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While not my favorite card routine, I enjoy doing this from how involved I can get with the crowd doing my patter. I also have noticed over the years how bigger the emotional investment, and therefore the emotional payoff throughout the performance, when the specky gets physically involved. However, in the two years I've performed Identity, I have always disliked that verbally it seems so drawn out in the beginning.

I mean first you have the card selection, then the marking of the specky's card (this part is usually humurous and enjoyable), then you've got false shuffles to control their card, then drawing of "marks", revelation of the "marked" card, and finally a gather up of three cards before any "magic" is performed for your audience. It's never happened to me, but I'm suprised some of them havn't walked away...people's attention spans are so short these days.

Anyways, does anyone else enjoy performing this routine? Any tips, or examples of the patter you use?

I enjoy doing a two card pass following the erdnase change, and the patter I use isn't a whole lot different from that used by R.S., it just seems to go with the trick for me.