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Handcrafted Card Magic - Volume 2 more info 32 €
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Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 3

conceived, written and illustrated by Denis Behr
The magic of Denis Behr is spectacular, entertaining, and out-of-this-world mystifying. (A nice way of saying that he made me smile while he fooled the crap out of me!)
Steve Forte

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Jason England

Handcrafted Card Magic Volume 3 is a great little book. If you love card magic, it should be in your library (along with the previous two volumes).
Michael Close (Newsletter review)

I can't imagine any magician not being thrilled at the thought of another glimpse into Behr's thinking and this book does not disappoint.
John Lovick (Genii)

Online Review on Magicana
Jamy Ian Swiss

Contents

  • Foreword by David Williamson
  • Introduction
  • Routined Arith-Mate-ic
  • An ingenious Elmsley principle is reworked into an astonishing three-phase routine.
  • Set-Up from Tamariz Stack
  • Extended Gambling Demonstration
  • You want to be able to do anything with a deck of cards? Your audience will believe it after this routine.
  • Mating Season
  • A multi-phase mating extravaganza! The finale will melt the spectators's brains. Beware.
  • Getting into Power Stack from Tamariz Stack
  • The Dark Force
  • The choice couldn't be more free. Or so it seems.
  • On the Bottom Deal
  • A Bottom Deal that permits dry hands and a worn deck. It should be in anyone's toolbox.
  • Mr. Luckiest
  • If you want to play cards with anyone in the future, then you better never perform this routine.
  • Managing the Palm
  • Chair Holdout
  • Photographic Memory
  • Memorize a shuffled deck in a flash, and then prove it.
  • The Overhand Shuffle of the Deck
  • The More the Merrier
  • A strategy for more convincing multiple selection routines.
  • Haunted Herbert
  • The most popular rubber band on the planet learned a new trick!
  • Tabled Handling
  • In-the-Hands Handling
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
English language, hardbound with dustjacket, 5.8 x 8.3 inches, about 90 pages
Errata Sheet for Handcrafted Card Magic, Vol. 3
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Magic on Tap

Four DVDs of card magic, shot in Munich at the Krist & Münch theater as well as at Munich's Beer and Oktoberfest Museum. Produced with VanishingInc, this set includes a full evening show at the theater with audience.

The first time I saw Denis I got fooled… the second time I was fooled again. After the fourth or fifth time I begged him to do a DVD and damn, did he deliver.
Chris Kenner

In Denis Behr’s live shows, he's smart, funny, skillful, and very tall. On the Magic on Tap performances, you get everything but the tall part. Instead, you also get clear explanations of his großartig card tricks.
Max Maven

Excellent performances, followed by detailed explanations, packed in a superb production! But even better, we get a glimpse into the brilliant mind of Denis Behr.
Asi Wind

Denis is gifted. These are fantastic.
Michael Weber

Brillant. A must-have for any serious card man. Denis is funny, entertaining, has his own style and this I give a standing ovation!
David Malek

If you like clever card magic, you’ll love Denis Behr’s Magic on Tap: get ready for sophisticated pasteboard prestidigitation, and a full mass of beer, too!
Roberto Giobbi

Denis is a good friend, so you might say I am biased. And I absolutely am: I very much enjoy intelligent, artful, funny and original card magic. And that‘s why I love these DVDs. Just watch them — I bet you will be biased, too!
Pit Hartling

Online Review on Magicana
Jamy Ian Swiss
Disc 1 — Theatre Show
  • Brute Force Opening
  • The King Thing
  • Shuffled ACAAN
  • Herbert — The Trained Rubber Band
  • Mating Season
  • Magic Monthly
  • Oil & Water
  • Photographic Memory (performance only)
  • The Tantalizer
  • Expanded Gambling Demonstration
  • Encore: Stop It (performance only)
Discs 2 & 3 — Explanations
  • Brute Force Opening
  • The King Thing
  • Shuffled ACAAN
  • Herbert — The Trained Rubber Band
  • Mating Season
  • Magic Monthly
  • Oil & Water
  • The Tantalizer
  • Expanded Gambling Demonstration
  • Stack Management
  • Messy (performance & explanation)
  • Strip-out Shuffle
  • Transitions
  • Encore
Disc 4 — Beer Hall Magic
  • Another Trick for Allen Kennedy 2
  • Routined Arith-Mate-ic
  • Packet Trick
  • The Green Card
  • Plop
  • Brute Force Opening
  • Herbert — The Trained Rubber Band
  • Oil & Water
English language, with optional German subtitles, 5 hours 46 minutes

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"The Expert under the Card Table"
Playing Cards

These green-backed cards are produced by the USPCC. They have been designed by Jörg Willich with beautiful and well-filled delicious beer glasses in the corners of the back design. And they table faro nicely, see here.

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Handcrafted Card Magic — Volume 2

conceived, written and illustrated by Denis Behr
The warning, "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" is a lie because if a book has Denis Behr's name on the cover you can be sure it is well-written and filled with card magic that will delight your mind, your hands, your heart and your audiences.
Michael Weber

Every entry is worthy of the thoughtful cardician's attention. Looking for a book of card material that will actually deliver satisfying results? You need look no further than this.
Jamy Ian Swiss (Genii Magazine)

I promise, I will come up with a really good quote for Denis' new book, but at the moment I am just too busy performing his material!
Pit Hartling

Denis Behr doesn't take himself too seriously, but he does take card magic seriously. In his latest literary effort, Handcrafted Card Magic 2, you can read for yourselves why Denis has to be considered a serious author, for what he writes is interesting and original, with the added benefit that the interesting things are also original, and the original things interesting.
Roberto Giobbi

It's a short-but-sweet collection of some of the best card magic in recent years. That's not an exaggeration.
Antonio M. Cabral (M-U-M Magazine)

I've examined this material. It is every bit as good as that in its predecessor.
Stephen Minch (Foreword)

Contents

  • Foreword by Stephen Minch
  • Introduction
  • The Green Card
  • A surreal effect involving a signed card and a prediction in full view.
  • Two More Tricks for Allen Kennedy
  • Practical center deal demonstrations that look exactly like the real thing.
  • The First Routine (Pit Hartling & Denis Behr)
  • The Second Routine
  • Home Again
  • Further concepts and ideas for stacked deck work, expanding on the work in the previous book.
  • Chaotic Chaos Cut
  • The Plop Replacement
  • "Shuffling Lesson" into a Partial Stack
  • Messy — The Director's Shuffle (Pit Hartling & Denis Behr)
  • Probably the most convicing Triumph routine that you will find.
  • With a Stack
  • Stop It
  • The spectator repeatedly stops at predicted cards. Afterwards he will join your religion.
  • Further Thoughts on the Half Forcing Deck
  • Shuffled ACAAN
  • "Any Card at Any Number" with a deck shuffled by the spectator.
  • A Palm-to-Palm Transfer
  • Optional Addition: Cemented ACAAN
  • Suit Surprise
  • A professional Suit Appearance routine.
  • Herbert — The Trained Rubber Band
  • Beware — Herbert will steal your show!
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
English language, hardbound with dustjacket, 5.8 x 8.3 inches, about 90 pages
Errata Sheet for Handcrafted Card Magic, Vol. 2
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Handcrafted Card Magic

conceived, written and illustrated by Denis Behr
This is a book that not only justifies its existence by means of innovative material and original thinking, but which represents the mind of a thoughtful and tasteful creator who pays attention to myriad tiny details that can make all the difference between mediocre magic and beautiful illusions. (...)
This is the way magic books should be written.
Jamy Ian Swiss (Genii Magazine)

Most card books present handlings or better ways of accomplishing things you already do. Handcrafted Card Magic gave me new things to do in already exceptional ways. This is a great book.
Ricky Smith (M-U-M Magazine)

His hands are so large that he can palm playing cards sideways without the fear of detection.
John Lovick (MAGIC Magazine)

There is some fine thought in this material. My favorite pieces are "A Trick for Allen Kennedy" (a surprise, since I'm not usually drawn to gambling effects) and "Oil and Water Finale". However, there is much else to admire.
Stephen Minch

The chapter, however, that I predict will stand-out as one of the most important and influential contributions to the study of stacked-deck magic is "Finding The Way Home".
Pit Hartling (Foreword)

Contents

  • Foreword by Pit Hartling
  • Introduction
  • Brute Force Opening
  • An opener that does its job: Knocking the spectators out with three rapid-fire effects in no time.
  • Plop
  • Control any four-of-a-kind without looking at the faces of the cards.
  • The Culling Procedure
  • Plop — The Effect
  • A Trick for Allen Kennedy
  • One of the cleanest Center Deal demonstrations.
  • Magic Monthly
  • A strong two-phase four-of-a-kind production with an emotional hook that is a real workhorse.
  • Finding The Way Home
  • The concepts and ideas in this section will change your stack-work and make it much more deceptive.
  • Possible strategies for rearranging cards systematically
  • "The Tantalizer"
  • A Trick for Allen Kennedy
  • Way into "The Tantalizer"
  • Packet Trick
  • Red-Black Division into Stack
  • Liebenow's Card Peeling
  • A Gambling Demonstration
  • An easy gambling routine that can be followed by anybody — interested in gambling or not.
  • Oil & Water
  • A real laymen pleaser. Try this routine and you'll want to keep it in your repertoire forever.
  • Oil & Water Finale
  • What Daryl's "Ultimate Ambition" is to the Ambitious Card plot, "Oil & Water Finale" is to the Oil and Water plot.
  • Gray Matters
  • An ultra-clean challenge location to fool anybody.
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
English language, hardbound with dustjacket, 5.8 x 8.3 inches, about 90 pages
Errata Sheet for Handcrafted Card Magic, Vol. 1
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