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The Effect
Spectator selects a card and a hole is torn in the centre of it.
You then take from your pocket 2 cards stapled together also with a hole in the centre.
The spectator's card is pushed inbetween the stapled cards and and your finger is pushed through the centre.
The spectator then proceeds to slide their card out through your finger.


Cost £16 approx


Difficulty 2

(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)



Review
I don't normally go for 1 trick DVD's but got this for a tenner.
Obviously the effect uses a gimmick but that's ok because the 2 stapled cards are so obviously gimmicks and are shown quite openly that the spectator should be quite satisfied that they are as they appear.
Their chosen card is picked from a pack and they handle this quite freely.

The method is quite simple, a bit of care needs to be taken and the effect is exactly as it appears.
You can make the gimmick in about 10 minutes from normal cards although some are included. If you put the gimmick in your pocket you could do this effect with a borrowed Bicycle pack - as long as the owner is happy to have holes ripped in his cards. (Don't you use hole cards in Texas Hold 'em anyway?)
Very nice effect and recommended. (Worth a tenner anyway).


Overall 8.5 out of 10.