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

• The same basic control, which most refer to as the "Hofzinser Spread Cull" was in the effect "Synonymous Thoughts" (First Method) which was printed in English in the The Sphinx for April 1922.
• "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