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Oh my God... It was painful to watch!

Okay though... so he messed up. And yes, we all hate Mr Masked Magician. But this teaches us a valuable lesson. We all mess up from time to time, be it a trick we just learnt, and we were too eager to perform even though not enough practice went into it, or just a slip on a trick that we know from heart. But what to do when we mess up?

This is why I don't usually use routines. My "routines" always change depending on the situation. In my opinion, improvisation and spontaneity are key to a successful performance. It keeps YOU as well as your spectator engaged in the act. When practising tricks, try and link different tricks and routines together and at every stage of a trick, try to think of different possibilities.

In this example, what would you have done? I hope people reply to this question because it would be really interesting to read.

Personally, I would continue on with the trick until the four cards are revealed. (In a piece of music you are playing in a concert, you do NOT pause if you make a mistake... continue on. I made that mistake in a piano piece and I can tell you that it is NOT fun to be shaking and your face being red hot. Luckily for the Masked Magician, red faces don't exist for him.) When the four cards are revealed, I would continue on as a Poker demonstration. I would gather up the pile and control the rest of the aces NONCHALANTLY and SUBTLY (something which he failed to achieve) whilst I talk about the demonstration. I would go on and say that having one Ace is good, then I execute a switch of some kind (4 for 4 switch is my personal favourite), then say that it's better to have a four of a kind. If I were confident with it all, I would probably then change it to a Royal Flush.

i'd have simply turned all four over and got her to pick one of them.
turned it into a ambitious card routine

so simple

Tapion1ives wrote:i'd have simply turned all four over and got her to pick one of them.
turned it into a ambitious card routine

so simple

Do you not think that that would make the previous moving about of the cards seem pointless?

yeah but better to seem like it was a really convoluted way to get a random card an move into a good solid routine than do what he did.

she looked cheated at the end of that video

Excellently bad! "...and here is the fifth ace..." - classic fail!

Hahahaha, n00bie MM!

THREE cards across, not ONE!
That woman was just being polite by not saying "WTF is this, you're meant to have some amount of skill?"
And the MM would have to pause, decisively and says somthing extremely thought-provoking to counter her insult, along the lines of: "You said something verrry special"


I can't belive he said blatantly "You did something VERY special" in the real performance.

N000000000000000000000000000000000B

That's my cringe for the day.