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How wide should you spread your deck? We aren’t trying to break any records here, but we want to achieve a decent-sized span. For the spectators to believe they are seeing the entire deck, you must stretch the spread the distance you would usually spread a deck if you were having an audience member pick a card. Instead of using your fingers to help distribute the cards, let’s use friction. The key to expanding your reverse spread is regulated by how much you slide the cards across one another. By simultaneously pulling your hands apart as you push and pull the cards during the action of spreading, you regulate the friction that helps keep the cards together. Pull your hands apart too far, and you will lose your grip and the cards will …show more content…

Whatever the purpose, from now on you must be conscious of how often, and in which direction, you spread cards. If you have a card selected from a reversed spread but reveal it with a regular spread, for example, suspicion might follow. The best course of action is to always reverse-spread the deck when having a card selected, returned, or revealed. This keeps everything uniform. However, if that notion seems too overwhelming, below you’ll find several viable alternatives that should satisfy your needs. Fanning Cards By pivoting the entire deck around your thumb, you evenly distribute the cards in a circular shape. It’s a beautiful way to have a card selected, and does not expose the direction in which the deck is spread. A cursory look on the internet should yield several different methods of fanning. Some are more difficult than others, but any kind will work. Dribbling Cards One of my favorite ways to have cards selected and returned is by dribbling them. Hold the deck from above by using the right thumb on the short inner end, and second, third and little fingers at the outer end (End Grip). Curl your right first finger on top of the deck. Starting from the face of the deck, allow cards to fall individually by exerting and releasing pressure with your right thumb and second finger as you apply pressure with your forefinger from the top. Your left hand waits underneath, catching the falling cards in its palm. As the cards drop, have someone call stop. As soon as

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