Plants, Gary

Book

2025
Written by Gary Plants
Work of Gary Plants

33 pages (E-book), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations
Language: English

11 entries

Lecture Notes — Gateway Close-Up Convention (written by Gary Plants, work of Gary Plants, 2025)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Gary Plants	OOSOOM, My Way	with two spectators thinking a card from an eight-card group, no shuffling sequence or double lifts		7	Cards / Sleights / Crimps / Corner Crimp Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Gary Plants	Seven is a Magical Number	three selections vanish, then they reappear face up	Inspired by The Phoenix Four (Brother John Hamman, The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 3, 1984)	11	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location
Gary Plants	Thot Echo Plus One	three card location, straight set-up	Inspired by Thot Echo (Sam Schwartz, The Pallbearers Review, 1974) also in: Thought Echo (The Magic Book, 1977) Thot Echo (Card College — Volume 1, 1995) … and 1 more Thot Echo (Card College Light, 2006)	15	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge multiple Card Location Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Gary Plants	I Know	card chosen and lost, performer cuts to four cards, the added-up values give position of selection		19	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Gary Plants	Mr. Lucky	using Automatic Placement for Tantalizer	Inspired by Maximum Risk (Darwin Ortiz, Scams & Fantasies with Cards, 2002)	21	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Tantalizer Deal
Gary Plants	Cut, Cut, Cut	spectator cuts to three cards and values added lead to selection	Inspired by Down to You (Daisuke Sato, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11, 2018)	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card found at total of Packet or named number Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial
Gary Plants	Gary Plants' Setup for Dai Vernon's Automatic Gambler from Dai Vernon's Select Secrets	same set-up dealt over and over for two players	Inspired by Vernon's Automatic Gambler (Dai Vernon, Select Secrets, 1941) also in: Repeat Poker Deal (The Magic Book, 1977)	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Three-Jacks Deal & Repeat Poker Deal Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Gambling Stack / Partial
Brother John Hamman	The Rook Shuffle	spectator overhand shuffles deck, performer removes nine cards for a 3x3 layout, cards are dealt onto layout with help of spectator (using how a rook moves in chess), red and black cards end up separated		27	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / by Spectator / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Red-Black Stack (not simply divided)
Brother John Hamman	The Cull Spread	sorting strategy to get four-of-a-kind together, packets dropped on table	Also published here done at "New York City Conference" in St. Louis May 27, 1995 Variations Brother John Hamman Cull (Brother John Hamman, Gary Plants, Something Old, Something New, 2023) also in: Gary Plants variation of the Brother John Hamman Cull (Lecture Notes — Gateway Close-Up Convention, 2025)	31	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Miscellaneous
Brother John Hamman, Gary Plants	Gary Plants variation of the Brother John Hamman Cull	sorting strategy to get four-of-a-kind together, packets dropped on table	Also published here Brother John Hamman Cull (Brother John Hamman, Gary Plants, Something Old, Something New, 2023) Inspired by done at "New York City Conference" in St. Louis May 27, 1995 also in: The Cull Spread (Lecture Notes — Gateway Close-Up Convention, 2025) Related to Expertalk: Brother John Hamman on Culling (Brother John Hamman, MAGIC, 2007) also in: Expertalk: Brother John Hamman on Culling (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	32	Cards / Sleights / Culling / Miscellaneous
Francis Carlyle	Classic Force Advice	trying to force every card		33	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Principles Cards / Sleights / Force / Spread Force / Classic Force Cards / Sleights / Force / Spread Force / Miscellaneous Spread Force

Data entered by Denis Behr, April 2025.

Lecture Notes — Gateway Close-Up Convention

April 3-5, 2025, Collinsville, IL