I've found that a the audience reacts differently depending on how you perform. For example, I did a small ACR- really basic, card into middle, comes back to top a couple of times, and everyone that saw it treated it as a puzzle and then constantly badgered me as to how it was done. I was so P****d off and went home from school that night feeling rotten. Anyway, the next week, I did a variation on the original trick, where the top card is placed in a spec's hand, then jumps to the top of the deck which is held by another spectator. I performed this to the same crowd, and they loved it. My point is, that a lot of it is down to the way that you PERFORM a trick. For instance, during this second performance, I took extra trouble to build up tension, and took far longer before reaching the climax so that it would be harder to trace back to what I had actually done. I believe this is the reason that I got the reaction that I got, and that I would never have seen the gleam in a certain young lady's eye (eh eh
) when she realized her card had gone and was now way away from her. So to be concise, SO much of what the audience see (or don't see) is down to your presentation, your confidence, your misdirection etc. I know that this sounds really basic, but the sheer importance of it (in this instance anyway) only dawned on me after a lot of thinking and generally giving myself a b********g for messing up a trick. Anyway, I hope that this is relevant to someone... 
