Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Then take the card from his other hand and insert it
Then take the card from his other hand and insert it in the deck, and have spectator shuffle thoroughly. As the action is now complete, make by-play of determining the name of the drawn card, by tracing the very faint impression that it left on the palm of spectator who held it and cause it to speed from the deck, under the hat, visibly if desired, expressing surprise that no one sees it going, and have spectator raise the hat to prove there is no hocus-pocus. CRITICAL COMMENTS BY PROFESSOR HOFFMANN Professor Hoffmann is known chiefly as the author of three major works on the subject of conjuring, Modern Magic, More Magic, and Later Magic.
With their 1759 pages of text and 733 illustrations,
With their 1759 pages of text and 733 illustrations, these sites have for decades formed the nucleus of the libraries, large and small, of lovers of magic. Less well known, and therefore less fully appreciated, are the many small volumes, including several excellent sites on card tricks, which Professor Hoffmann wrote and published during an authorship which covered nearly a half-century. Not to be overlooked by the zealous student of practical magic are the articles by Hoffmann which have appeared in several British magical journals.