Minch, Stephen

Book

1980
Written by Stephen Minch
Work of Daryl Martinez

115 pages (Stapled), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English

34 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

John Lovick* (Genii, Vol. 79 No. 9, Sep. 2016, p. 90)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Stephen Minch	Introduction: The Puerto Rican Gambler Unmasked	on Daryl and his magic		5	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Daryl Martinez	The Boomeranging Card of Mystery	card is thrown between two selections	Related to The Most Difficult Card Trick in the World (John F. Mendoza, John: Verse Two, 1980)	13	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card is tossed next to Selection
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser	Hofzinser Cull	single card		14	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Spread Cull / for Culling cards to front or back
	Dribbling the Cards			17	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Dribbling
Paul LePaul	Peek Finesse	fingertip convincer		18	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Peek forms
Dai Vernon, Daryl Martinez	Double Peek Control		Inspired by Three Break Control (Dai Vernon, Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic, 1967) Related to Three Break Control (Dai Vernon, Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic, 1967)	19	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Multiple Peek Control
	Boomerang Flourish	brief		24	Cards / Sleights / Shooting & Scaling
Daryl Martinez	The Chicago Conspiracy	Variation One of "Bommeranging Card", non-throwing method	Variations Presto Attracto Card II (Daryl Martinez, Cyber Sessions, 1999) also in: New Millennium World Tour, p. 19	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location
	Chinese Deal			30	Cards / Sleights / Flourishes / Flourish Deals
Daryl Martinez	Quick Silver	Variation Two of "Boomeranging Card", half dollar is thrown between two selections		31	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location
Paul LePaul	Automatic Jog-Control	for two selections		31	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Jog Techniques / Plunger Jog
Daryl Martinez	Tabled Two Card Control	two methods, from injogs		35	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Card Controls / Shuffle Controls
Daryl Martinez	Holding On	between your palms with four-of-a-kind kicker	Variations The Money Card (Edward Marlo, Marlo without Tears, 1983)	38	Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Between Your Palms
	Above-the-Spread Cull			40	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Spread Cull / for Culling cards to front or back
Daryl Martinez	Bluff Pass Handling		Variations Bluff Miracle (Edward Marlo, Marlo without Tears, 1983)	42	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Bluff Passes Cards / Sleights / Force / Riffle Force / Miscellaneous
Daryl Martinez	Tabled Transfer Cut to Bottom	single card from top to bottom		46	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Transfer- & Displacement Cuts
Daryl Martinez	Daley Strike Double Lift Finesse			48	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Breakless
Daryl Martinez	Elmsley Count Finesse			51	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Elmsley Count
Daryl Martinez	The Puerto Rican Triumph		Related to Shigeo Takagi's Triumph (Shigeo Takagi, West Coast Quarterly, 1984) Variations Shigeo Takagi's Triumph (Shigeo Takagi, West Coast Quarterly, 1984) Brainy Triumph (Jamy Ian Swiss, Theatrics, 1987) also in: Brainy Triumph (Theatrics II, 2002)	54	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections)
Daryl Martinez, Harry Lorayne	Delayed Spread-Pass			55	Cards / Sleights / Passes & Shifts / Two-Handed / Spread & Fan Pass
Dai Vernon, Daryl Martinez	Interrupted Triumph Shuffle			58	Cards / Sleights / Riffle Shuffle / Riffle on the table / False / Strip Out
Daryl Martinez	Puerto Rican Cutting Display		Variations Triumph Cutting Display Variation (Harry Lorayne, Quantum Leaps, 1979) Another Triumph Cutting Display Variation (Harry Lorayne, Best of Friends, 1982) … and 5 more	61	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Displays & Finesses
Daryl Martinez	The Mysterious Cross of India	four coins in each hand, no extra coin	Inspired by Coin Routine (Shigeo Takagi, Shigeo Takagi's Coin Routine, 1978) Related to Eight Half-Dollars from an Invisible Purse (Lawrence Nudelman, Money Magic Notes — Volume 6, 1975-1978 ca.) Relentless, But Honest (Curtis Kam, All the World's a Stage, 1982) … and 1 more Variations Cross-Eyed Coins Across (David Williamson, For Your Eyes Only, 1984) also in: Cross-Eyed Coins Across (Striking Magic, 1984) Cross-Eyed Coins Across (Williamson's Wonders, 1989) Ben Seidman's lecture notes, 2008 also in: Change 08 (MAGIC, 2015) … and 2 more	70	Coin / Effect Themes / Traveling / Hand to Hand / Normal
Daryl Martinez	In the Pinch	catching selection with two quarters while spectator dribbles other half	Related to Pop-Out-Move (Piet Forton, Magic Lecture Notes 1984, 1984) Please Don't Feed the Playing Cards (Jay Sankey, Sankey Panky, 1986) also in: Please Don't Feed the Playing Cards (The Definitive Sankey — Volume 3, 2012) Variations Pinched Again (Richard Kaufman, Piet Forton, The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 3, 1984) Please Don't Feed the Playing Cards (Jay Sankey, Sankey Panky, 1986) also in: Please Don't Feed the Playing Cards (The Definitive Sankey — Volume 3, 2012) … and 2 more	80	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Grabbing Cards / Fishing Card out with two Cards
Daryl Martinez	Double Lift Handling	to retain break after turnover	Related to The Double Turnover (Daryl Martinez, Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus, 1985/87) Another Double Turnover (Card College — Volume 2, 1996)	82	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Top / Break
Piet Forton	Pop-Out Move			84	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Two-Handed
Ross Bertram, Edward Marlo, Daryl Martinez	Pivot Change Handling	at table, with clean up		89	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Without Deck / Tabled & Mucks
Daryl Martinez, Harvey Rosenthal*	Pop-Up Move	with credit information on page 91		92	Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses
Daryl Martinez	Conditional Assembly		Variations Carribean Assembly (Jon Racherbaumer, MO — Modus Operandi, 1995)	94	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Classic
Derek Dingle, Jerry K. Hartman	Secret Subtraction Variation			95	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using the Deck
Daryl Martinez	False Index Display	Ace of Hearts as Ace of Diamond		98	Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate
Daryl Martinez	Twisted Aces Redivivus	last Ace vanishes and reappears reversed in deck	Inspired by Twisted Aces (Daryl Martinez, Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets, 1976) Related to Exitwist (Philip T. Goldstein, Frank Thompson, MajorMinor, 1983) also in: Exitwist (Focus, 1990) Twisted in the Middle (Larry Jennings, The Cardwright, 1988) … and 2 more Variations Exitwist (Philip T. Goldstein, Frank Thompson, MajorMinor, 1983) also in: Exitwist (Focus, 1990) Twisted in the Middle (Larry Jennings, The Cardwright, 1988)	105	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Twisting the Aces / Kicked Twisting the Aces
Brother John Hamman, Daryl Martinez	Two-as-Four Count / DM Count	only two backs used to count four cards		109	Cards / Sleights / False Display / Hiding Surfaces
Daryl Martinez	False Pip Display	Ace of Hearts poses for Ace of Diamonds		114	Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Pseudo & Impromptu Duplicate

Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2006.

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