Impromptu Holdouts

New approaches to the problem of sleeving and retrieving playing cards

Book
1977
Written by Karl Fulves*
Work of Karl Fulves*
50 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt
Language: English
41 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Karl Fulves* Not Your Ordinary Introduction sleeving and retrieval from the sleeve
 		1
Karl Fulves* A History Of Sorts sleeving cards
 		2
Karl Fulves* Secret Sleeving for shirt sleeve, fan cover
  • Notes On The Handling
  • Applications
Related to
 2
Karl Fulves* The Drop Point card selected from blue-backed deck, red-backed duplicate in other deck found, it then has signature, sleeving
Related to
 6
Karl Fulves* Spectators Suspecting Sleeving
6
Karl Fulves* Dumping The Gaff sleeving for clean-up
 		8
Karl Fulves* Psi/bernetics clean vanish of a selection, sucker element, sleeving
 		8
Karl Fulves* 5-Card Mental Force Vanish card vanishes
 		10
Karl Fulves* Evilopes five cards and envelopes, spectator paper clips one card, all in envelopes, selection vanishes from envelope leaving clip behind
 		10
Karl Fulves* Scram value named and four-of-a-kind removed, chosen one vanishes cleanly and reappears in sealed envelope, sleeving
 		11
Karl Fulves* Multiple Card Loading sleeving a block of cards
 		14
Karl Fulves* Premium Poker five selections are promised to be hole cards in stud poker deal, however they appear from pocket instead, sleeving
 		14
Karl Fulves* Fail/Safing The Experts how to practice something for fooling experts with it, example sleeving
 		16
Karl Fulves* Other Sleeving Methods chapter intro
 		18
Karl Fulves* Insta-Sleeve from bottom placement position, also as add-on
 		19
Karl Fulves* Hank Tunnel addition from sleeve with handkerchief cover
 		19
Karl Fulves* Oblivion loading into shirt (between buttons)
 		20
Karl Fulves* Works With Black free selection from blue-backed deck travels reversed into red-backed deck
 		21
Karl Fulves* Limbo named four-of-a-kind vanishes from deck, sleeving
 		22
Karl Fulves* Boggled card vanishes with fun sucker presentation about the spectator taking a card from between the aces and pushing it magic thrust like between to aces, sleeving
 		23
Karl Fulves* Part Two on card retrieval from sleeve
 		25
Karl Fulves* The Impromptu Holdout wristwatch, two methods
 		25
Karl Fulves* The Exit Move card retrieved from sleeve to bottom as another card is pushed in deck from back
Related to
 27
Karl Fulves* Premonition I red and blue deck, named one is missing from wanted deck and in other one, sleeving
 		31
Karl Fulves* Premonition II same effect as Premonition I
 		32
Tony Slydini Any-Card Cull
Related to
 32
Karl Fulves* One-Deck Prizewinner sleeving
Inspired by
 32
Karl Fulves* Soliloquy single card on table turns out to be later signed card, sleeving, see also top of p. 36 for lapping method
 		33
Karl Fulves* Sleeving Switch
33
Karl Fulves* Negative Sleeving card lapped via Secret Sleeving technique
Related to
 35
Karl Fulves* Exit Left variant handling of Exit Move for left sleeve
Related to
 36
Karl Fulves* Topping The Aces spectator shuffles deck, performer gives one cut and aces are reversed in center, sleeving
 		38
Karl Fulves* Recalled top card of one half changes into named Ace when covered with fanned other half, other three Aces vanished, sleeving
 		39
Karl Fulves* Other Techniques
40
Karl Fulves* Non-Square Loading sleeve retrieval
 		40
Karl Fulves* Stop At Nothing selection shuffled back and number named, there appears a blank card and selection is gone
 		42
Karl Fulves* Undercover Loading sleeve retrieval
 		44
Karl Fulves* Prepare To Die chosen card shrinks in deck, devil's pack presentation
 		45
Karl Fulves* Other Applications of sleeving
  • Hofzinser Ace Problem with Aces in spectator's pocket
  • Rising Card Hook-up
  • Sticky Tape at outside of Sleeve
  • Sleeving into Envelopes
 		47
Karl Fulves* A Child's Garden Of Problems twelve card problems in connection with sleeving
 		48
Karl Fulves* Coin Sleeving with Card
50
Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2016.