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seige wrote:You need to see them performed well, and used in real-world applications (as opposed to tutorials) to realise their potential.

At which point you realise you could have probably just cut the deck openly anyway I know I did when I first used it.

I found that the hardest thing to learn to do was not the pass itself but the ability to keep talking and make it. I was still learning to do that with shuffles at the time though.

I think it's one of those things that's much more reliant on a good performance than anything else. Hold the specs eye contact, cover your angles, act naturally and even I can pull off even my sloppy pass fine.

ooooh no...a pass is supposed to be unseen, as if nothing has happened...thats what its all about...a cut, however flashy n false, can put in the mind of the spec that you're somehow moving their card around...

What I meants was, the spek was concentrating so hard on something else that I could have openly cut the deck and they wouldn't have neven noticed.

Rather than cut I would suggest a riffle shuffle since you have the break anyway. A little time misdirection would help though.