Hardcore Card Session - Derek DelGuadio & Jason England
September 27th, 2008 by Richard MorrellThe aim of this workshop was to encourage thinking about the use of hard sleight of hand in card magic. Jason started off by demonstrating some fairly basic but underused false shuffles, with some great tips from him and Derek on the Jog Shuffle, Jason demonstrated a version of the Marlo Gardner poker deal and Derek demonstrated his Truffle Shuffle which I had read about recently as being a very cool looking false shuffle, and it is, very natural and unassuming and looks great. Then both guys gave their tips on false dealing, seconds, centres and bottoms. Jason demonstrated Darwin Ortiz’s Jacks or Better as a great way to get into false dealing, and Derek gave us some tips on a great center deal. Finally Jason finished with his Royale with Cheese trick which is an ace assembly but using Royal Flush cards. A great workshop from some seriously skilled guys.

