrock Returns
    • The Ring in the Air
  • Fourth Phase
    • Vernon's Bookleaf Link
    • The Shamrock Variation
    • The Chains
    • The Final Unlinking
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Jack Miller The Jack Miller Unlink
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Jack Miller Ring Through Arm
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J. "Rink" van Rinkhuyzen Rink's Penetration
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Dai Vernon Bookleaf Link
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Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2019.