Richard Turner, followed his one man show from last night with an excellent lecture on card shifts, shuffles, hops, shifts and deals.

Watching Richard explain his work is, in part, more entertainment than a learning exercise. Watching someone so skilled with cards is a pleasure. I wont even start to think that I could the majority of what Richard explained in the session, but there were aspects of the session that I think anyone could learn from.

Even with Richard explaining the moves, even with him doing them in slow motion, some were still deceptive. For instance a shift that was done in picking up the cards, event when ‘exposed’ and done in slow motion, still looked like he was just picking up the cards.

It was an hour of pure self endulgence…