![]() I got my wife by doing magic the first time I met her, at a party. I’d be lying if I didn’t think it would be awesome for that. Keith Pitt: “I turn into a different person when I do magic I’m actually quite quiet.” Stef King When I turned 18, I maxed out my very first credit card at the magic shop. One trick by Bill Malone got me hooked it was called Sam the Bellhop. Filmed in Las Vegas, it had the world’s greatest magicians doing tricks. Since I was six or seven, watching The World’s Greatest Magic on TV. Performing card magic will demonstrate what mastery of this caliber of card magic really means.Keith Pitt is the founder and chief technology officer of Buildkite. Just watching five to ten youtube videos of Bill Malone This kind of total nonchalance, ease and grace is what makesįor the very highest sort of card magic. Obvious reason for this is that a card magician's handling of the deck must be done mostly by feel Recommend that they be practiced a thousand times before doing them in front of an audience. Very clearly that it is necessary to practice these moves hundreds of times. These sleights are not easy to doĪt first and they will need lots of practice. ![]() All of these sleights areĮssential to the basic skill set of card magic sleight of hand. Such as the Zarrow Shuffle, the Erndase Running Cut and many, many more. The DVD, Malone gives instructions for quite a few sleights and flourishes that make "Sam theīellhop" not only entertaining, but extremely baffling. Then, and this is probably the best part of Grade school, a school chum showed me a very similar trick and I have never forgotten howĮntertaining it was. This kind of trick has special meaning for me personally because when I was in Kind of story-telling card trick in which each card has a meaning in the story as it is dealt off The Bellhop" DVD it was a really great purchase.įront of a lay audience of his version of "Sam the Bellhop". I don't normally purchase DVDs that feature just one trick, but in the case of Bill Malone's "Sam If you apply yourself, you can learn the most entertaining four minutes you will ever do! This tape uncovers Malone's original dynamics that make the effect flow. That was a new idea! Over the years, he refined it and it became his signature piece.Įventually he was asked to perform it on the November '94 TV show, "World Greatest Magic." His electrifying performance on this show was destined to open golden doors of opportunity, and Bill shuffled off to the bank!Īfter seeing Bill's performance, other magicians have attempted to teach this trick, but they missed the essential ingredients. In fact, other story routines such as "Jack goes to Town", as published in "Scarne on Card Tricks", were already in the literature.īill learned the Sam the Bellhop story and stack as shown to him by Mike Pappas of Chicago and he immediately added expert blind shuffles and cuts to it, thereby making magic out of an amusing vignette. It was not really a trick but an amusing interlude such as "Troublewit" or "Rocky the Raccoon" In other words, it was not supposed to fool anybody and it was not a new idea. This was a stunt in which the magician tells a story while turning over cards from the deck, the cards matching the words in the narrative. ![]() In the book "The Final Word on Cards" by Rufus Steele there was an entry titled "Sam & Moe" (author unknown). ![]()
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