Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks — Volume 1

Notebooks 1, 2, 3 (1964-1965)

2007
Written by Bruce Cervon
Work of Various
409 pages (Hardcover), published by L&L Publishing
Illustrated with drawings by Bruce Cervon
Language: English
77 entries
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Bruce Cervon Cut Control after peek with charlier cut
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Edward Marlo Marlo Aces like Marlo Estimation Aces
 		7
Bruce Cervon 2 Card Control Control two cards to top with incomplete faro
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Add to A-2-3 Effect Switch for Al Leech Effect
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Bruce Cervon Trap Door Control Peek Control with One Handed Cut
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Bruce Cervon Triumph Specail - Special triumph + poker demo
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Bruce Cervon Face Up Count card found by counting face up indicator card, incomplete faro control
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Dai Vernon, Bruce Cervon A-2-3-4 in Reverse ace to four first shown as ace to four and then four to ace
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Bruce Cervon A-2-3 Effect Ace, Two, Three change into three selections
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Bruce Cervon King Kut
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Bruce Cervon A Tinge of Color cut Aces face-up
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Bruce Cervon confused incomplete deck spread in IF Condition
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Bruce Cervon, Larry Jennings Face-up Count Handling
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Angle Wise Change
16
Bruce Cervon Double Incomplete control and mini effect
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Bruce Cervon Trapped by the Bullets
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Bruce Cervon everywhere nowhere
19
Bruce Cervon Turnabout is Faro Play selected card only face down between face-up
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Bruce Cervon, Larry Jennings Add to Faro Play
20
Simon though Vernon
21
Dai Vernon Vernon Fooler 1
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Dai Vernon Vernon Fooler 2
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Dai Vernon Vernon Fooler 3 with two crimps and secret counting to selected card
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Bruce Cervon sucker red glasses, apparently marked card, every card is marked with "fool"
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Dai Vernon Flip up! top card of one tabled half flips over onto other half that is sitting on the edge of the top card, gravity
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Dai Vernon Face Up Card second card from the top
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Revelment
24
Bruce Cervon Block Transfer Pushover cull riffle shuffle with block transfer, push through
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Bruce Cervon Cull Riffle
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Jay Ose Cheating Blackjack for named number of players, wining hand at first and second player
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Jay Ose On Table Riffle Cut false cut with jog
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Jay Ose False Cut
27
Bruce Cervon Card at any Number with riffle shuffle and block transfer
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Dai Vernon Dr. Daley Effect card jumps from between the kings into pocket
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Bruce Cervon Cutting the Aces shuffle Aces into pack and cut to them
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ReStacking Setup
31
Alex Elmsley, Dai Vernon card at any number called card with faros to number between one and twenty
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Dai Vernon Vernon Fooler key card
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Bruce Cervon Faro Fooler from NDO to NDO with two faros, double index cards
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S. W. Erdnase, Bruce Cervon Acrobatic Jacks or Travelling Aces aces jump from top to middle and vice versa
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Notes on the Pass top card cover pass
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Dai Vernon Black's stack four aces, kings and queens stacked for 6 hands, with faros
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Dai Vernon Vernon's False Cut
35
Dai Vernon 18 - 35 Faro
36
Bruce Cervon 18 up side down
36
Bruce Cervon Faro Finder peek with incomplete faro
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Larry Jennings, Bruce Cervon Face up Add Method 2
37
Off Center Finder
38
Dai Vernon You lied! interesting peek
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Alex Elmsley Spell it automatic placement
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Jay Ose False cut
39
Bruce Cervon odd combination automatic placement
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Alex Elmsley, Dai Vernon Queen Jump
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Dai Vernon Ultimate Spell Out building stack in front of spectator
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Larry Jennings phoney faro
43
Dai Vernon False Shuffle similar to Erdnase
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Dai Vernon The Weight Guesser Magician knows position of spectators card, estimation
Related toVariations 45
Del Ray, Dai Vernon Aces found a little improvisation
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Tony Giorgio Shuffle Stack two hands, faro
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Tony Giorgio Stock Marker plastic dot as a crimp
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Dai Vernon Vernon Side Jog left side diagonal insertion
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Dai Vernon Find a Card Spread
49
Dai Vernon to show the deck square after Vernon jog
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one card transfer cut Top card cover pass as a kind of slip false cut
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card transfer "cut" in hands
51
Dai Vernon 4 card you do as I do
Also published here 51
Edward Marlo Aces face up! three aces turn face up in the middle of the deck when the last ace is cut into the deck
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Bruce Cervon Aces face uo as Marlo Effect, with Larreverse
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Bruce Cervon My King Trick
53
Bruce Cervon false shuffle and block transfer strip out with block transfer
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Joe Berg Mental Miracle esoteric, apparently Moe Seidenstein's
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Joe Berg Find it! spectator thinks of a card, estimation and sprectator reaction
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Joe Berg Estimate behind the back estimate thickness of packet behind back
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Ha! estimation and improvisation
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Edward Marlo 18 - 35
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Dai Vernon Name a card Magician can name cards behind the back, punched
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Bruce Cervon, Larry Jennings 5 Card Miracle one way principle
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Data entered by Hannes Freytag, May 2008.