The close-up session started with David Williamson, his lost luggage had still not arrived so he had been to visit the dealers, which resulted in a very funny sequence.

He used a lay-spectator to help and took a deck of cards from his special bag, had them shuffled and then showed the spectator how he had them in the bag, which just happened to be shaped like a church collection bag! Sadly he mis-shuffled the deck so had to do a different trick anyway!

He performed He Who Spelt it Deal It, and then went on to switch a signed card in a dove-pan and threw this off stage to Bob Sheets who loaded it into an apple, all while David misdirected the spectator.

Bob Sheets performed Ton Onosakas Royal Flush Tonte and his 3 Shell Game, which is a tour-de-force of this particular genre, a great routine that builds to a climax of putting the shell containing the pea under a box, and then an empty shell under a glass, and the pea vanishes from under the box and appears under the glass.

Banachek started with a coin and fork bending routine and finished with a centre tear routine. Finallly in our room Patrick Redford perfomed his Glimme routine which is a card routine where the spectator seemingly forgets the card he was shown, and subsequently the whole audience suposedly forget certain actions, the card comes back to the top, the deck is seperated into reds and blacks and then mysteriously re-shuffled, all under the presentation of the audience forgetting or not catching Patrick performing these actions. Lastly Patrick performed a very clever 3-phase poker routine where he won all three phases despite giving the spectator all the chances and choices to try and beat him.