Giobbi, Roberto Giobbi: Card College 3

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Contents:

Foreword
Words for Enthusiasts
An Enticement to the Introduction
Contents
What Is in These Books?
The Principle of Reading Satisfaction
Principles Rather than Techniques
The Study
Trust
Intellect, Intuition, and Inspiration in Practice
The Sensuality of Card Magic
Gestalt
What Else?
The Prop as Instrument
Simplicity
Selecting the Right Trick
The Iceberg
The Secret
Some Comments on Terminology
Reactions to Date
Absolute Versus Relative Frames of Reference
Card College References
Chapter 28: Assorted Techniques and Refinements
The Biddle Steal
Counting Cards in a Fan
Counting Cards While Spreading Them Between the Hands
Setting Multiple Key Cards
The Spin Revelation and Display
The Vanish of a Card
The Bluff Cut
Holding Back a Card in the Card Case
The Transfer Move
The K. M. Move
The Vernon Addition
Tricks with Assorted Techniques and Refinements
The Invisible Card
The Four Seasons
Chapter 29: Techniques with Breaks, Steps and Injogs
Techniques with the Break
The Dribble Break
The Crocodile Technique
Transferring a Break from the Little Finger to the Heel of the Thumb
Inserting a Card into a Break
The Erdnase Break
Techniques with the Step
Ribbon Spread and Step
A Spectator Holds the Step
Fan and Step
Techniques with the Injog
The LePaul Automatic Jog-control
The Drop Jog
The Diagonal Insertion and Fan
An Injog Handling
Injog and Step After the Cut
General Reflections on Injogged Cards
Tricks with the Break, Step and Injog
The Master Grip
Remember and Forget
Chapter 30: Card Controls, Part 2
The Convincing Control
The Bluff Pass
A Direct Overhand Shuffle Control
The Logical Control
The Spread Crimp
The Bridge Control
Refinements and Final Thoughts
More Tricks Using Card Controls
A Sure Bet
Ambitious 1-2-3-4
Chapter 31: The Double Lift, Part 3
The Push-over Double
A Double Lift from the Center
Small Packet Double Lift
The Optical Replacement
The Turnover Replacement
The Vernon Replacement
A Double Lift Finesse
More Tricks with the Double Lift and Turnover
The Palindrome Cards
The Time Machine
Rise and Switch
Chapter 32: False Display Counts, Part 2
The Ascanio Spread
The Ascanio Spread Fan
The Open Display
The Olram Subtelty
The Gemini Count
The Over-count
The Multiple-lift Display Sequence
The Flushtration Count
Displaying All the Cards as Identical
The D'Amico Spread
More Tricks with False Display Counts
The Strasbourg Waltz
Set-reset Plus
The Dance of the Cannibals
Chapter 33: Riffle Shuffle Techniques, Part 2
The Zarrow Dynamic
The Zarrow Shuffle
The Direct Zarrow Shuffle
The Pull-through False Shuffle
Vernon's Pull-through Shuffle Variant
The Triumph Shuffle
A Combination False Shuffle
Controlling the Top Stock with a Riffle Shuffle
A Combination False Shuffle and Cut
The Block Transfer
A Red-Black False Shuffle
An In-The-Hands False Shuffle
More Tricks with Riffle Shuffle Techniques
Triumph
Dad Stevens, King of Card Cheats
Chapter 34: The Multiple Shift
The Insertion of the Cards
Swing Cut Multiple Shift
Bluff Multiple Shift
The Vernon Multiple Shift
Cardini's Overhand Multiple Shift
Carney's Natural Multiple Shift
The Simple Shift
The Tabled Multiple Shift
A Trick with the Multiple Shift
The Vanishing Deck
Chapter 35: The Faro Shuffle
The Partial Faro
The Faro Slough-off
The Perfect Faro
The Incomplete Faro Control
Faro Types
The Mathematical Basis of the Perfect Faro Shuffle
Mathematical Principles
Tricks with Faro Techniques
The Acrobatic Aces
The Two Detectives
Numerology
Chapter 36: Advanced Palming Techniques
The One-handed Palm
The Gambler's Cop
Management Strategies for the Gambler's Cop
Replacing Cards in Gambler's Cop Under the Deck
The Transfer Palm
The Loewy Palm
The Left-hand Bottom Palm
The Right-hand Bottom Palm
The Right-hand Bottom Palm of Multiple Cards
Norman Houghton's Pocket Extraction
Producing a Card from Your Inner Left Jacket-pocket
Producing a Card from Your Inner Right Jacket-pocket
Replacing Palmed Cards on the Bottom of the Deck
More Tricks with Palming
The Card in the Glass
The Open Prediction
Chapter 37: Color Changes
The Side-slip Color Change
The Slap Change
The Wave Change
The Houdini Color Change
The Flip-flop Change
The Fadeaway Card Change
Final Thoughts
Tricks with Color Changes
Through and Through
Holy Smoke!
Chapter 38: The Side Steal and Diagonal Palm Shift
The Side-steal Transfer
Covers for the Side Steal
The Side-steal Bottom Placement and Variations
The Side-steal Palm
The Simplified Side-steal Palm
The Diagonal Palm Shift
The Convincing Control Palm
Tricks with the Side-steal Transfer and Palm
Picnick at the Summit
The Return of the Phantom
Bibliographic Notes
Index