It's the story of a drunk who wants to play poker. Being drunk as a skunk, he shuffles the cards face up and face down. Pretty bad start... but it ends very, very well! You will see… The DRUNKARD POKER is a great classic for magicians who are in their forties today, and more... The original trick was published if I remember correctly by LES CAHIERS DE LA MAGIE in the 60s. I don't know to whom we owe the idea and the basic routine of this wonderful classic. I obviously used this base to make something a little different. Those who know the original will surely enjoy this new version created by me in April 90. For a long time, I let this little routine (jealously kept secret by the magic intelligentsia) "sleep". A first draft came to me in 1977, but it was of little interest. In 1983, I reworked on a concept requiring the idea of the DRUNKARD POKER. These 2 versions 77 and 83 allowed me to arrive at The Drunkard poker as it has remained since.  

One of Dominique Duvivier's favourite techniques. It looks like a simple flourish, while it keeps the deck in order. Very effective!  

This technique allows an incredible number of applications. Please note that this has nothing to do with the Cop Move. It's even better!  

Two red kings turn into three selected cards... Fast, efficient and very baffling!  

A card disappears completely from the deck. It dematerializes on sight! It is impossible and yet... This trick is completely crazy!  

A deck of cards doesn't seem to have been printed properly: no faces, only blue and red backs shuffled... And yet the magic happens!  

The spectator and the magician each think of a card and these two cards end up side by side in the deck of cards. Which is stranger: that the magician's card is next to the spectator's card or the other way around? A disturbing and beautiful effect!  

On the magician's table, it is the fourth dimension and in his hand, the third dimension... When an object is placed in the fourth dimension, it transforms! A strange experience awaits you…  

In a normal deck, two cards are freely chosen, one in the first half of the deck and one in the second half. Before you can say "phew", you'll notice that the two chosen cards have changed packet! An instantaneous transposition, very flash and punchy! Then a third card is chosen and lost... and this new card ends up between the two cards chosen at the beginning! An unusual card sandwich effect.  

A trick specially designed for one or more travellers who are in front of you in a train car. Magic is needed in all circumstances!  

As a tribute to this famous Brother John Hamman effect, I created an impromptu version (without gaffed cards) of two cards that turn into four different cards.  

Cards print as if by magic. Everything prints everywhere! Simply amazing!  

Find out why you always have a good chance of winning when you play a game for the first time... A very powerful trick!  

You're going to love this routine full of twists and turns! You take the aces out of your deck, lose them back in different ways, and off you go for a series of mind-boggling effects to find them again! You're going to fool your friends, that's for sure!  

You just take a few blue-backed cards. A few magic passes and they all become red-backed. Then finally half red-backed and half blue-backed... A packet trick just the way you like it: full of cascading effects and so striking!  

Just with two red kings, a normal deck and two selected cards, you will perform miracles! The two red kings find the first chosen card and it disappears, without any suspicious moves. Then the second chosen card is in turn caught by the two red kings and disappears, too! The two cards are then lost in the deck and the spectator finds one himself. And final surprise: the entire deck that was face down for the entire trick is turned face up, with only one card face down: the second chosen card! Unbelievable!