60 entries in Cards / Sleights / Handling Finesses
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
S. W. Erdnase Mode of Holding the Hand how to hold the hand for poker playing
Related to 1902 104
Dropping a Card on the Floor flat, so it does not turn over
1939 19
The Matchbook Easel using a matchbook as a display stand for a card
Also published here 1940 413
Displaying the Top Card three handlings
1948 37
The Master Aim How to drop a card into a hat without the card fluttering away
1949 12
Dai Vernon To Show the Top Card
1959 35
Karrell Fox Lost and Found matchbook as card easel, wrong card changes into selection when deck is riffled against it on easel
Related toVariations 1960 9
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
1969 55
Herbert Hood Herb Hood's Match Packet As Card Stand No. 404, using a matchbook as a display stand for a card, with Dr. Jacob Daley improvement
Also published here 1972 110
Jerry K. Hartman Turnover Glide Handling of Glide so that you end with deck face down in left hand
1973 13
Edward Marlo Accidental Face-Up Row subtlety, "oh, these should have been face-down"
1974 79
Working Behind Your Back how to minimize arm movement
1978 79
Thickness Concealment Grip
1979 133
Edward Marlo A Ribbon Spread Tip hiding reversed cards under top card in table spread
1980 123
Edward Marlo Hiding Perpendicular Card Under Spread
1980 266
Ken De Courcy Climax how to show a card at the climax of a trick
1980 45
Petrick Display Finesse nice way to display the four aces easel like
Aug. 1983
Apocalypse (Vol. 6 No. 8)
814
Ross Bertram A Tip on Card Handling
  • Picking Up The Deck
  • Picking Up a Single Card
1983 250
Max Malini Malini Shake detail as card is displayed
1985 28
Ben Harris Card Stand card stand torn from another card
1985 21
Roy Walton Walton Show showing face of sandwiched card after blockturnover
1986 19
Larry Jennings, Roy Walton The Jennings-Walton Show
Related to 1986 160
Dai Vernon On the Turn of a Card revealing a chosen card (Leipzig, Rosini)
1987 1
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight
Also published here 1987 9
Karrell Fox Revelation via Matchbook matchbooks as easel
Feb. 1988
Apocalypse (Vol. 11 No. 2)
1460
Juan Tamariz Concealing the card in PP by Bending it TPC
1989/91 37
Alex Elmsley A Bluff Hand-to-hand Transfer while maintaining a break
1991 92
Roger Klause Having Card Chosen from Fan fan should be vertical
1991 163
Max Malini, Howard Schwarzman Malini's Invitation how to have a card selected
Also published here 1992 151
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight card jumps back on the deck
Related toAlso published here 1993 117
Matchbook Easel
1993 179
Joe Rindfleisch A Pretty Ace Display
Oct. 1995
Apocalypse (Vol. 18 No. 10)
2565
Thomas Fraps Dribbled technique for dribbling a deck while maintaining an jog
1998 124
One-Hand Deck Flip simply turning the deck over in left hand
Mar. 1998
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 7)
74
Paul LePaul Flourish a card shows up
Related to 1999 17
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight card jumps back on the deck
Also published here 1999 136
Fredric P. Lamazor M. Random Tools list of various miscellaneous techniques with comments
1999 13
Paul Rosini Revealing a Selection
July/Aug. 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 2)
11
Earl Nelson, R. Paul Wilson Smoking the Deck blowing through an inflated deck to break it in more quickly
Dec. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 4)
73
Bob White Handling a Single Card from "Supplement to Notes"
and on the Flash Double
Related toAlso published here 2003 36
Bob White Handling a Single Card
Also published here 2005 15
Roy Walton Walton Show
2006 278
Tip to pick pile of cards off table smoothly essentially the Howard Schwarzman tip, not credited
2007 4
Jerry K. Hartman Tabling cards from dealing grip small tip to do so smoothly and not awkwardly, also see p. 222
2007 205
Jerry K. Hartman Tabling cards from dealing grip small tip to do so smoothly and not awkwardly, also see p. 205
2007 222
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here Feb. 2008
Genii (Vol. 71 No. 2)
21
Grace Ann Morgan The Camouflage Spread spreading in a less neat way
2009 45
Howard Schwarzman Picking Up the Deck picking up deck from smooth surface
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Feb 3)
41
David Malek Dealing Procedure in Gambling Demonstrations how to speed up dealing for a game
Also published here 2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Apr 28)
129
Dai Vernon, Roberto Giobbi Cutting to a Crimp
2010
Secret Agenda (Issue Aug 24)
254
Roberto Giobbi Change Plane doing selection with faces towards spectator
2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Nov 3)
316
Paul Harris Squiggle Flourish repositioning of four-card packet
2016 86
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2016 23
Allan Ackerman Packet Displacement choreography for transferring bottom card to top in small packet
2019 10
Roy Walton The Walton Show
2019 207
Steve Draun Snap-Back Sleight Card jumps back on the deck
Also published here 2021 67
Jim Steinmeyer Card Case as Card Stand to display cards up-right
July 2022
Genii (Vol. 85 No. 7)
49
Max Malini Malini's Invitation how to have a card selected
Also published here 2022 278
Dai Vernon Into and Out of a Move from private lecture notes by Gene Matsuura
2022 105
Andi Gladwin Hiding Something About a Card showing bottom card of fanned portion while covering part of it
2022 47