Practice review 2 electric boogaloo

OK. Back to my review.

Chapter two was more annoying than hard. My basic overhand shuffle is not as clean as it could be. But that stems from my dislike of this shuffle. As I said before, It does Not look like a normal shuffle. My goal is to master a deck of cards for both Magic and Cardistry so I press on. I usually start this by running the whole deck card by card a couple times. I tend to watch my hands so my goal has been to get better at running the cards. I watch tv and count out the cards as I run them. Then I move onto Control of the top cards. Droping the jokers on the top of the deck I over hand shuffle them right back to the top. Then I overhand shuffle them to the bottom and procede to shuffle them back to the bottom of the deck. In each case My goal is to clean up the shuffle and shrink the injog that marks the controlled cards. I do have to admit I love the way Roberto Giobbi handles control of a single bottom card. It is smoth and easy. I run the top card to the bottom then keep it there through another shuffle. This chapter has two routines with the overhand shuffle. I dont like the shuffle though, so I practice the second routine. It is called "the spectator cuts to the aces" and its done fine enough without useing the overhand shuffle to set it up. Thats another thing I dislike. Having to set up or arrange the cards into a certain order to pull off something magical. The effect is smooth though so its worth practicing. The effect is just like you imagine. You hand a spectator the deck of cards. Have them cut it in half. Then have them cut each half in half. Then you turn over each top card and show them they have cut to each ace. Then I move onto chapter three. I will cover that in my next post.

Off the topic of magic and on the topic of games. The holiday seasons picking up steam this year. Even with a lot of games being pushed back to early 2010. This week we purchased Demon's Souls after my brother told me about it. So far its pretty sweet. Next week is pretty solid also. My girlfriend preordered Brutal Legend and I will be picking up Uncharted 2.