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Just trying to think of some effects/tricks where it all looks like it's gone horribly wrong for you and the spec is loving it... but then BAM, you hit them with the crunch that it hadn't gone wrong all along.

Any ideas?

That's how I present Left Brain / Write Brain. I don't say out loud but make it seem as if my first prediction is wrong, then continue into the second prediction. That's not just to make the ending a surprise but to offer a bit of misdirection too.

Now you see it, from RRTCM, it uses the glide so the spec never sees his card going on to the table. There are lots like that you can do with the glide of course.

There is also an ace assembly on Simon Lovells Million Dollar card magic that ends with a seven being turned up instead of the last ace and the ace is seven cards down

Most effect can be presented this way.

I love the 'stop' effect. I don't know what it is really called, or even where to find it.

Card is noted placed back into the deck. You tell the spectator that you are going to deal the cards one at a time don't tell me if you see your card, however when I get the feeling that I am holding your card I am going to leave it face down. You show the first card, "no thats not it" deal it face down to the table, Deal the second card, same thing. Keep going, the 4th card is the card card but you pretend it is not and keep going. The spectator of course knows you just botched the effect. You go through a few more cards, suddenly you have the card. You tell them, this is your card and you hold it face down as you look at them, "What? you don't think it is?" Turn the card over and of course it is the card. Boy do they go looking through that face down pile to find the card they saw earlier and of course it is not there.

This is probably like the one Wizz is talking about. Only no glide

Johnny Wizz wrote:Now you see it, from RRTCM, it uses the glide so the spec never sees his card going on to the table. There are lots like that you can do with the glide of course.

Designed for Laughter is one of my personal favourites

One that I often use as an opener is to have them select and return a card, bring it to the top and then DL to show 'their' card, obviously it isn't but quiten your voice a tad as you ask them to hold their hand out and place the top card (theirs) on their hand as you explain that the next top card is theirs, again DL but when they say that's not theirs change it to the first card you showed, more often than not they will automatically look in their hand, if they don't just gesture to them, it's a simple trick true. But, in my experience, extremely powerful.

Hope this helps

There are tonnes of 'sucker' effects out there. The most recent I saw was performed by Penn and Teller on Jonathan Ross:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIxay2YJz0