Card Control: Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments

by Arthur H. Buckley

A famous card expert demonstrates tricks that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used profitably. It is not a book for beginners. But these shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, steals and spectacular deceptions will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance. Over 300 photos. .

Genres: Magic

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 22, 1993

Reviews

[Hots Hartley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely hard to read. All these card tricks and techniques chained together without proper introduction, division, sequencing, or logic.

Despite intense interest in learning card shuffling tech, I fell asleep reading most of these. Arthur Buckley should introduce each technique with better context, like "You would use ____ tech when you want to _____."

Instead, he dives into each intro without any motivation or any description of the result, straight-up stating steps in physical terms and esoteric language. I was lost two or three sentences into most sections, not knowing what I was aiming to do or why -- and in what context -- I would use each technique. The only way I'd practically know when to use each technique would be to proceed through this book linearly, one by one, following each step to figure it out myself.

Nobody has that kind of time.

[ABRAHAM CORONADO · Rating 5 out of 5]

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