The Annotated Erdnase isn’t just a reference guide it also contains informational tidbits regarding the book itself (like how many technical errors the author of "Expert At The Card Table" made). In that book the focus was on the technical moves themselves, providing tips overlooked by the original author. If you wanted to know everything related to the slip cut, this book will let you in on that! I should mention a different book called "Revelations." The format is the same only it was written by the "Professor" Dai Vernon. This is one book card conjurors need in their library. Let me tell you, this book is loaded with information. What the reader will find valuable is the references to many other modern, variant sleights created since then. Because it was written back a century ago, it needed an update. These sleights described however assumes the performance is at the card table. For those of you who don’t know, "Expert At The Card Table" is an extraordinary book offering technical description on gambling sleights such as false cuts, false shuffles, and shifts (what magicians call the pass). It is simply a copy of "Expert At The Card Table" with additional sidenotes from Darwin Ortiz. The Annotated Erdnase is your reference to all of the sleights created since "Expert At The Card Table" was written (back in 1902). Whenever he wanted me to realize what move he was thinking about, he just did it and said "that one." Furthermore, whenever I spoke the magic language, he always asked me to show the move so he could say "oh that!" I can testify to that fact because recently I met a magician who could not vocalize the proper terms for each sleight-of-hand technique he used. We often use concepts without knowing where they originated from. Erdnase's The Expert at the Card Table titled The Annotated Erdnase in 1991 which was published to the magic trade.Ed Marlo felt magicians have very short memory. He also authored an influential annotation of S. Ortiz's major work for the lay public on gaming protection is Gambling Scams 1984. The most recent book published with Darwin Ortiz's original routines was Lessons in Card Mastery. The book posits and analyzes various theories regarding the perception and cognition of lay audiences and provides practical examples and advice on the construction of effects, aimed at maximizing their impact and deceptiveness to a lay audience. Ortiz's second book on magic theory, Designing Miracles is an exposition on the design of powerful magical effects, and is subtitled Creating the Illusion of Impossibility. Ownership of the copyright has recently returned to the author (along with two other books Darwin Ortiz At The Card Table and Cardshark) and the books are once again being made available to the trade. Demand for the book has been high, despite the initial inability of the original publisher to reprint the text. ANNOTATED ERDNASE BY DARWIN ORTIZ. PROFESSIONALThe book has been broadly embraced by the professional and amateur magic community but initially met with negative reviews from the two major US trade publications MAGIC and Genii. His book Strong Magic focuses on practical presentational techniques for close-up magicians. His two theory books, Designing Miracles and Strong Magic are, in our estimation, some of the most important writings on magic written in the last two decades." According to Vanishing Inc Magic, the site of magicians Joshua Jay and Andy Gladwin, "Darwin Ortiz is unparalleled in his theoretical writings. He is particularly respected for his written contributions on the theory of magic. Ortiz is the author of books on gambling and magic. Ortiz currently resides in Washington, D.C. Ortiz later became a consultant to a number of casinos in the United States, Europe, Africa, UK and Australasia, and was a regular featured presenter for a succession of years at the World Gaming Congress in Nevada. Ortiz was a contemporary and close friend of the influential US coin magician, David Roth, and was initially mentored by the seminal British/US close-up performer, Derek Dingle. During that time, he initially supported himself playing blackjack (using card counting techniques) and as an instructor at Harry Lorayne's memory school in New York City. In 1974, he dropped out of NYU Law School and pursued card magic full-time. Ortiz was born and raised in New York City, where he had a keen interest in card tricks since childhood.
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