Juan Tamariz - Star Close-up Show
September 26th, 2008 by Richard Morrell
Juan Tamariz was on top form, he started by handing out money to audience members and he played a game of three card monte using jumbo cards. Next was a variation on the old slap trick, but the card was fairly pushed into the deck with the cards in the case, and held by the spectator, Tamariz hit the box out of their hand and the spectator was left holding their card, he then repeated this to much hilarity.
He then performed a trick where a spectator selects a card and he finds a card for the value and a card to indicate the suit. Then he performed another of my favourite Tamariz tricks the supposed optical illusion of changing the Two of Diamonds into the Three using the Ace, and then it actually becomes the Three.
He then moved onto a multi phase Oil and Water each phase getting more impossible and visual. He then performed Mnemonicosis where a spectator calls up someone and asks them to name a card, and without touching the deck he has the spectator find the card in a magical way. Finally he performed Total Coincidence from his book Sonata where two packs of cards are mixed, and then the spectators make random choices which somehow result in the cards matching, and for the finale the two decks are dealt through and they match card for card, which earned Tamariz a standing ovation and brought the show to a great finish.

