Lessons In Card Mastery by Darwin Ortiz

Among Darwin Ortiz' many fans, the only question is which of his card books is the best: Cardshark, Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table, or Scams & Fantasies with Cards. Now there is a new candidate: the aptly-named Lessons in Card Mastery.

This time the accent is on uncanny displays of card control. You'll display mental control by diving cards under impossible conditions and memorizing a deck in a matter of seconds. You'll display physical control by cutting to a selected card with just one finger, trapping two selections in a shuffled deck, displaying mastery at Texas hold'em, instantaneously producing an entire suit, making the deck sort itself into reds and blacks, and causing all fifty-two cards to rearrange into perfect suit and number sequence. Again and again the cards obey your will like soldiers following the marching orders.