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Ok this is a brand new presentation from famous chinese magician Lu Chen about the berglas effect ( he already done it once, but this time it"s way more impressive)...well he throw balls into the public to have a random number and a random card and he never touch the deck, it's dated from the 5th july 2010 so very recent, its quite long and in chinese but well you know the effect so you ll be able to follow thru ( for non chinese speaking, the girl choose 9 of spades ).
Last thing ...the cards are dealt face up... !
As for the randomness due to the ball throwing I find it more impressive than the marc paul one ( which was already awesome ).

heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCaBwZ3F6Ow

Amazing!

I agree that this was closer to the "perfect" than Marc Paul's interpretation, since marc didn't go out of his way to prove that there were no stooges or pre-show work. This guy did.

WTB LOLZ <3

Edit:

My only guess is either:

1. They tried 52 times and waited to get lucky.
2. The audiance is entierly paid.
3. Berglas is extreamely clever...


Damnnit, I hate people smarter than me xD

1) The transparent table was not in fact transparent and was merley concealing a small midget who when the audience was not looking swapped the deck for an appropriate one.
2) That was not a real video it was just David Berglas hypnotising me and making me believe that I saw it.
3) He must have used real magic.
ORRRRR
He studied the old stuff, thought a little bit and came up with a method. I'm sure several methods would work, but we weren't seeing or hearing even everything, so we just have to accept we will never know the exact method. The method is not important.. nobody has ever explained why you're not 'allowed' to use a stooge. Not that I condone cheating or anything like that....

The thing is, as talentedf as Lu Chen is, he knows he is working on TV, and he has been known to organise effects that only work through the eyes of a TV camera. I cite the round glass table that he put coins, then his arm though.
Now, it would not have been as magical, if you were sat where those "live audience/stooges" were sat and seeing it, the cameraman had to be choreographed specifically for it to be an effect.
What you seeis not always what you get.

Who is to say similar is not happening here?

I'd say the coin effect was more angleproof than you make out. The audience sat round the table couldn't see what was happening because there was a magician in the way!

I highly doubt the entire audience was stooged- this seems like a regular performance on his weekly tv show. If he had to stooge an entire audience to do it, I'm sure he would just perform a different effect.

Seriously guys, I didn't say the entire audience is stooged. Is everybody saying that is the only way that they can think to reproduce this outcome for a TV camera?

Not me. I am 90% certain how it was done.

the only method i could find is that there are some instructions on the balls like :
"please say 49" and "please choose the nine of hearts"

Shall we not discuss method.. sorry. Anyone whose read the old stuff should be able to think up several different ways, and even without magic knowledge we are gifted with brains and imagination with which to think. There- that is the Berglas effect exposed. The bigggest secret is that there is no secret. Only thought.

Agreed

This trick is actually vry easy to do..
And this secret deck is available in 52magic.com..
So buy it and.......njoy

When they were counting out the cards the camera cut to a shot of the audience and at least one of them was yawning.

However I think the boys (I think they were boys) on the back row looked loverley.

Here's a question.... What's the magical effect with this?