The effect described above is available to learn in Volume #1 of The Royal Road to Mentalism.
It can be also done with billets or index cards – it’s not limited to just playing cards.
It’s interesting because, to a magician, a card trick is a card trick.
But to a mentalist, a card trick is a demonstration of an incredible ability – that just happens to use cards.
The methods may be the same, but the presentations are worlds apart.
This means that by knowing basic mentalism techniques, nuances and presentations, you’ll be able to take existing sleights and methods that you may already know and create limitless performance pieces out of them.