Description

Impressionistic Poker Demos is the follow-up book to Justin Higham’s Pseudo Cheating Demos and Effects. The first part of the book further explores Spread-Count Stacking, a way to stack the Aces or a full house/royal flush to a desired number of hands using combinations of spread-counts. The idea is to get away from standard stacking methods, although several pseudo stacking effects are described which make minimal use of techniques such as Riffle Stacking and Overhand Stacking.

Also included is a Frank Lane style poker deal in which the spectator deals any small number of poker hands, yet the performer ends up with a royal flush (no palming, switching, etc.). Other items include impromptu blackjack demos, a spectator-shuffled full-house deal by Dylan Holmes, ‘Pick-Up Restacking’ by Ben Earl (4 methods), and a previously unpublished Bottom Deal for beginners by Edward Marlo. The section on ‘100% Poker Deals’ follows on from The 75% Production in showing how to take a borrowed, shuffled deck and almost immediately deal yourself (or the spectator) four of a kind or a full house. At the end of the book are comments on the items in Pseudo Cheating Demos with further ideas and methods explained.

Includes:

More Spread-Count Stacks

Spread-Count Poker 3

Spread-Count Poker 4

Spread-Count Poker 5

1-5-4 Poker

1-5-4 Pseudo Overhand Cull-Stack

1-5-4 Blackjack (2 versions)

Spread-Count Hold ‘em

Split Pick-Up Spread-Count Stacks (5 versions)

The Spread-Separation Concept

Spread-Separation Cull-Stack

Seven-Card Full-House Combination Cull

Making the Rounds (Dylan Holmes)

Frank Lane Returns

Hold-Out Hold ‘em

Pick-Up Restacking (Benjamin Earl) (4 methods)

Spread-Loaded Pseudo Centres (2 methods)

Spread-Loaded Overhand Stack

Four Fantastic Centres

Basic Bottom Deal (Edward Marlo)

Extended Face-Up Poker Plus Sucker Hand

A Switch on the Three Jacks

100% Poker Deals

The Ghost of Rakinakis

Other 100% Poker Deals

Alternatives for the Streamlined Overhand Cull-Stack

Prefigured Poker Deal

Performer Fiddles While Spectator Burns

Appendix I: Sav on the Full-House Deal – An Object-Lesson in Creating Meaning, Context and Presentation

Appendix II: Notes on Pseudo Cheating Demos and Effects

Aside from the items explained in the Appendix, this book can be read alone without having read Pseudo Cheating Demos and Effects.