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Paul Cummins - Counting On It

Columnist: Paul Cummins The following routine originally appeared in The New York Magic Symposium Collection 3, by Stephen Minch, in 1984. At that time it was one of my staples at the bar in Gainesville, FL where I worked nightly at Farah’s on the Avenue Cafe. The place had about a 60 foot bar, a dining room, and a patio cafe out front. I handled all the bar business with food, drink, and magic, and also all the bar s...
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Paul Cummins - Intuitive Poker

Columnist: Paul Cummins This, the last formal installation of my column for GeMiNi, is a Poker routine in which the spectator apparently does all the straightforward choosing and discarding of cards yet somehow finds a royal flush for themselves. Over probably hundreds of performances (this one is only about five years old), it has been my experience that women love this routine – whether they know how to play Poker o...
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Paul Cummins - May 16th Chat

Columnist: Paul Cummins Joe Stevens made a great suggestion regarding the chat I will be hosting on May 16th: why not post a routine in the Columns section and see if it generates some discussion during the chat! Below you’ll find a routine that is not in my lecture notes, but is slated for inclusion in my upcoming book. Although it is a derivative routine, I believe I have changed the presentation from its precursor ...
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Paul Cummins - Phone Home

Columnist: Paul Cummins Hereís a routine Iíve been using now for about six months. I admit Iíve used it mostly for magicians and it has left them baffled; the few laymen Iíve performed it for had no clue whatsoever and everyone Iíve performed it for were surprised to be holding their selection at the end of the routine! I hope you are able to use it Phone Home By Paul W. Cummins © 1999 For some years I have ...
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Paul Cummins - Multiples

Columnist: Paul Cummins This is installment 4 of this series of columns and I hope there are some of you out there who have been enjoying them and are playing with some of the routines. Multiple selection routines have been around for awhile and are a wonderful closer for a table-hopping or walkaround performance. Ed Marlo, Eddie Fechter, Darwin Ortiz, Martin Nash, and Steve Bedwell, to name a few, have published vers...
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