Whatever the reason, Card Tricks are an essential part of any Magician's performance. Some require difficult sleight-of-hand techniques, most just need you to distract your audience while you ‘do the deed', many can be done in full view. A few need gimmicked decks or pre-prepared decks in order to work.
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The marked deck is a rarity these days; after all, who needs to remember 52 different secret markings, all small enough to go unnoticed by the audience? Far easier to ‘force' your victim to pick a specific card (she thinks she had free choice, but we know better!) then ‘control' the card to the top or bottom of the deck where it sits until you magically produce it.
A favourite technique of mine (called; the Glimpse) is to openly look at the card (this becomes the ‘Key card') above the selected card as the victim replaces it in the pack; all I have to do then is find that card and I know that the one below it is the selected card. Simple. The victim, and the rest of the audience, were all concentrating on the return of the selected card to the deck and didn't notice me tilt the top half of the deck so that the underside of the card was visible. marked cards tricks
The last photograph was taken through the window of the van, while the driver was maneuvering out of the parking lot. Too bad you can't really see that the people are playing cards, but that's in fact what they were doing.
Scenes like these are quite common throughout Pyongyang. It would have been more interesting to me if people were playing for cash, like I've seen people do in China, but that's all I was able to capture on this trip.
