{"id":30536,"date":"2022-06-06T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T09:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicstore102.one\/product\/five-roads-to-vegas-by-michael-breggar\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T07:52:58","slug":"five-roads-to-vegas-by-michael-breggar","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/magicstore102.one\/?product=five-roads-to-vegas-by-michael-breggar","title":{"rendered":"Five Roads to Vegas By Michael Breggar ( Instant Download )"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five Roads to Vegas By Michael Breggar<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Michael Breggar has written the “Auto-Magic” column in\u00a0The Linking Ring\u00a0<\/em>for several years. The purpose of the column is to provide professional and practical magic that is sleight-free (or very close). The cliches about “self-working magic” pronounce that this allows the magician to concentrate on the performance, but Michael contends that since the performance is the effect, the tricks need to be clever, layered, deceptive, and most of all, entertaining. While some methods require sleights, performance is always more important.<\/p>\n

Several of the tricks in The Five Roads to Vegas are re-edited versions of the most commented upon and most requested tricks from\u00a0The Linking Ring<\/em>\u00a0column. The title effect was published in\u00a0Genii Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and has been used successfully as an opener in many professional acts. The rest are all new and published here for the first time.<\/p>\n

While Michael takes you through each effect with careful descriptions and well-crafted patter, you will soon fit each effect to your own style.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s In the Book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Five Roads to Vegas.\u00a0<\/strong>A great opener with lots of audience participation. You play the role of a Vegas croupier dealing cards to a “poker team” of five spectators. As you deal down cards from a shuffled deck, the five “players” yell STOP at any time. The cards they stopped at randomly comprise a royal flush. But wait\u2026 you have predicted which of the five players would stop at which of the five royal flush cards! And as an extra surprise, the other 47 cards in the deck are blank!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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CONTENTS CONTINUED<\/em>

Three Numbers and a Lady.<\/strong>\u00a0A “triple prediction” effect that solves the issue of the typical “weak” third prediction. There\u2019s a nice twist at the end that no one sees coming.<\/p>\n

Coin-Seyan Economics.<\/strong>\u00a0“Miraskill” meets Steinmeyer meets John Maynard Keynes. What starts as a funny lecture in Global Economics (yeah, really!), turns into a stunningly, multi-phase prediction effect. Great for stand-up and stage.<\/p>\n

Drawing on Emotions.<\/strong>\u00a0The drawing duplication effect that Michael uses in his parlor and stage acts. Can easily be adapted for close-up and walk-around. It is direct, clear and limitless. Above all, it is organic and doesn\u2019t feel like “a trick.”<\/p>\n

A Principle in Search of an Effect.<\/strong>\u00a0A bare-bones prediction effect is used here to illustrate a little-used principle that has Gilbreath DNA. Readers are invited to turn their imagination spigots on high to make this a miracle.<\/p>\n

Monopoly-S-P.<\/strong>\u00a0“The cure for the common bored game.” A fun mentalism routine right off your game shelf.<\/p>\n

Self-Fulfilling Prophesy.<\/strong>\u00a0Takes Bill Simon\u2019s wonderful “Prophesy” move to a new level. Not only is it sleight-free, but it is performed in the spectator\u2019s hands!<\/p>\n

Three Spies and the Extraction.<\/strong>\u00a0A performance piece that puts the “Self-Fulling Prophesy” in motion with a cool story about spies and international intrigue. Le Carre would appreciate the ending!<\/p>\n

Absolutely ACAANY.<\/strong>\u00a0A self-working “Any Card at Any Number” effect that received more highly favorable emails and comment that any other effect in the “Auto-Magic” column. As a bonus, Michael details THREE additional sleight-free ACAAN versions never before published.Plus, two short essays reflecting on the Zen of sleight-free magic and Michael\u2019s opinions on why it is so important in the magic oeuvre, provide must-read bookends.

47 pages, photo-illustrated. Intro priced thru 7\/10!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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