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John Raff M
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Republic of Ireland
179 Posts
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Posted: Apr 1, 2012 10:59am
Does anyone know some good marathon card tricks? The only one I know is A Three Card Routine by Derren Brown. Any one know any others?
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puggo
Inner circle
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Posted: Apr 1, 2012 12:25pm
John
Is this not more of a card set rather than a marathon card trick? Are you looking for things with callbacks?
While quite short by comparison, cocktail dazzler by David Williamson springs to mind.
Charlie
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John Raff M
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Republic of Ireland
179 Posts
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 2:09pm
Thanks Charlie I'll check that effect out.
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BarryFernelius
Inner circle
Still learning, even though I've made
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 2:33pm
I put together a marathon Ace routine, loosely based on a series of Norse legends. The routine has 366 phases, one for each day in a leap year. It takes about 15 hours to perform, and it's synchronized to the music from Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Mercifully, I've never actually performed it. 
"I don't teach people stories about the coyote for them to tell. I AM the coyote. They tell stories about me."
-Pop Haydn
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John Raff M
Regular user
Republic of Ireland
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 2:40pm
Never? Shame.
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Juble
Veteran user
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 3:49pm
Ten Nights in a Cardroom - Stewart James
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John Raff M
Regular user
Republic of Ireland
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 4:19pm
Cheers man I'll look it up.
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kentfgunn
Inner circle
Tampa FL
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Posted: Apr 11, 2012 4:45pm
I briefly considered adding Barry's trick to my performances. Then I remembered I hate Wagner.
So, instead I whipped up this beast of a card trick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLCQAyPDhvM&list=UUNWPWtCi6HAL9vzoIDT-lzw&index=4&feature=plcp
To give it even more gravitas I perform it with over-sized cards.
KG
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John Raff M
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Republic of Ireland
179 Posts
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Posted: Apr 12, 2012 11:52am
LOVE IT! Great idea. Fantastic pacing.
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Juble
Veteran user
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 2:53am
I thought that was absolutely BRILLIANT Kent! It didn't seem that long as I enjoyed it so much - please make a longer one next time!
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j100taylor
Elite user
471 Posts
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 8:40pm
Also by Stewart James - "The Robot Deck" I think I counted over 30 phases - some of them really stunning. Its fun if you throw in a lot of false shuffling. I am currently having a lot of fun with this (considering memorizing the stack as my mem deck)
Lakewood, Ohio
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Steven Keyl
Inner circle
Washington, D.C.
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 9:26pm
Allan Slaight's "The Eclectic Deck", Ibidem Volume III, page 765.
Effect: With an ordinary deck which is continually shuffled by both magician and spectators, seventeen effects are presented, ranging from sleight-of-hand demonstrations to mental discoveries to a gambling display. The only essential sleights are DL, Hindu Shuffle and false cuts.
When reading through it I remember thinking there's no way I'd ever remember the whole routine. I'd be curious to find out if anyone on this forum has actually ever performed it.
Steven Keyl
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ilmungo
Loyal user
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 11:20pm
Michael Vincent has a couple, all good. One is an ace-focused series that begins with a spectator cuts the aces, proceeds to an ambitious routine, a collectors plot, and ends with his version of Cy Enfield's Aces for Connoisseurs.
The other is a great fasdiu sequence, easily 15-20 minutes of solid card magic; each phase sets up for the next, it's a thing of beauty.
Cheers,
Luigi
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helder
Special user
536 Posts
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Posted: Apr 14, 2012 7:18am
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On 2012-04-13 23:20, ilmungo wrote:
Michael Vincent has a couple, all good. One is an ace-focused series that begins with a spectator cuts the aces, proceeds to an ambitious routine, a collectors plot, and ends with his version of Cy Enfield's Aces for Connoisseurs.
The other is a great fasdiu sequence, easily 15-20 minutes of solid card magic; each phase sets up for the next, it's a thing of beauty.
Cheers,
Luigi
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What fasdiu sequence are you talking about?
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MagicJuggler
Special user
Anchorage, AK
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 7:29am
The Card the Forehead and the Saltshaker is a very nice nine phase routine. It's also a post-graduate course in misdirection. It's by Michael Close. It's in his Worker's books and videos, I suggest both the books and the video to learn the trick as proper timing is essential and it's hard to figure out timing in a book.
Matthew Olsen
www.mattolsenmagic.com
I heard from a friend that anecdotal evidence is actually quite reliable.
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Ruairidh
Regular user
London
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Posted: Apr 16, 2012 8:37am
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On 2012-04-13 23:20, ilmungo wrote:
Michael Vincent has a couple, all good. One is an ace-focused series that begins with a spectator cuts the aces, proceeds to an ambitious routine, a collectors plot, and ends with his version of Cy Enfield's Aces for Connoisseurs.
The other is a great fasdiu sequence, easily 15-20 minutes of solid card magic; each phase sets up for the next, it's a thing of beauty.
Cheers,
Luigi
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On one of the recent DVDs presented by Alakazam, he performs a sequence for the presenter Chris from a borrowed shuffled deck that could last as long as you wanted it too. It's a culling masterclass.
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John Raff M
Regular user
Republic of Ireland
179 Posts
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Posted: Apr 24, 2012 6:31am
Thanks for the jelp guys.
Cheers,
John
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Frank Starsini
Eternal Order
Northern California
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Posted: Apr 24, 2012 1:15pm
Well Done, Kent. I really enjoyed it!
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ilmungo
Loyal user
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Posted: Apr 24, 2012 10:04pm
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On 2012-04-14 07:18, helder wrote:
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On 2012-04-13 23:20, ilmungo wrote:
Michael Vincent has a couple, all good. One is an ace-focused series that begins with a spectator cuts the aces, proceeds to an ambitious routine, a collectors plot, and ends with his version of Cy Enfield's Aces for Connoisseurs.
The other is a great fasdiu sequence, easily 15-20 minutes of solid card magic; each phase sets up for the next, it's a thing of beauty.
Cheers,
Luigi
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What fasdiu sequence are you talking about?
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I think it's in the third set, in a section called something like "A final conversation". He starts talking about the importance of being able to work with a borrowed deck, and then proceeds to demonstrate and teach a long sequence that starts with the selection of a card with a peek, and goes on to include a "numero uno" type approach, then Vernon's matching the cards, etc. Brilliant stuff.
Luigi
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Poof-Daddy
Inner circle
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Posted: Apr 25, 2012 2:20am
If I feel the need to fill time ie "marathon" I always fall back on an ambitious card routine that can be slammed over and over and over and over with the thousands of revelations avialible to keep it jumping.you can even intermingle the effect with a myriad of tricks that the ambitious card can be a part of making it fall even more into play. Let your imagination be your guide
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helder
Special user
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Posted: Apr 25, 2012 5:35pm
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On 2012-04-13 23:20, ilmungo wrote:
Michael Vincent has a couple, all good. One is an ace-focused series that begins with a spectator cuts the aces, proceeds to an ambitious routine, a collectors plot, and ends with his version of Cy Enfield's Aces for Connoisseurs.
The other is a great fasdiu sequence, easily 15-20 minutes of solid card magic; each phase sets up for the next, it's a thing of beauty.
Cheers,
Luigi
Watch this today. That´s a great sequence. Love it.
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