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High Caliber By fohn Bannon

Photographs by )essica Bannon Layout, design and jacket design by Gabe Fajuri

Copyright @ 2013 ]ohn Bannon. AII rights reserved. No portion ofthe book or any of its contents may be reproduced by any means now known or to be invented without written permission from the publisher. Squash Publishing Chicago, IL 60640 w w w.

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And although this art is so wonderful, still it is held in no honor... . The reasons are various, it seems to me; fitst, the art is concerned with useless matters; second, it is practiced by men of low degree. G. Cardano De Subilitate,l.554

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FOREWORD

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hard to believe that I publishedDearMisterFantay almost ten years ago. Since that time, tricks from my notes and others newly-created have found their way into print. In High Caliber,I've collected all of my published material since Dear Mister Fantasy and put

it all in one place.

Most of the tricks were in a series of self-published booklets. The advent of inexpensive print-on-demand services made it easy (and, in a way, fun) to produce these smaller tomes. I love the litde booklets. They were small, colorful, convenient and manageable. I am sure I will continue to produce them. The time seemed right to gather them up and, fot a mofe Permanent edition, make a hardback book. I have combined all seven of these booklets, the tricks from my MAGIC MagaTfne appearance, and a couple contributed to other proiects. Over fotq, tricks in all.

In

a wa1r,

I've been writing this book along the way, instead of waiting ten

years.

were pubJished and then either re-published or overhauled and re-published over the period. When a parttctlar version of a trick had been overcome by

A few tricks events,

I left it out.

There are a couple

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exceptions, however. "Origami Poker Revisited" was set fofth tetold in n ff^t1ve style in MAGIC. So I kept both.

Six. Inpossibh. Things., and then

"Fractalfts62ll"-2 parttcular f2ys1i1s-i5 included in both Mega Vaue,then revised in Shffin'. Even though only the opening procedutes were changed, both have merit. Please excuse thrs bit of redundancrr Similarl,ri

For those of vou who acquired one or more of the included booklets over time, thank Iou for youf suppoft ovef the )rears. You have been the impetus to continue. Those booklets are now out

of print.

Forever.

though the interaction of a session was Present. Not a"teacher," but as a colleague. As I said in Dear Mister Faatay:

I have always tried to write

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hope you like the tticks, with any luck maybe you'll finish feeling like we've of our favorite subjects."

spent some time together on one

John Bannon Chicago, Illinois

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Directly and indirectly, "Magic" is a collaboraive art. Indirect collaborators provide inspiration, background, and foundation. Magic, in part, is always a product of the creator's influences. Direct collaboration is where the fun is. There are many people who helped with the tricks, the writing, the "slim volumes" and this compendium.

As the "Chicago Session," Simon Atonson and Dave Solomon have been coflstant sources of both inspiration as well as helpful cdticism. Rai Madhok has been a consultant and confidant for a long time, as well as a tireless editor.

Mike Vance did vitat proofreading at the last momeflt, elevating the entire proiect in the process. My publisher, Gabe Faiuri, whipped the entire work into fine shape, inside and out. Owen Packard not only made me look good on video, he relendessly pushed for more and more promotion. He made the Magic Seen arrd MAGIC MagaTine cover stories possible.

The ever-creative card star, Liam Montier, is one to watch. Other than my own stuff, there are three tricks that

I

do whenever

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can' One

of them is Liam's.

John Bannon

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The Royal Scam...3

Duplicig,...14

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Srx. tr.,rpossrBLE. THINGs. (zoog)

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Counterpun ch. . .25 Four Faces North...31 \X/atching the Detectives.

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NewJax...38 Full Circle...42 Origami Poker Revisited. . .44 Riverboat Poker...46 The Einstein Overkill.

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Opeu AND NoroRtous (zoog)

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Opening the Open Predictron...59

Fiftr-One Fat Chances...61 Que Ser6 Ser6...65

View to a 'Skill...69

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MEGA rWAVE (2010)

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Nlega lMave...81

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Fractal Re-CaII...91

Short Attention Scam. ..99 Mag-7...105 FractalJacks...109 Wicked! (Itanspositio n)

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BuLrEr PARrY (2011)

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BulletPargr. ..121

Bullet Catcher...1.31,

Drop Target Aces...135 Four ShadowAces...141 Flipside Assembly.. . 148 Big Fat Bluff Aces.. .154

BoxJumper...161 Fat City Revisited.. .169 Poker Pairadox Redux. ..175

Question Zero...182 Elias Multiple Shift. . .186

Crocodile False Cut... 189 Flytrap False Cut...192

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B'rairiac. ..1.97 Short Attention Spin. ..206

Montinatot 5.0...21.0

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Aces Over E asy Q010). . .217 One of the Better Losers Q012)...220

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Buf'd...237

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Ot g^-i Poker Revisited...244 Ion Man...253 Bannon at the Sidebar

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Madhok)...260

(2012)

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Spin Doctor...265 Power

of Poker...278

Bannon Ttiumph...285

Fnctal Recall (R.emix). . 289 .

Orrgr-i Prediction.

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