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	The Ambitous Card
		Now by applying pressure on the bottom card with your left third and ring fingers seize the bottom half of the deck except the bottom card with your right and then shuffle them off on top of the deck.
		Give some excuse like: "Maybe the ambitious card is a bit out of shape and is not feeling so well right now." Then finally add that you will try one last time reminding the spectator to watch carefully.
		The middle and ring fingers, slightly bent, rest against the face of the bottom card; the little finger curls inwards so that its side rests against the inner end and the thumb rests on the top card, its tip near the middle of the outer end.
	web.superb.net /cardtric/tricks/tbrown/ambitous.htm (907 words)

	Card Domain
		Place the card with the hole in the middle of the deck, and the other five of spades wherever you need it, so that it can be "forced" on the spectator.
		After seeing their cards, then placing them back into the deck, the volunteer is then presented with a similar pair which is often mistaken for the original pair.
		The 26 cards dealt by the spectator are given to him, the undealt portion is taken by the magician.
	www.carddomain.netfirms.com /tricks.htm (5939 words)

	Dai Vernon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Houdini often boasted that he could not be fooled if he saw a card trick performed three times.
		Vernon performed a version of a trick called Ambitious card for Houdini seven times, and Houdini could not figure out how it had been done.
		The "standard" Cups and balls routine is his, and his 6-ring "Symphony of the Rings" remains one of the most popular Chinese linking rings routines in use to this day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dai_Vernon (323 words)

	Card Manipulations No. 3--The Ambitious Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Briefly the plot of the trick is that a chosen card appears on the top of the deck, the place of honor, and although it is repeatedly placed in the middle it constantly returns to the top.
		You draw off several more cards on to B, in fact any number that may be called for, then drop the rest of the cards in the right hand on top of those in your left.
		You put the card in your right hand on the floor apparently, really you make the bottom change and it is the card with the wax pellet on its back that drops face down and the Ambitious Card is left on the bottom of the pack.
	sky.prohosting.com /fizbin/athenaeum/magos/books/cmanip03/005.HTML (493 words)

	Video Reviews
		For the climax, the cards are spread to reveal they have all turned face-up, except for the spectator's chosen card, which is face-down.
		The cards mysteriously vanish, and for a climax, the kings are reproduced in the middle of the deck with the selected cards in between them.
		The magician clearly shows the odd-backed card to be in the middle, but by giving a little shake, the card visually goes to the bottom, and then goes back to the middle.
	lightning.prohosting.com /~magic23/video.html (3856 words)

	Misdirections Magic Shop -- Card Magic
		The cards are now taken from the holder at the bottom, passed one at a time slowly in front of the Bellboy's eyes, and placed in the holder on top.
		By using this novel, easy-to-use system, a card which is chosen and signed by a participant appears in a photo frame that has stood in front of the audience since the beginning of the show.
		Happily, he explains that the card is not just similar to the one chosen by the participant, but that it is the chosen card its elf, as he turns the photo frame and shows the signature.
	www.misdirections.com /shop4.html (13004 words)

	The Magic Cafe Forums - Glenn Bishop DVD #1 Tested Card-Works for Card Shark Magicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ambitious card -- this is a good ambitious card routine -- not extremely difficult, but there is good material in here.
		I have been a student of card magic for 40 years, this DVD has taught me plenty but the teaching is so good, it would quickly put great skills in any ones hands.
		What places him leagues ahead of most other card men is that his performing repertoire is not limited by one school of thought, be it New York, Chicago, or the West Coast, but uses the real work of all these schools.
	www.themagiccafe.com /forums/viewtopic.php?topic=86008&forum=111&43 (5881 words)

	Card Technology, The Smart Card News Source
		As many as 100,000 of the 64-kilobyte cards could eventually be issued during the pilot, says Paul Contino, vice president of information technology at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center, who anticipates issuing the first set of cards in the spring.
		The idea is that the one card could be used at any of the participating facilities, allowing medical staff to know if the patient has allergies or another chronic medical condition that could affect treatment, without making the patient repeat a test.
		The card face is expected to have various patient information and the cardholder’s photograph printed on it.
	www.cardtechnology.com /article.html?id=20051205IRQEUNX8 (951 words)

	Very Ambitious Card
		Then the performer places the card in the center of the pack once more, and the card jumps out of the pack and lands in the hand of the performer.
		Take the top card and place it in the middle while holding down the other bent card on top of the pack.
		Tell the spectator that their card will now leap out of the pack, do a triple flip, and land in your other hand.
	web.superb.net /cardtric/tricks/tbrown/veryamb.htm (420 words)

	magic trick - Ambitious card
		Ambitious card routines are impressive, for sure, and look very complex to do.
		Also, it is necessary to bend another indifferent card in order to repeat the stunt, and by virtue of the fact that the selection card is already bent, there is no excuse for bending another indifferent.
		Anyway, the spectator's card is insterted in to the deck at a 90 degree angle, outjogged for 3/4 of it's length, face up with signature in view, about two or three cards from the bottom of the deck.
	www.talkmagic.co.uk /sutra2805.php (1770 words)

	magic trick - Ambitious Card Routine
		He treats the ambitious card as a set of small effects which can be plugged together in any order with numerous variations etc..
		Puts the signed card on top of the omni deck, waves the now open envelope over the top, removes the card again and the specs are literaly stunned into silence when he shows the plastic block.
		I too was not convinced with Sanderson's ambitious card routine but I did like the reactions as well as some of the 'touches'.
	www.talkmagic.co.uk /ftopic5973.php (1320 words)

	Crash Course in Cards 2 - The Ambitious Card
		The ambitious is one of the effects in magic that every magician, or conjurer, should have a firm grasp upon.
		The spectator?s card is slowly pushed in flush with the deck, and is then revealed to have jumped to the top of the deck.
		A card is invisibly flipped face up on tope the deck in the process of dropping the deck from one hand to another.
	www.magictalk.com /cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?read=761 (1816 words)

	Ultimate Magic Network: Magic Library: Read Trick
		The Magician places the signed card on the table; the spectator places his finger on it so that there is no funny business.
		False shuffle keeping the top card in place and allow the spectator to pick up his believed card and place it back into the deck any way he wishes.
		Once you roll the two cards over to show the face and as you begin to roll them back, I don’t always feel it looks natural to roll the two cards back over — lay it on the deck and THEN throw the top card to the table.
	www.ultimatemagic.com /library/read.php?ID=832 (781 words)

	Ambitious Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Daryl's video is to the Ambitious Card Routine as Greg Wilson's video (Ring Leader) is to the Ring and String Routine.
		Ammar certainly does not cover the ambitious card routine to the depth that Daryl's video does, so if depth is your criteria, you should probably buy Daryl's video.
		If it really is just Ambitious Card you're after, perhaps Daryl's 'Ambitous Card Omnibus' would be the way to go.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~roy/magictalk-wisdom/discussions/ambitious_card.html (350 words)

	Crash Course in Cards 2 - AmbitiouXs Card by ellusionist
		Total, there are 8 ways to clearly place the ambitious card in the middle, from ALL angles.
		This is when the ambitious card is placed in the middle of the deck, bent, and when the performer snaps his finger, the card pops up to the top, showing the bend.
		This includes when the spectator is holding their card, you can get ready by placing their card on top of the deck, but really in the double lift position!
	www.ellusionist.com /reviews/c/Crash-Course2.php (1551 words)

	Annemann’s Card Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Intricate, absorbing study based on research and card collections from around the world.
		Marvelous treasury of card magic presents exact details of 155 professional card tricks that anyone can learn.
		Card wizard John Scarne reworked these tricks to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand.
	store.doverpublications.com /048623522x.html (188 words)

	Crash-2: the Ultimate Guide to the Ambitious Card Trick
		- Techniques that force a spectator to believe their card is in the middle of the deck beyond a shadow of a doubt.
		- The infamous Pop-Up Move - a big crimp is placed in a card and the card is shown to be in the middle of the deck — people visibly see the card as it rises to the top.
		To be honest, I was not an Ambitious Card lover before this.
	www.ellusionist.com /order/c2-card-trick/C2_ambitious_card_trick.htm (2447 words)

	Daryl's Ambitious Card - DVD :: magic tricks
		This is nothin special,it is so obvious how you get the card from the midle to the top.The only part i liked about it was the gimmicked deck at the end of the trick.But it is imposible to make.Better off getting something like club sandwich or queens out of control.
		It not only covers how the basic ambitious card is done, it gives you a routine and many other amazing ambitious card moves.
		Daryl is a great teacher and with a little practise you can soon perform the basic ambitious card and then soon you will be able to perform the more difficult sleights invloved.
	www.magictricks.co.uk /prodshow.asp?code=34&RevDisp=showall (1058 words)

	1999-Mar-16 News Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ruth Sulik was the first and she started the show with "Poky the Rabbit." A cute little trick where Poky's head keeps getting cut off, but by paying attention he never seems to lose it.
		Dan Olsen started with a simple card that became an "Ambitious Card." And Leonard Swinyer followed Dan by showing that his pet snake "Viper" can find any ambitious card, or even a signed card.
		Quentin Smith showed use some card manipulation, and Ed Rock pulled a signed card out of a deck enclosed by a silk scarf.
	www.legerdemains.com /ac01008.html (457 words)

	Million Dollar Card Magic with Simon Lovell - DVD
		The card tricks are so secret that the manufacturer has asked us not to list them on the site.
		Advanced card handlers looking for fancy new flourishes won't find them here, and newcomers to card magic will be frustrated by Simon's abridged instruction on the few required sleights.
		Also in one of the phases of his ambitious card routine, Simon boasts of having spent six years perfecting his pass, but in the explanation of that phase, he doesn't teach a pass.
	www.penguinmagic.com /product.php?ID=914 (1453 words)

	Born to Perform Card Magic with Oz Pearlman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Instead of your spectators saying "ohhh he has really quick hands", they will have wide eyes, and gaspingly state "BUT he never touched my hands, the cards CHANGED in my own hands while I was holding them!" etc. The difference is subtle, but that difference is what creates the truly magical moments for your audience.
		Already being called "the finest card magic DVD of the year", this hot new release is destined to become a classic.
		Fot the more advanced card handlers it reminds us of the basic fundamentals that are so often forgotten.
	www.penguinmagic.com /europe/product.php?ID=618 (1198 words)

	Single Ambition
		You demonstrate that when the card is placed in the middle of the deck it will always rise to the top.
		When the card is turned the face is now seen to be completely blank!
		It comes complete with the specially printed cards, as well as fully illustrated instructions with two routines and additional handling ideas.
	www.elmwoodmagic.com /?nd=full&key=549&tagent=allmagicguide (172 words)

	Poker Chips and Playing Cards :: View topic - Ambitious Card
		A magician is one who can stand a few inches from you and with a borrowed coin, a lemon, a knife, a tumbler, or a pack of cards convince you he performs miracles.
		As for practicality, not too many spectators are going to want to watch an ambitious card routine that long, but it made for a great video.
		I liked the use of the card spin to apparently effect the change, that was a nice artistic touch, and I like the way you execute your card spins in general, letting the spin gradually die off rather than suddenly stopping it, in my mind it seems more attractive and graceful that way.
	www.21ace.com /phpBB2/forum/ambitious-card-4360.htm (1954 words)

	BEE PLAYINDG CARD DECKS BUY MARKED LUMINOUS POKER CARDS ONLINE CARD TRICKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A spectator's card rises from the center to the top of the pack repeatedly.
		Riffle the last card from one pile onto the top card of the other.
		Lift the top two cards as one and make a sharp bend in them along the width.
	www.cardsorcerer.com /hardtricks/The-Very-Ambitious-Card.html (497 words)

	Kable - ID card: 'too ambitious' - 4 July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The UK Government's 'entitlement card' scheme is likely to take years to develop and cost double the £3.1bn estimated, according to IT experts
		for a "universal identity card" on 3 July 2002, which would involve the creation of a "high quality population register", assigning every UK resident a "unique personal number that could be used across the public sector."
		The consultation paper proposes expanding the existing photocard driving licence and the passport card, which is soon to be introduced, into an entitlement card as well.
	www.kablenet.com /kd.nsf/Frontpage/1522B57A87E83E8380256BEC00435566?OpenDocument (909 words)

	Alakazam Magic Card Magic 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Imagine a spectator freely selecting a card from a normal shuffled deck and signing its face. The performer then shuffles the signed card back into the deck and returns the deck to its box.
		Place labels on three face-down cards, one by one. Three spectators guess what the cards are and mark the labels.
		Mike Rose's brilliant approach to the 'card at any number' plot satisfies the need for a worker's solution to this commercial effect. This is so clean and direct that it will go straight into your act!
	alakazam.co.uk /acatalog/Alakazam_Magic_Card_Magic_18_127.html (235 words)

	Pop Eyed Popper Deck - Ambitious Card Secrets
		One of the most common tricks performed with this deck is the Ambitious Card Routine.
		The card is cut to the middle of the deck.
		The top card is then shown to be an indifferent card but by just snapping your fingers, the chosen card rises to the top!
	www.fljerry.com /flj0050.html (338 words)

	The Magic Cafe Forums - You do Magic DVD Package (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		2 tricks which is very very good are the ambitious card trick, this is one of the best ambitious card routines I have ever seen, and its so easy to follow the instruction.
		This as an amazing card to pocket routine, which fools every one every time.
		I reccomend either gettinf the DVDs or The ambitious card or the 4 times card to pocket.
	www.themagiccafe.com /forums/viewtopic.php?topic=98153&forum=109&2 (470 words)

	Poker Chips and Playing Cards :: View topic - New video. Ambitious Card Routine
		The card tricks were good, great variety, and I think that the song was a great great choice.
		If you are new to card magic I'd recommend picking up The Royal Road to Card Magic to learn the basic maneuvers.
		How do you do that little card twirling thing......I hate being a bother but that is the one of the few little things I have no idea on how to do.
	www.21ace.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=717 (1297 words)

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		Here you will learn 36 fascinating ways to conclude your pick a card routines and all are taught by one of the true masters of card magic.
		This is a top notch video of one of the most versatile card effects in magic.
		You then learn several methods to vanish a card from a deck, from a small packet and from the bare hands, before moving on to palming techniques.
	www.foolerdoolers.com /store/products.asp?category=50 (2088 words)

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