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Convincing Control
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Convincing Control is a card control or cull, named by Ed Marlo, which secretly gets a selected card from a face down in the hands spread to the bottom of the deck while in the act of closing the fan.
Marlo created it based on a description told to him by Alton Sharpe (not the method, just what he had seen from a spectators point of view) about a move he had seen Larry Jennings do.
Publications
- Hofzinser cull ?
- "Card in the Aces" trick (part eight of Willane's Methods for Miracles series) by Edward Victor (1952) Victor describes the same method up to the point of closing the spread.
- Convincing Control by Ed Marlo in Hierophant No. 3 (1970)
- Immediate Bottom Placement by Larry Jennings in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings (1986) and again in Jennings '67
- The Convincing Control in Card College Volume 3
Variations
- Backslip Control by Jean Hugard in Royal Road to Card Magic (1948)
- New Convincing Control by Allan Ackerman in Here's My Card (1978)
- The Losing Control by Lee Asher & Allan Ackerman in Hand Jobs (2001)