top four cards, square them, flash the Ace at the face of this packet then replace the packet face down back on top of the deck. Give the deck one In Faro Shuffle as you ask your brother magician where this would place the Aces. He will reply, "Every second card". Next very slowly deal the top eight cards, one at a time between your self and your spectator. Here you must get them distracted from the fact that you deal to yourself first. When eight cards have been thus dealt ask, "Who has the Aces?" He should say that you do. With this you add, "You missed my Second Deal". Show
your cards are not Aces and leave them face up on the table. Use the top card of his packet to scoop up his cards. Square them up, flash the Ace as you add, "You have them". Place the supposed ^ Aces face down onto the top of the deck. Onto this place the remaining k cards, (if you wish you can show his packet first, as having Aces,
then later yours). Once more deal out the 8 cards but this time do the deal normally by starting with the spectator getting the first card. When each of you have four cards apiece again ask who has the Aces''& Regardless of the answer pick up your four cards
and drop them onto his. Turn the packet face up and say, "None of us has the Aces -- they are gone". During this you deal the first six cards, one at a time, face down to the table and deal the last two, as one, onto the others. It looks, with the added patter line, as if you showed all the cards. The top card of the tabled packet is an Ace. Use it to scoop up the other seven cards then replace them faces down onto the
top of the deck. With the first 3 Aces every 8th card you can deal out 8 hands of Poker dealing Seconds to hold back the ^-th Ace, to end up with the four Aces. If you prefer, through the use of Riffle Shuffles, with Block Transfers to retain the position of the other Aces, set an Ace into a spelling position. For each Ace you would repeat the Riffle Shuffle as you add the required amount of cards in order to
spell the next Ace. Continue until all have been spelled out or perhaps simply relocated by using Riffle Shuffles with Blocking Off, Block Transfers plus Strip-Outs--Push
Throughs— Shank, Zarrow or Spade Shuffi^«-
FILLING THE HAND
E F F E C T : Performer removes four Aces and places them onto top of the deck. He then deals, one card at a time, the top four Aces between the spectator and himself. With each having two Aces, cardician now deals three more cards to each, hand, again one at a time to make a hand of five cards. Both magician and spectator pick up their hands to see if they bettered their pair of Aces. Cardman say, "I got two p a i r — two pair of Aces!" With this he shows four Aces while spectator has none. Effect is repeated this time
c l early showing each pair of Aces just before dealing them between cardician and specta tor. As before each gets three addition cards to see if the Aces have been bettered. W h e n spectator turns over his (Continued on next page. Note asterik for Step 22)
‘ ‘<L*’rfoHen asking who has the Aces, you should casually do an 'm-T aTO” ol~ rest‘of deck.
This places 2 Aces, that are still in deck, at 8th and 12th from top. After showing no Aces among the two four card hands and replacing to top of deck as per instructions, table deck for Riffle Shuffle. Using only one Riffle Shuffle, get 8^ cards onto top Ace of deck being sure you do not mix in any other cards into those Aces already set. Deal out 8 hands as follows: On 1st round do a Second Deal on 8th card to get first Ace. On 2nd and 3rd rounds deal fairly. On 4th round start second dealing on 4th card to hold back last Ace so it falls into 8th hand. Incidentally, at Step 21 you can avoid the Second Deal by starting the dealing to yourself first.
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hand he has the four Aces to which the surprised card man utters, "Huh?". Regaining his composure he turns his cards over to show he has a Straight Flush which according to Hoyle, beats four Aces.
The first part of the effect, dealing only with the four Aces, I originally performed, at the Knoxville Convention in 19^3, for a group of lobbying magicians. There were two methods for this effect neither of which was easy, but both practical. One method, the harder one, was sent to Jack Avis while the other method I later gave to Piet Forton. Both methods in essence depended on the Mario Two Card Throw and Multiple Throws «Probably
the one that should be credited with the basic effect is Ron Ferris since he did publicly record a very easy and practical method in A1 Sharpe's
"Expert Card Mysteries" - 1969 - under the title of "Royal Aces" on page 82 of that book. The underlying secret move used was the "Braue Addition Move" to set-up the Aces for the deal. Ilmention this because many of the
effects are similar but the underlying method or approach is what makes the difference. The one to be described will take in even a sophisticated card man because of its direct approach and the subleties of the repeat will make it difficult for him to reconstruct any part of the routine.
1) Begin by secretly getting the 3-if-5-6 of Diamonds - any x card and the 7D on top of the deck. Also make sure that the last three Aces of the deck, as it is spread between both hands, will be separated from each other by a few cards before you start the routine.
2) Assuming you have checked the deck and do have the required situation as in Step 1_ above hold the deck face up as you start to spread it between both hands. As you come to each Ace you up-jog it; however, on the 2nd - 3rd - Ath Aces you execute the "Unit Upjog Addition" thus secretly placing an & card behind the 2nd _ 3rd and Ath Aces. To all appearances you have
merely up-jogged A Aces which the left hand cleanly strips out while the right hand holds onto the still slightly spread deck. The left hand places the four Aces, which are held still fanned, to under the face up deck and thus to the top of the deck. If preferred the right hand can sort of toss the face up deck onto the face up fanned Aces in the left hand.
3) Turn the deck face down, squaring up the deck between both hands, then hold it in left hand dealing position. On the top of the deck you have the order of cards as X - Ace - X - Ace - X - Ace - Ace. Say, "I will deal us two Xces each". Here deal the top four cards, one at a time, between spectator and yourself. You will have two Aces and the spectator will get two X cards. Two Aces are still on top of the deck with an X card on top
of them. “ —
k) Deal the top X card to spectator and the next top card, an Ace, to your
self. When the spectator's hand has three cards this is your tip-off that his next or Ath card must be Second Dealt thus giving him another' X card while you retain the Ath Ace which you deal fairly to yourself. If you wish you aan use your hand as the tip-off for the Second Deal. In other words when you have three cards in your hand you know the next card must be Second Dealt to the spectator to retain the Ath Ace for your hand. This is easier than trying to remember at what number to deal the Second. Finish the deal normally until each of you have five cards.
5) Place deck aside. Use top card of your hand to scoop up the four Aces. The packet is squared and placed face up on the table as you ask, "See if you bettered your Aces". Without too much pause say, "I did - two pair - two pair of Aces". Here you spread your five cards downward and to the left which will expose the indexes of all the five cards properly no matter where the other spectators may be sitting or standing.
6) .Then both hands have been turned face up you will note that your hand will have one of the Diamond cards, of the required straight flush, while the spectators hand will have two of these Diamond flush cards. Casually place your Diamond card on top of the deck which left hand has picked up and is holding in a dealing position. Pick up the spectator's two Diamond cards, of the required straight flush, to place these face down onto the top of the deck; however, the left 4th fingertip moves in, at the extreme lower right corner, in order to hold a break below these two Diamond cards. Pick up the spectators remaining three X cards and insert them, from the front end of the deck, into the center of the deck. The left 4th fingertip still main tains its break below the top two Diamond cards.
7) The right hand picks up the four Aces and holding them face up between both hands and sort of against the top of deck, arrange them so that the two Red Aces are at the face while the AC and AS are next, in that order from face to top. The right hand holds the fanned face up Aces, with thumb on the face and fingers beneath, then flips the still fanned Aces faces down onto the top of the deck. As the Aces converge and fall flush onto the top of the deck the right hand follows through by at once picking up all the cards, above the left 4th fingertip break, from above by the ends carrying them upwards above the deck and up to the left thumb and fingertips which now square the sides of the packet. Thus the packet is being squared between both hands which hold the packet well above the deck. Now comes a subtle and direct add on sequence.
8) The right hand alone holds the packet from above by the ends. The left thumb peels off the top two Black face down Aces, one at a time, onto the top of the deck but in a fanned condition off to the right side of the deck. The left hand now turns palm downward to bring into view the fanned AS and AC. The left hand turns palm up again as right hand deposits its cards, really four, onto the top of the fanned Aces. Right hand pushes all cards flush with the top of the deck but the left 4th fingertip obtains a break below these six cards. At once the left thumb deals over the top two cards, the Red Aces, which are taken by right hand, one card under the other in a fanned condition, with right thumb on top at the lower right corners and 1st - 2nd fingers below or on the face of the Aces. The right hand turns inwards to show the face of the two fanned Red Aces. All these actions are done during the simple patter line of, " Two Black Aces - and - Two Red Aces". Right hand now places its two Red Aces onto the top of the deck.
9) The order of cards, from the top down, is two Red Aces, two Diamond cards, AC - AD and three Diamond cards. Deal top card fairly to spectator but do a Second Deal into your hand. This Second Deal is made while the left 4th fingertip holds a break and is not as difficult as it would seem. The
spectator has one Ace and you have one of the Diamond cards. Your patter is, "One Red Ace for you and one Red Ace for me".
10) Here the right hand positions the cards above the break so they are held by the sides'^ above the deck, with the left fingers and thumb. The right hand can now easily do the D'Amico Spread or the Mario Pivot Spread to show the two Black Aces with AS as the big face Ace. The right hand flips both cards, really four as a spread of two Aces, onto the top of the deck. Deal the top two cards fairly between the spectator and yourself as you patter, "One Black Ace for you and one Black Ace for me - two Aces each".
11) At this stage the spectator has two Red Aces and you have two Diamond cards. On top of the deck are two Black Aces followed by the three Diamond cards. Deal the top card fairly to the spectator. Re has three cards and this is your tip-off that you must Second Deal into your hand which will give you another Diamond card and retain the 4th Ace for the spectator. At any rate a^ter the Second Deal into your hand the rest of the deal is fair until each of you have five cards.
12) As before you can square up and turn your hand face up as you say, "See if you bettered your pair of Aces". When he shows that he has four Aces act surprised as you grunt, "Huh!". Spread out your cards. It will be evident that you have all Diamonds; however, since the values are mixed at first glance it will not be obvious that you have a straight flush. You take advantage of this by first saying, "Well I got a Diamond Flush but that doesn't beat four Aces". By this time you also have picked up your hand and are holding the five cards facing you. Now add, "If I remember correctly a three - four - five - six - seven of Diamonds is a straight flush and
according to Hoyle that does beat four Aces". As these lines are delivered the right hand removes each card, in order, from among the five, to place them face up in a row from your right to left to properly display the sequence of cards to the spectator across the table.
Note: In one of the methods I devised a procedure which was quite logical and eliminated the Second Deal in the opening part of the routine. The set up of Diamond cards on top of the deck is the same. In up-jogging the four Aces you do the "Unit Upjog Addition" only on the 3rd and 4th Aces. After the placing of the four Aces, really six cards, onto top of the deck you will have, from top down, X - Ace - X - Ace - Ace _ Ace then the five Diamond cards. Deal the top four cards, one at a time, between the spectator and yourself as supposedly two Aces each. Actually you have two Aces and the spectator has two X cards. Now table the deck for a riffle shuffle. Cut off the top half, with right hand, to the right. Riffle Shuffle so you will hold back two cards on top of each section. Also make sure you do not mix any cards into the five Diamonds cards. Next simply lower the held back pairs of cards so that the two X cards from left hand section -weave in one X card above each Ace. This results in the top four cards in X - Ace - X - Ace order. The Riffle Shuffle just before you deal out three more cards each is logical enough. All you need to do is finish the deal fairly giving
three cards, one at a time, to the spectator and yourself.
The spectator and you will have only one of the required Diamond cards among the other cards. Begin by placing the three cards, from spectator's hand into center of the deck. Next pick up the two Diamond Cards placing them on top but getting your break beneath them. From here show the four Aces as already explained for the repeat of the effect; however, the Second Deal at the very beginning can be eliminated as follows: When it comes time to show the top two Red Aces you also deal over the third card, about a quarter inch or less, over the right side of the deck. The right hand is displaying its two fanned Aces. The face Ace is returned face down to the top of the deck, side-jogged forhalf its width to the right side of the deck,
covering also the under third card which has its right side projecting a quarter inch over the right side of the deck. There is no break held.
The right hand moves up to show the face of the single Red Ace then places this Ace face down apparently under the side-jogged top Ace. Actually the lower left corner of the face down Ace is turned under the projecting quarter inch of the card that is just below the top side-jogged Ace. Once this stepped second card is thus engaged the second Ace is simply slid in below this quarter inch stepped card the action being covered by the side-jogged Ace above it. All that remains is for the cards to be squared. This results in Ace - X - Ace from top down with the X card in this case being one of the required-Diamond cards. These two supposed top Red Aces are dealt between the top Red Aces are dealt between the spectator and yourself. He will get a Red Ace and you get the Diamond card. Go into the D'Amico Spread to show the two Black Aces. Flip them face down and apparently deal one each of the Black Aces between spectator and yourself. So far he has two Red Aces and you have two Diamond cards. Table the deck, as you did before, for the Riffle Shuffle during which you place an X card to precede each of the remaining two
Black Aces; however, you do this with a Block Transfer. Briefly - Undercut the deck with right hand to the right. Riffle Shuffle using either a Shank