Hi! I am Joe Marshal with expertvillage.com.
I am a professional magician, and today we
are going to go over some basic magic tricks.
When somebody hands you the pack, you have
to get into the setup position, which is that
just flipping the bottom card over. And it
is important to make sure they do not see
that so you just want to hold the deck, this
level, because if you are just talking to
somebody casually, and they happen to glance
by the sides of it, the jig’s pretty much
up. So to get into this position, when somebody
hands you a deck of cards, you can say there
is numerous ways, one you can just walk away
and turn it over and come back, you can say
I need to check, check this deck here to make
sure you have no jokers or anything, and as
you are doing that just flip it over and come
back. If you want to do it in front of him,
the best way to do it, is to push that card
off with your thumb; and as this hand comes
forward, and you are talking to them, just
flip it over as is the motion of looking up,
like you guys want to see a trick, and as
you look up they are going to look up a second
after you, and that is when you want to just
to turn it over. It is no big deal. Even if
people see it, they probably really do not
know that you are doing it anyway; and they
do not relate it to the tricks. So do not
worry too much about that part, just get into
setup without anybody seeing, and you are
good to go from there.
