Convincing Control

Convincing Control is a card control or cull, named by Ed Marlo, which secretly gets a selected card from a face down in the hands spread to the bottom of the deck while in the act of closing the fan.

Marlo created it based on a description told to him by Alton Sharpe (not the method, just what he had seen from a spectators point of view) about a move he had seen Larry Jennings do.

Publications

• Hofzinser cull ?
• "Card in the Aces" trick (part eight of Willane's Methods for Miracles series) by Edward Victor (1952) Victor describes the same method up to the point of closing the spread.
• Convincing Control by Ed Marlo in Hierophant No. 3 (1970)
• Immediate Bottom Placement by Larry Jennings in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings (1986) and again in Jennings '67 (1997)
• The Convincing Control in Card College, Vol. 3 (1998)

Variations

• Backslip Control by Jean Hugard in Royal Road to Card Magic (1948)
• New Convincing Control by Allan Ackerman in Here's My Card (1978)
• The Losing Control by Lee Asher & Allan Ackerman in Hand Jobs (2001)

References

• Secret Moves in Marlo's Magazine, Vol. 3 (1979)
• On the Spread Cull by Jon Racherbaumer & New Approach Convincing Controls in Marlo's Magazine, Vol. 5 (1984)
• Jennings '67 (1997)

• http://archive.denisbehr.de/archive/route/entries.php?url=10,745,463,543,544