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What are your favourite card tricks taught by Roberto Giobbi in his books Card College 1 & 2?

Let's not include tricks from Giobbi's next three books, Card College 3, 4 & 5, because that covers more advanced material. Card College 1 & 2 is more suited for beginner to intermediate level, and also has a companion video course (available for digital download here and reviewed here). So for this thread let's restrict ourselves to the material from the Card College 1 & 2 books.

Which tricks do you think are the best from these two books, and what ones do you perform?

This is off the top of my head, so I may be wrong that they appear in 1 & 2:

The Invisible Card: Great 3-phase routine with a nice kicker.
Time Machine: Quick and visual 2 card transposition that does not require a working surface
Royal Flush Surprise: Elegant way of revealing 4 Aces, followed by a Royal Flush. Makes a great intro to more gambling-orientated effects.

These three appear regularly in my act, the rest of the stuff I do is from various Ortiz books.

I think Invisible Card might be in Vol 3.

In case it helps jog your memory about your favourites, here's a complete list of all the tricks included on the DVDs and the books for Card College 1 & 2:

CARD COLLEGE 1&2 DVDs: • Belchou Aces Revisited • Subconscious Poker • Hat Trick • The Question Is? • Think Stop • Further Than That • The Mind Mirror • Seventh Son of a Seventh Son • The Coué Test • Impossible! • A Phenomenal Memory • Rise & Swap • Vanished Without a Trace • Dave’s Delight • Transpo Excelsior • The Magus Card • Voilà, Four Aces! • Aces off the Cuff • X Marks the Spot • Homing Card Plus • The Magic Phone Number • The Time Machine • Twisting the Aces • The Lucky Coin • Psychic Stop • The Whistle

CARD COLLEGE 1 BOOK: Thought Stealer • The Spectator Cuts to the Aces • Hat Trick • Court Card Conclave • The Shamus Card • The Question Is... • The Lie Detector • Triple Coincidence • Seventh Son of a Seventh Son • The Red-black Location • Royal Flush Finale • The Acrobat Family • The Coue Test • Rise and Swap • A Card In Hand • A Phenomenal Memory • Your Number Your Card • Thot Echo • The Magus Card • The Lucky Card • The Magic Phone Number • As You Like It • The Jumping Pulse • Headliner! • Metamorphosis • The Lucky Coin

CARD COLLEGE 2 BOOK: Subconscious Poker • Aces Off the Cuff • Homing Card Plus • The Cards of Capistrano • Finnegan's Rewake • Card Through Handkerchief • The Really Wild Nine-card Trick • The Royal Acrobats • Vanished Without a Trace! • The Ambitious Card • Transposition Extraordinary • Card Catcher • Impossible! • The Whistle • Reversible Mix-up

Weird about Invisible card being in Vol. III, there's nothing hard about it: Injog shuffle control, riffle-force, Biddle steal, 5-as-4 count and that's it.

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