Bill's genius was to add the false shuffles and cuts and to make this not just an entertaining routine but also an amazing magic effect. Performing card magic will demonstrate what mastery of this caliber of card magic really means. Bill Malone's Sam the Bellhop is based on Sam and Moe in The Final Word on Cards by Rufus Steele. Just watching five to ten youtube videos of Bill Malone This kind of total nonchalance, ease and grace is what makesįor the very highest sort of card magic. Obvious reason for this is that a card magician's handling of the deck must be done mostly by feel Recommend that they be practiced a thousand times before doing them in front of an audience. Very clearly that it is necessary to practice these moves hundreds of times. These sleights are not easy to doĪt first and they will need lots of practice. All of these sleights areĮssential to the basic skill set of card magic sleight of hand. Such as the Zarrow Shuffle, the Erndase Running Cut and many, many more. The DVD, Malone gives instructions for quite a few sleights and flourishes that make "Sam theīellhop" not only entertaining, but extremely baffling. Then, and this is probably the best part of Grade school, a school chum showed me a very similar trick and I have never forgotten howĮntertaining it was. This kind of trick has special meaning for me personally because when I was in Kind of story-telling card trick in which each card has a meaning in the story as it is dealt off The Bellhop" DVD it was a really great purchase.įront of a lay audience of his version of "Sam the Bellhop". I don't normally purchase DVDs that feature just one trick, but in the case of Bill Malone's "Sam ( 12 customer reviews ) Price: 19. Full tutorial by Bill Malone included FREE SHIPPING TO THE UNITED STATES. If you apply yourself, you can learn the most entertaining four minutes you will ever do! Sam the Bellhop & 654 Club Deck by Bill Malone (Deck & Routine) A brand new, limited edition pack of 654 club playing cards custom made for Bill Malone's signature routine, Sam the Bellhop. This tape uncovers Malone's original dynamics that make the effect flow. That was a new idea! Over the years, he refined it and it became his signature piece.Įventually he was asked to perform it on the November '94 TV show, "World Greatest Magic." His electrifying performance on this show was destined to open golden doors of opportunity, and Bill shuffled off to the bank!Īfter seeing Bill's performance, other magicians have attempted to teach this trick, but they missed the essential ingredients. In fact, other story routines such as "Jack goes to Town", as published in "Scarne on Card Tricks", were already in the literature.īill learned the Sam the Bellhop story and stack as shown to him by Mike Pappas of Chicago and he immediately added expert blind shuffles and cuts to it, thereby making magic out of an amusing vignette. It was not really a trick but an amusing interlude such as "Troublewit" or "Rocky the Raccoon" In other words, it was not supposed to fool anybody and it was not a new idea. This was a stunt in which the magician tells a story while turning over cards from the deck, the cards matching the words in the narrative. In the book "The Final Word on Cards" by Rufus Steele there was an entry titled "Sam & Moe" (author unknown).
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