Hi, I'm Steven de Lear and this is Travelling Chips.
As you have seen in the trailer, this is a very visual tree fly routine
done with just poker chips, which makes it very visual and fun, practical to perform.
So, let us see what you have received inside the box.
These are three regular poker chips.
It's a red one, a green one and a white one.
They're all magnetic.
And also this very special gimmick, and that's the one here.
So, actually what we have done is we glued
onto the red one half of a white poker chips.
You can see here this is also magnetic.
And it's about one millimeter, if you look very closely, glued onto the edge.
So, when you put it like this, the angles are pretty good.
So, the basic idea of this effect is that when you put a poker chip like this,
you see of course the double poker chip.
So, it looks like two whole poker chips.
But if you turn it around like this, it is only one.
So, the basic move is going to be from this position.
Just when you lay down very slowly, it disappears
and it appears to be just one poker chip.
And that's basically the whole idea of this trick.
It is based on Carter Pounder of Paul Wilson, but this is just a more visual way
to do it with these three colorful poker chips.
So, let us see how this routine looks like in real life performances.
So, sleeves are rolled up.
You only have three chips.
And I will show you how you can cheat as a
magician in a casino, while stealing the chips.
One by one, I will actually steal one poker chip and put it inside my sleeve.
Just watch this.
Sleeves is rolled up.
I just have the white, red, and the green.
Watch the first one.
It goes like here, inside, and it's back here at my fingertips.
Did you miss that one?
Let's do it again.
Watch.
That's the white one and the red one.
I have the green one over here, just like this.
I sleeve it and that's the second one.
If you miss that again, no problem.
Watch.
I will do it a little bit faster now.
Watch this one.
Very visual now.
One, two, three.
And now this chip has gone here.
Let's make it more difficult and let's really clip the chips in this way,
so it's impossible to steal them, right?
In fact, I will try to retrieve the white one.
I will put it inside and let's place it back to the red and green one.
Watch.
Very slowly, very slowly, it comes back and that's the third one.
And that's what you can do with this red, green, and white poker chip.
My name is Craig Petty.
Congratulations on picking up the traveling chips.
This is an amazing product and I want to do a couple of things for you.
So first of all, we're going to take a more detailed look at Stephen's routine,
kind of break down a couple of the moves.
Then I'm going to actually talk to you about my version of traveling chips,
which kind of changes the the way that it's done slightly.
So it adds a couple of moments and cleans a couple of things up, in my opinion.
And then finally, we're going to talk about a bonus
routine that you can use for your traveling chips as well.
So you've already seen Stephen's amazing performance.
We're going to just take a more detailed look at his routine first of all.
So you already know what the gimmick looks like.
This is the gimmick, which is obviously based on Quarter Pounder by R.
Paul Wilson.
So in Stephen's routine, the red chip is not really used.
So we're going to, as I say, take a more detailed look at it.
So you bring the three chips out.
Now I want to talk a little bit about how you actually hold this chip in your hand,
because Stephen talked about how this part, the white part of the red chip,
is towards your fingers, which is correct.
And you can have it there.
But one thing I try to do is I try to cover the angles completely.
So what I do is I bring my little finger and my
forefinger up to the sides, ever so slightly like that.
You can hardly tell, but that's technically a purse palm.
When you hold something like this, it's a purse palm.
Means that you can turn your hand over.
It's not going to move.
But having that little finger raised up slightly, having that forefinger raised up
slightly, just kind of covers more of the angles.
Now, the placement of the red chip isn't important.
You can have it up here.
You can have it back here.
I like to have it more towards the fingers, right?
Now, so you bring out the first chip.
You bring out the second chip and the third chip.
And this just looks like a stack of three chips.
Now remember, it's white, green and red.
So you can show the white one like this.
You can show the green one like this.
You can't show the red one like this.
But if you do a casual gesture, you go, look,
so I've got three chips, white, green and red.
It all looks good.
So in Stephen's routine, he starts off by saying, I'm going
to try and make these chips go up my sleeve like this.
That's what's going to happen.
And that's the first move.
Now, what's happening here is the white chip ends up in a
classic palm and you have these three chips held like this.
Let's just break that move down slightly.
So we've got the stack of three chips, right?
What's going to happen is you pick up the white chip
and you say, this chip is going to go up my sleeve.
And in the larger action of gesturing up the sleeve, this gets classic palmed.
Now, if you are concerned about a classic palm, please don't worry because in my
routine, we do not use classic palm at all.
So do not worry.
But to go through classic palm briefly, you're holding the chip here between the
middle finger, the index finger and the thumb.
And what you're going to do is as the hand comes up here, you're going to palm this
chip into classic palm.
So effectively, what's going to happen is you're going to push that chip there into
the palm of the hand.
That's classic palm.
But your fingers stay together with your thumb behind the
fingers as if the chip is being held sort of in that position.
So you pick up the white chip and you say, look,
the white chip's going to go up the sleeve.
And as I say, it's going to go up the sleeve.
The palm is being done.
So when I come back down, they think it's still
in the same position, but it's actually there.
Now in a continuing action, you're going to come over the two chips that are here
and you're going to pick them up and rotate them upwards.
Let me just come around here like this for you.
You rotate them upwards like this.
And how you're holding this is the thumb here, the forefinger there.
And that's very deceptive.
That looks like you just put the white chip back, but it's actually in classic
palm, which means that you can then do the first move.
So in full speed, it looks like this.
I'm going to take this white chip.
I'm going to make it go up the sleeve.
It's going to be absolutely amazing.
Watch, you can see the white chip there.
It looks like this.
Now in terms of vanishing that chip, this is in classic palm here.
You've got this in this position like this.
You're showing the three chips.
Technically, all you're going to do is you're going to open up your hand.
So you're going to open up your hand, but how these drop is important.
You don't want it to drop like that because you want
that white part in the same position as it was before.
So you're showing the chips like this.
When you open your hand, you just want to make sure that the
white part is back in the same position as it was before.
And your thumb moves the green chip back.
Moving that green chip back slightly completely covers all the angles.
And it looks like that white chip just vanishes.
So you're going from here to here.
And it looks very, very deceptive.
Now, as you do that, you're producing the chip, the white chip from under the arm.
And it looks like that first white chip has travelled up the sleeve.
So in full speed, I've got three chips.
Now the white one is actually going to go up here.
Watch, you can see it there.
And all we do is this and it goes up the sleeve.
Okay, so that's the first move.
Now, like I said, if you struggle with classic palm, and a lot of people do,
please don't be concerned.
We're going to cover that later on.
Now, your second chip.
So you put the white chip back onto the hand.
And what you're going to do now is it's going to look like you just take the green
chip away, leaving two here.
But in reality, you've taken two.
Now, how are you going to do this?
Very simply, you've got the three chips stacked up.
Your right hand is just going to come down on the stack of three chips.
Okay?
And all you're going to do is you're going to pick this entire stack up.
So if I do it like this, you'll see.
We're going to pick this entire stack up.
I'm going to take the white chip in finger palm as I take this green chip away.
Okay?
So we're taking the white chip into finger palm as I take this green chip away.
If I do it from this angle, you should be able to see it.
I take the white chip as I take this green chip away.
Okay?
Which is slightly different to the way that Stephen
suggested doing it, but this makes it a lot easier.
Okay?
So you're here, you come over, and you come up like this.
It looks like you've just taken that green chip into this hand.
We've already got the white chip there.
Now, in Stephen's routine, he has the second chip go up the sleeve.
So it looks like this.
Let me explain what's happening here.
The left hand, super simple.
All the left hand's going to do is open up like that.
And notice when I allow that to drop, my fingers take that same position as
before, that kind of purse palm style position, right?
So it's like this, here, here.
So all the left hand's doing is it's opening like that.
Now the right hand, what's going to happen here with the right hand, and if I turn my
hand over, you'll see, I'm just going to add
that white chip to the bottom of the green chip.
Now this is actually used by a lot of people that do three-fly.
It's a simple thing to do.
It becomes easier the bigger the coin is.
So because we're using chips, it's actually very easy.
What's going to happen, notice I'm holding the green chip between my thumb and my
forefinger, and the white chip's in my finger palm.
You're going to come back like this.
You're moving your middle finger slightly out the way.
And you're going to come back here, and you're going to use your middle finger
to push that white chip onto the bottom of the green chip.
Now it only takes a split second.
And from the front, it doesn't look like you do anything.
Now you do that at the same time as you do this.
So full speed, you come over, you take the green chip, you've got the other two here,
you do that.
It looks like the second one has gone.
Okay, or looks like it's gone up the sleeve again.
Now you drop the green one on the hand, you drop the white one on the hand,
and if you look at the live performance footage, you'll see that Stephen actually,
he does that green chip again, that phase again effectively, but rather
than going up the sleeve, he has it going to the other hand.
It is effectively the same thing.
So you put your hand over here, you come up like this, you take that green
chip away, so the white one's in finger palm.
And all he does here is you're going to do that, you're going to have that white chip
go to the bottom of the fan, like so, as you just open your hand.
So you go bonk, and it looks like it jumps over there.
Okay.
Now the final one in Stephen's routine, he drops the green chip on top of the red
chip, and he clips this white chip here between the forefinger and the middle finger.
Okay.
And now what's going to happen is, and let me just put this down for a second
so I can show you, he takes these two chips and
effectively you're going to push them out here like this.
Okay.
So what's happening is, remember that this one has got the half and half piece on it,
so you're kind of in this position, you're just going to
pick up these chips and put them through a exposed angle.
You're going to put them through here like this.
So if you look at the front of the hand, you see three.
If you look at the back of the hand, you see two.
It's actually really nice from an angle's point of view.
So he does that, but he does it as he's holding onto the white chip.
So as the white chip is being displayed here, he moves this into position here.
Okay.
So this is the kind of the position.
And then he says the white one is going to go down the sleeve into the hand.
And all you do is, as you bring your right
hand up here, you classic palm the white chip.
So you come up here like this, you classic palm the white chip.
Just like we did before, goes into classic palm, into classic palm the white chip.
As if you've dropped it down the sleeve, this hand
comes away with the white chip in classic palm.
And he slowly kind of goes up and down as he turns his
hand palm towards the audience to show the white chip.
Okay.
And it looks like the white chip comes into view.
And then to kind of clean up, you've got this in
classic palm here, he's going to do like a shuttle pass.
So this drops down to the fingertips.
And as this is in the fingertips, he's going to push this to the fingers,
right, as you turn your hand over.
So he does this.
And now he can show the white chip completely as you pull this into your hand.
So in full speed, this looks like this, the final one.
You're here, you pick up the white chip, you display it like this.
You put these into this position and you say, what's the white one?
We put it up the sleeve and you'll actually see
the moment that it actually travels over here.
And that's the white chip, the red chip and the green chip.
And you take this position and you're done.
Okay.
So that's Stephen's routine.
That's effectively kind of more of a broken down look at it.
Now in terms of my routine, my kind of main routine,
there was a couple of things that I wanted to achieve.
I mean, Stephen's routine is beautiful.
It's wonderful.
But for me, it's very important with this style of
routine that I have the chips examined at the beginning.
I need the chips to be examined at the beginning
and I need the chips to be examined at the end.
And the way that it's done with the original tutorial, the
chips can't be examined at the beginning or at the end.
And I wanted to make it more of a three-fly style routine.
So I didn't want to go up my sleeve to do those moments.
So what I tried to accomplish with the routine you're about
to see is I tried to basically include all of those points.
So I'll show you, I'll do a studio performance first of all of my routine.
So let's have a look at a studio performance of my handling.
We've got three chips right here.
And the first thing that would happen is I would have someone examine the red chip.
They would look at it.
They'd make sure it's okay.
Then they'd look at the green one.
They'd look at that one and make sure that one's okay.
And they'd look at the white one and then make sure the white one looks okay as well.
That's three chips.
Just like that.
And the idea is that we're going to try and make them jump.
So you can see there's nothing else in my hand.
There's nothing up my sleeve.
Just three chips and a whole bunch of magic.
Now we're going to square them up like that.
You should be able to see the three chips.
I'm going to make this hand into a fist.
So nothing can come in.
Nothing can go out.
And all I have to do is shake.
And when I do that first chip jumps into the other hand.
Now you didn't see the moment it happened.
So we'll do it again.
But this time to make it easier to follow I'll take
the green chip and put the green chip over here.
The green chip is where the white chip is going to go.
It doesn't happen on the up.
It happens on the down.
Not on the up but on the down.
That's the second one.
That's chip number two.
Leaves us with one last one.
I'm going to do this one slowly.
I want you to watch.
I've got those two there and this one here.
When this one goes into my pocket it's going to
go long distance from the pocket to the hand.
One, two, three.
And just like that, that's the three chips right there.
I can then hand those out to you and you can examine them.
That is traveling chips.
So let's break down how that routine works
and also look at a variation on it as well.
So same gimmick.
I typically have those into my right hand
pocket and I have this in my left hand pocket.
So this is in the same position but I start off with it in finger palm.
So it's in finger palm like this with the white part towards my fingers.
So I reach into my right hand pocket.
We'll pretend this is the pocket.
We reach into my right hand pocket and I bring out the three chips.
And this is designed to not use a table so it's a walk around piece.
I hand the red chip out to somebody first of all and I have them examine it.
And then I say check that out, make sure it's okay.
And I hand these to somebody else and I say you have a look at those.
And then come back to the person with the red
chip and I say is this okay and they say yes.
And I'm going to put it into this hand but really I've
switched it by using a David Roth style shuttle pass.
So effectively all that's going to happen, this hand is palm down.
I take this back and I have it in an open finger palm.
Now all that's going to happen here is the right hand is going to turn palm down.
My thumb is going to go on the chip.
And the reason my thumb goes on there is that way the chip's not going to move.
Now we'll talk about how to disguise that in a second but the thumb goes on the
chip, your right hand turns palm down as your left hand turns palm up.
Now there's a concept in magic where the larger action hides the smaller action.
Basically I want to hide the fact that the thumb's on there.
So I don't move my thumb until my right hand moves over.
The larger action of moving my right hand over hides
the fact that the thumb is going onto the chip.
So this happens and as this happens this hand turns palm up.
And the thumb being there stops the two chips from clinking against each other
because the thumb is in the way.
Now timing on this is important.
If I do this it's not very good.
You've got to get the timing right.
You get the timing right it just looks like you put it into the other hand.
Also you're looking at the audience as this happens.
So I take the red chip back.
I put it into this hand as I look to somebody over there and I say are they okay?
Now as my left hand comes forward to take these chips I gesture for them to drop.
I gesture to the spectator over here to just drop these into my hand.
As that happens my right hand is just going to drop this
either into my back pocket or into my trouser pocket.
I'm just going to literally drop it in there.
That's all that's going to happen.
It's just going to drop in there.
So in full speed you drop this out, you hand this out to somebody,
you hand these out to somebody, you take this back and do the switch and
then as they drop this into the hand you just put
your hand in your pocket and you leave that there.
Now I know, I know there's going to be people at home that are going to be
looking at this and they're going to say okay, okay that all makes sense.
That all makes sense but what's my motivation for putting my hand in my pocket?
Two things on that.
One, there is no motivation.
You don't need any motivation because everyone's attention is over there.
I just put it in my pocket.
I'm out of the frame of action.
Nobody is looking over here.
They're looking over here.
However, if you do want motivation, if you're worried about that moment,
take your three chips and put them in a purse.
Use like some sort of coin purse or a holder.
Okay and then take the chips out the purse, hand them out, do the exact same
switch with the red chip and as you pick up these two and you put them into this
hand, pick up the purse, you've still got the red chip here,
pick up the purse and put the purse away in your pocket.
You can ditch the red chip in there at the same time as you put the purse away.
I don't do that.
You don't need to do that but if you're a bit nervous and you want to include and
you know having them in a purse might mean
that you want to you keep them all together.
That's you know a good thing to do but I don't worry about it.
Okay so that's worth noting.
So that's in your pocket but they've effectively examined these chips so when
crazy stuff starts to happen they've examined them right which is important.
So now we're eliminating any sort of classic palm.
Now the thing is I can't I can't dictate how
the spectator drops these chips into my hand.
I need the white one on top of the green one.
So if they if they drop them like this and the green ones on top of the white one I
just pick them up and I just say remember three chips
different colors and I just change the position of the chips.
I want the white on top.
Now do you remember that move that we we looked at in Stephen's original routine
where we stole one of one of these chips away as we took the green one.
We're gonna do that but with one chip so we're eliminating the classic palm.
So my right hand comes over and we talked about this before but my right hand comes
over so that the chips are right there at the
base of the fingers almost like in a finger palm.
Everything comes up like this and then I just slide that white chip away.
I just slide that white chip away that's all I do.
Okay so from from this angle I'm here I just come up here like this as if I'm
squaring up the the chips but I've just slid that away into finger palm.
And finger palm is this.
This is finger palm.
It's a nice secure grip.
I just curl my fingers in slightly and that's
gonna stay there as long as I want it to.
And look at how deceptive that looks.
They see the three chips.
They've just examined them.
I bring them up here like this.
I square them up.
It doesn't look like anything's happened but this is now over here.
So I say I'm gonna make the chips jump from over here over to here and I make a fist.
And I say if I've made a fist there's no way that that chip can get into this hand.
And then all I'm going to do is I just go up
and down and on the down I'm gonna open my hand.
We talked about this before.
As I open my hand I use my thumb to pull back the green chip.
They see two and I open my hand and show the white one over there.
And it's a really cool surprise.
So in full speed you say three chips.
You guys have examined them.
I'm gonna try and make the white one jump over to here.
I'll make a fist and yet still that white one jumps over there like that.
Now I put the white one back on top of the chips in the hand and I say let's do this
again but this time I'll let you see where it's gonna go.
We'll use the green chip as a marker.
So now I'm gonna do exactly the same move as in Stephen's routine.
So I'm gonna bring my hand over like this.
I'm gonna take both chips and push the the green one to the fingertips.
So the white one's there in finger palm.
And I'm gonna go up and down and as I do I do that same move as before where I push
the white chip onto the base of the the green chip.
Okay I go up and down.
I say it doesn't happen on the up it happens on the down.
Nothing happens on the up but on the down it jumps.
And I like that moment.
I like it where you go up down.
So you've told them what's gonna happen and you literally
just move both hands at the same time up down up down.
And the larger motion if I just kept my hand
still like that you'd see me put that chip there.
You would see me put that chip into that position.
But when I I combine this with an up and a down motion it really looks quite magical.
Okay now the second sorry the third chip I again do it differently.
I hand this white chip to someone to look at.
So I put the green chip back over here.
I hand this white chip to someone to look at.
And I hold these two chips in my hand slightly differently.
I hold them like this.
And there's a couple of reasons for that.
The first reason is if you remember Stephen actually held it like this.
And my problem with that is I want people to see the palm of my hand.
And so how I got around that effectively is I have it like this.
So I'm showing them the palm of my hand.
Because people understand about palming and I
don't want them to think that I'm palming anything.
Because this is such a beautiful moment.
So by having the flat palm of my palm facing them no one's
gonna think well hang on it maybe it's hidden behind the hand.
Nobody thinks that.
But also it means that I can do a clean up.
And I can clean everything up quite naturally from that position as well.
So this white one's given out to somebody.
And all I do is I just pinch.
I do a slight body turn to the left.
So I do slight body turn to the left.
I pinch these two chips and I put them here like this.
Okay I put them here like this.
That's all I'm going to do.
Okay so I'm here like this.
So I grab these two chips.
Slight body turn to the left and I put them here like this.
That is a very good display from a angles point of view.
I then take the white chip back and I say this is gonna go long distance.
I'm gonna put this white chip into my pocket.
And what I do is I openly put the white chip
into the pocket as I do a finger palm it.
And when my hands in my pocket I grab the red chip
that's in there and I finger palm that as well.
So they're both finger palmed and I bring my right hand out.
Now no one's attention is there because as I put
this in my pocket everyone's focus is over here.
And that's where I want their focus.
And the reason I want their focus there is because
you know this is where the magic's gonna happen right.
So this hand is not important.
It's out the frame of action.
And I just go up and down and up and down.
I turn my hand over slowly and as I do the white chip comes into view.
Now I hold that position for a second and you want
to hold that position because that looks amazing.
And now I'm gonna clean up.
Now here's how it's gonna work.
We're gonna use a slight first developed by Gary Kerbs and it was used in Richard
Selvignac by Richard Kaufman in a routine called Penny Lane.
There you go.
Let's be more specific.
Your thumb is gonna go here on the two finger palm chips and you're gonna pull it
back here like this as I extend my fingers.
My thumb comes here and I extend my fingers okay.
So I'm gonna do that as I come over here.
So I've got these chips in this position.
I come here like this and let me do an exposed view.
It allows me by lifting these chips up like this, it allows me just to take
everything into this hand as if I'm grabbing everything from my fingers.
But that's gonna place the gimmick right there
at the base of all of the stack of chips.
Which means I can immediately use my thumb to push
off the first chip and I give that to a spectator.
Push off the second chip I give that to the spectator.
Push off the third chip I give that to the spectator
and I'm left holding the gimmick in this hand.
So let's show you that in full speed that cleanup.
Okay so we're here.
This is here.
I've done this.
I wait.
I pause.
I grab.
That's one.
That's two.
That's three.
And you are done.
Now this is magnetic so if you have a magnet in
your back pocket I can just swing my hand backwards.
I can attach this to the magnet and the gimmick is clean.
Nobody is looking at this hand.
Everybody is looking at these three chips.
These three chips have done something incredible.
So they're examining these.
They're looking at these.
And that for me is the most important part of this routine.
Because this routine is so visual I wanted to immediately hand those chips out.
And so by having that Penny Lane Gary Kurtz style move it allows you to
immediately take those chips out from your left hand and hand them to examination.
Now two things I want to add about this routine.
Slight variations.
The first is this.
So if we go back to this position where we're doing the first coin.
If I have a table and I have access to a table I do this every single time.
So let me show you what the first chip would look like.
I say they've just examined them and I say look three chips.
I'm going to come up here like this.
You can see the three chips right?
And I come forward and say look you can see the three chips.
Watch them as I do this.
The first one lands on the table.
And it's a really nice misdirection moment.
That's very easy to do.
All I'm doing if I've got a position where I can
do this I will do that instead of making a fist.
Because this is even better.
So what's happening here is it's the same setup.
So the same setup that we used before.
So I steal this white chip away as I square up the three.
Okay the white chips here.
I'm gonna lay my hand on the table placing this white chip on.
I don't want it to make any noise.
So you don't want to do this.
Okay don't do that.
Just very slowly drop the chip down on the table as I look here.
I lean forward and I say can you see the white chip?
And everyone's looking here and they say yes.
And my hand is going on the table to allow me to look forward.
And I say can you see the white chip?
And I say watch the white chip.
And what I do is I come back over here and I'm
creating distance from the table to the stack of three.
So I say look over here because that white chip.
And then I move this hand and I point to the chips.
I say that white chip is going to jump.
And I open my hand and I say from there to the table.
And that always gets us shocked.
Because they just... it's like how is that even possible?
So full speed you say look I'm gonna make this white.
I'm gonna make this white chip jump.
I want you to watch.
Can you see those three chips there?
You can.
Watch the white one because the white one is the one that jumps onto the table.
And I do that.
Now you don't have to do that if you don't want to.
I know that sort of misdirectional style of magic.
The sort of thing you'd see with a coin in the salt shaker, a card in the box.
I know it's a little bit nerve-wracking for some people.
Especially if you may be new into coin magic or magic like this.
So don't feel that you have to do that.
But I will always do that if I've got a table.
If I haven't got a table I'll use the original handling of just doing this.
But it's nice to be able to throw that in.
Okay now that's the first thing that I wanted to say is a variation.
The second thing is you can actually do that again.
So for the second phase you can take the green one away and rather than doing that
up and down thing you can say look I'll put the green one
on the table so you know where everything's going to be.
I'll put the green one on the table but the other two are here.
Watch.
Oh hang on a minute that's two.
One, two.
Now that's the exact same misdirection thing.
So I do the exact same thing.
So I'll steal two.
I've got two here.
I've got the green one here.
Remember the white one's in finger palm.
And as I say I'm going to put the green one on the table.
I square up the green one and the white one.
And I come up here.
I'm creating distance from the table to up here.
And I square these up and I put them down.
So if people are looking here they just see the green chip.
But I focus everyone's attention here and as I snap I open my hand they see one.
And I go look with the green one there's the white one.
So you can do it a second time.
It takes a little bit more balls to do it a second time.
I won't lie to you.
And sometimes I will sometimes I won't.
It just depends on the audience.
Now the other thing that's worth talking about with a variation is sometimes if
you're a mix and mingle performer for example and you've got crowds all around
you you might not want to use this final moment like that.
And the reason you might not want to is because if you're completely surrounded
you know this is not a good thing for people to look at from the back right.
So if you are in a situation where you're completely
surrounded let's just say we've done the classic up and down.
So let's just say we're here we've gone up and down.
The final one you can if you want to do it without that without that pinch.
So I can drop the green one there and what I can do is I can put these I can do
exactly the same thing as before but I'm not gonna change the position of these.
I'm gonna say look the last one will go long distance.
Look we've got two here.
I'm gonna put this one in my pocket so I put this in my pocket.
I finger palm the red one just like before.
So I've got both of these finger palmed and I say watch these two here because if
I just squeeze the white one jumps across and all I'm doing there and it looks like
the white ones there but all I'm doing is I'm and then I can hand them out I can do
exactly the same thing as before but what's happening is I think it's fairly
obvious what's happening you've got the two here you go as you make this fist
you're going to push these up with one hand to that position so it's a One-handed
sort of reposition.
So you've gone from here, as you make a fist, as you make a fist like this,
you've gone up here.
So you can then show the three, which is fine.
To be honest, I rarely do this.
I wanted to cover it on the tutorial for you.
I'm normally in a position where I cover the angles, but I know that there might be
people going, oh, what do I do if I've got people behind me?
This is how you deal with that, right?
So again, that goes in the pocket.
So you've got both of these finger-palmed.
You're showing the two here, and you make a fist, and
you squeeze, and you go, you're not gonna believe this.
Now I've got all three.
And they see three, right?
Which is great, because they see, because think about
it, from a spectator's point of view, they see two.
They know there's only two there.
They saw you put the white one in the pocket, and you've made this fist here
like this, and you've gone, look, boom.
And now you've come up like this, and they see three.
It's a really nice moment, and completely covers all the angles.
And then, obviously, when you go down, you can do exactly the same thing.
So you've got the three.
You hold that pose.
You've got these two over here.
You go into that same Penny Lane move.
So you can grab everything here, and you can go one, two, three,
and this can just be ditched or held out, right?
And it's a beautiful time to ditch this, because everyone's focus is there.
So that's my handling of the traveling chips routine, including multiple
variations, depending on whether you're performing
the table, without a table, all of this stuff.
I wanted to give you one more little bonus routine that I actually realised that you
could do with these chips, which is really cool.
And you're gonna need a deck of cards.
So you're gonna need a deck of cards.
You're gonna need all of the chips.
Let me explain what's gonna happen here, okay?
So you've got this deck of cards.
I believe this is a brand new deck.
Very good.
We've even got all of the advertising cards in it and stuff, but that's fine,
we're good.
So you have a deck of cards,
and this is a great thing to do in the middle of a card routine, okay?
So let's just say that we've got the cards already out.
So we've got the cards on the card box, okay?
These are here in your pocket, in the right-hand
pocket, and this is in the left-hand pocket.
So your hands go into your pockets to look for the chips.
Your left-hand finger palms here, as your right hand comes out with the
chips, and you show the three chips, and you're gonna do exactly the same thing
as before, insofar as you're going to hand the red one out.
You hand these two out, you take the red back, and you do a shuttle pass,
and you take these two back and you put them over there.
And this gets ditched into your pocket, right?
So this gets ditched into your pocket.
Now, you reposition these like this, okay?
And what you're gonna do, is you're gonna do the same steal as before.
So you're gonna come up, right?
So you remember you've got the three chips here.
You're gonna do the same steal as before, so you're gonna steal that white chip like
this, as you come up.
So that's the same as my routine, right?
But what I do, is I take the green one then, and I move it to the back, okay?
So I take the green one, and I move it to the back
like this, and then I put these chips down here.
Now I want you to see, that it looks like I've
just put a stack of three chips on the table.
But I've actually got the white chip over here, okay?
So think about it from the audience's point of view.
You bring three chips out, maybe if you, like I said, if you're worried about just
openly ditching the red one in your pocket, maybe you've took them out of a
purse, so you've opened up the purse, you've given the three chips out,
they've examined them, the red one comes back, then the white one, then the green
one, you've taken these back, you've put the purse away, you've put the red chip
over there, and then you've, so they've all been examined, and then you come up
here like this, and you say, I'm gonna square these up, we'll get back to them in
a minute, I'm just gonna put them right here.
And you've got this beautiful moment there, where
they're convinced that those are three normal chips.
Now, what I do is I need them to say white, or I need to have white picked.
So what I do is I say, I've got a favourite chip, I've got a favourite
colour out of these three chips, what's your favourite colour?
And if they say white, I go, brilliant, we'll use your favourite colour then.
My favourite colour was green, but we'll use white.
Now, if somebody says red or green, I say, well, yeah, that's fine,
but my favourite colour's white, so we're gonna use white.
There's many different ways of forcing the
colour, and it's completely up to you which one.
I like to, you know, I like to do that, but it's totally up to you.
So you want them to keep an eye on those chips.
That's a wonderful position to be in right there, because the chips have been
examined, they think the chips are perfectly okay, and
there's virtually no angle problems with that at all.
Remember this white chip's here.
So what's gonna happen is I'm gonna take the deck of cards, somebody may have been
shuffling them, this white chip's in finger palm.
I'm gonna spread the cards out, keeping this white chip
in finger palm, and I'm just gonna say, grab a card.
So they're gonna grab a card.
Doesn't matter which card, it's not a force, they can
sign it if they want to, it's completely up to you.
Now, I will tell you that it's worth, and I didn't mention this, let me just
mention it, it's worth just having about five or six cards less out of this.
So this has got the advertising cards in it, it's got the jokers in it.
What I would do with this, and you'll see why in a minute, is I would take the
jokers and the advertising cards out, and maybe
even take a couple of other cards as well.
You'll see why in a second.
So, you've got the white chip here, okay?
So remember, the white chip's in the hand, you
spread the cards out, and they take a card, okay?
And then you square them back up.
You've been hiding this white chip the whole time.
So this card is the 10 of spades.
Now you're gonna have that card returned, and
you want it to about the middle of the deck.
So you're gonna spread through and you're gonna say,
do me a favour, just say stop any time you want to.
So let's say they say stop here.
When they say stop, I'm gonna take that white chip, and I'm just going to push it
onto the bottom of that packet of cards, okay?
And it's very easy to do, because you've got all the cover of the deck.
It just looks like you're squaring up these
cards, but you've got the white chip there, okay?
From sort of this angle, you're spreading, spreading, spreading, spreading.
Let's say they want to put it back here.
I put this here, and as I square up, this is now at the bottom of this packet.
So, all I do is I come up and I have their card returned here, so the 10 of spades.
And this is here, I'm gonna put this packet on top, so that the chip goes on
top of their selected card, right?
Now that's gonna create a gap in the deck.
You want to pinch the front, because that's gonna eliminate that gap completely.
You pinch the front, and now you pick up the
box, and you put the cards inside the box.
And that is why you've taken a few cards out, because with that chip in there,
if it's a full deck completely, the cards won't fit back in.
So remember, you've got that chip there, because it was at the bottom of this
packet, and you put this packet on top and you square up.
So now, you're pinching here, you just grab the whole thing, you pinch,
you open up the card box, and you put the cards in the card box.
Now, there's gonna be a natural gap there, but if I squeeze the card box like this,
as I say, look, the deck goes in there, squeezing
the card box is gonna eliminate that gap completely.
And it's really important that you show the cards in there and you eliminate the
gap, because that's gonna be a magical moment in a minute.
So you're gonna close up the cards, and you're gonna put them right there,
and you can give them to a spectator to hold on to.
Now, here's where it gets cool.
So you're gonna lift up these like this, back into the position.
So you pick up these back into the position, and I'm gonna move the green one
back to the other side, so I can show them.
And I say, I'm gonna do this one-handed.
And as I say, I'm gonna do this one-handed, I'm gonna
put this hand in my pocket in order to do it one-handed.
So I can do this one-handed.
So this hand goes into the pocket, you're gonna finger palm this chip.
So you say, watch.
We said white earlier on, didn't we?
Yeah, okay, so we're gonna make the white one find your card.
It happens on three.
One, two, three.
And all you're gonna do is the same move as before.
You're gonna open up your hand, and it looks like the white chip has gone.
Now, I'm gonna use my thumb to flip that green chip back.
This hand comes out of my pocket, and I can display them like this if I want to.
It really looks like the white chip's gone.
And all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do a utility switch from Bobo's Modern Coin Magic.
This is in finger palm, this is loose.
It's a bit like the shuttle pass we learnt earlier.
This hand is gonna turn palm up with the real red chip.
This hand's gonna turn palm down.
This red chip is gonna get finger palmed, and the
green chip is just gonna get thrown into this hand.
It coalesces with the red chip here, and it looks like I've just thrown these
into the other hand.
And it's really important that the timing's right, because if I do this,
it doesn't look very good, right?
So you wanna go there, all right?
So in full speed, your hand goes in your pocket, you've got the three chips here,
and I say, look, I'm gonna do this one-handed.
Watch that white chip, one, two, three.
And look at that, the white chip has completely gone.
And I hand these two chips to somebody, and it
looks like the white chip has just vanished.
It's amazing.
So you hand these off to somebody, this hand then goes into your,
this hand just swings back, and you just stick it to the magnet in your back pocket.
No one's looking over here.
And again, think about how strong this moment is.
They've examined the chips, they apparently freely picked a colour,
they picked white, they see the three chips here, one-handed vanish,
boom, and now you've handed it to them, and they can see there's no white chip there.
Everyone, you focus all the attention on the pack of cards.
And everyone's attention's there.
Most people will be looking at these two chips at the moment.
You'll have people handing them out going, where's the white one gone?
Oh my God, that's amazing.
And this hand just swings back and just either ditches
that in the pocket or ditches it to a magnet on the back.
And then you focus attention on the deck.
Now this is really cool right now because you pick
up the deck, and remember that gap that was there?
When you open up the cards now, look, there's a gap in the front of the deck.
And it's like, look, do you see a gap?
Now they put two and two together and they get four.
And they're like, oh my God, no, don't tell me.
It can't be.
Oh my God.
You know, you get these crazy moments.
So now you're gonna slide these cards out slowly, put them on the table,
and you go, right, look, I'm gonna lift up at the gap.
And now the white chip has just appeared there.
That's incredible.
And you go, look, there's that chip.
And look, what was your card?
And they say, and that's their card right there.
It's such a strong moment.
Now, one other thing that you can do with this
just to, you know, just for sake of completeness.
At the very beginning, I talked about how
there's multiple ways of forcing the white chip.
You can do this at the beginning.
So you can, for example, use Equivoke.
And there's a reason I'm going to use Equivoke.
I'm going through this because this is quite cool.
So I say, right, okay.
Very quickly, it's very easy to Equivoke or magician's choice to the white chip.
I would just say, I've got three chips.
I've got three chips.
When I snap my fingers with your right hand, pick up a chip.
Now, if they pick up the white chip, you're golden.
If they pick up one of the other chips, you say, brilliant.
Now, when I snap my fingers with your left hand, pick up one of the chips.
If they pick up the green one, you're golden because that leaves the
white one on the table and you go, fantastic.
So that leaves one left, which is the white.
Let's use the white.
But if they pick up this one, you say, okay, one last choice.
When I snap my fingers, hand me a chip.
If they hand you the red one, you just take it and put it down with the green one
and you go, right, what has that left you with?
And they go, white.
And if they hand you the white one, you go, okay, brilliant.
That's the one we'll use.
Pop the red one away.
So you've forced the white chip very, very easily.
So, you know, pick up a chip, that one.
So easy.
Now you're doing that while you've got the gimmick in finger palm.
And the reason for this, if you go in Amazon or somewhere and you search for
little round stickers, you can get little round stickers
that are the size of the inside of the poker chip.
So what you can do is you can, you've got the gimmick here.
You can use Equivoke to force the white one.
And then you can say, look, I've got some stickers here.
Actually, one thing, even better.
You can then throw the red one over there, put the green one on top of it,
and you've done the switch of the red ones here.
As your hand goes into the pocket for the little sheet of
stickers, you ditch the red chip and you give them the stickers.
And you say, pick a red sticker, sorry, pick a sticker, put your initials
on it and stick it right there in the center of the white chip.
So they do.
And then you can say, great, perfect, and turn it over
and put another white sticker there and initial it.
So this poker chip, you pick the color and it's signed.
And they go, yeah.
And you go, brilliant, look, we're gonna take that white chip and we're gonna put
it in between the other two.
So now I've stolen their signed chip away, but from the audience's point of view,
it's right there.
So now I'm back into this.
So now I have them pick a card.
Let's say they pick the 10 of spades again.
I have them put it back in the pack.
They put it back here.
Remember, this is getting loaded on top.
So that gets loaded on top.
This goes here.
I can show that the deck's in there, close it up.
And now I'm into this situation where I can pick these up again.
So these get picked up again and they get put into the correct position.
And you go, remember, you picked the white one.
That was the one that was signed, wasn't it?
Watch, three, two, one.
Get this, three, two, one.
Boom, one-handed.
Look at that.
There it is, it's gone.
You do the switch.
They check it, this gets ditched.
And now, when they look here, they see the gap.
But then when you take the cards out and you cut, it's their signed chip.
The signed chip has gone into the deck.
And it's gone next to one card and one card only.
And that's their card.
And it's a great way to transition.
You can, and I'll tell you this now, as one more
thing, you can actually combine these two routines.
So you can do the first one where they jump into the other hand.
And then, don't forget, at the end of that routine, all three
of these chips are examined because you've switched them out.
So then you can say, I'll tell you what, let's try one more thing with these chips.
You can go into the Equivoke, get them to sign the chip.
You're gonna switch that one back out and go into that whole routine.
And then you've brought a deck of cards into play.
So at the end, you get rid of the chips and you now do your favourite card routine.
I suggest the 75 Phase Ambitious card.
Keep it short.
Like my tutorials.
So now that you have seen the routine of this effect, let's go to every detail and
phase of this effect so you can do it by your own.
So you start off by taking this gimmick with this half white poker chip glued to
the red one and you place it at the outside of three poker chips.
So it's like this.
And you place it inside your pocket.
You can very easily feel where the gimmick is.
And once you take it out, the gimmick with
the white one is always pointed towards you.
So place it like this.
Yes.
So with the white gimmick chip here towards you.
So the audience only sees the red poker chip.
And then you place the green one on top of it and the red one.
So you start off in your pocket.
You feel where the gimmick is.
You show your hand empty.
And now I feel the position of the white chip and I spread them over like this.
So I show the red one by lifting up the green one and the white one like this.
I place it on top.
And that's just easy like that.
So you've shown the three poker chips very casual and visual in your left hand.
Now, you're going to explain that the first poker chip is going to fly in your sleeve.
Now, while you're doing this move, of course, you're going to palm.
That's a perfect palming position for you to just palm the white poker chip.
And you come back and you grab everything like this.
So once again, I'm going to palm this white poker chip inside my sleeves,
but with the sleeves rolled up.
And in this move, you just palm the white poker chip.
And for the audience, it seems like you just place all the three chips on top of
each other and it's inside your left hand here.
So they're seeing the white one, the red one and the green one.
The right hand relaxes like this and now very casually place everything back.
You let it fall and that's just it.
So the white gimmick just is again to watch you.
You do like this.
You pretend as if you're sleeving the gimmick
and then you're retrieving it back like this.
So you palm, place everything back, sleeve rolled up.
You let it fall just like this and then you retrieve it from your sleeve.
So that's actually basically for the first phase of this routine.
So let's go further and let's go to the next phase.
So for the next phase, you're going to actually steal the
white and the green one but you're hiding the white one.
Okay, just like this.
So they're in this position.
You place them on top of each other.
You place everything inside your left hand and you push just the gimmick with the
white and the red one here and only showing the green poker chip in your right hand.
So the white one is just here.
And for the audience, the white and the red one are in
your left hand and the green one is in your right hand.
So this technique is just the same as the first phase.
You're going to just release it very slowly.
You let it fall into your left hand.
So the gimmick stays behind.
The audience sees that the white chip has vanished.
And once again, you come over like this and you produce
the white hand from in your hand just like this.
Now, if you want, you can make this second phase more visual.
By doing the same moves, you just place the gimmick inside your left hand.
You show the green one.
But now you're going to do a more visual tree flight where you just do it like this.
So it's an instant fly of the white chip.
So you have the white one, the red one seemingly,
but this is the gimmick and the green one over here.
And just producing the white chip like this, it looks like it goes very rapidly
from one hand to the other.
So that's a variation for the second phase of this routine.
Now, for the third phase, things get really
interesting because you're going to clip now the chips.
So which make it more difficult for the audience to do something like slide of
hand or to make the chips move fast from one hand to the other.
So when you are clipping these chips, it's more delicate.
You have to turn it a little bit to watch yourself.
So now half of the gimmick is now clipped and it's behind your hand.
Also, you are going to move the green chip a little bit to the right.
So it makes the angles more better.
So it's more angle proof when you push the green chip to your right.
And now in this way, you can actually show very openly all the poker chips like this.
And it seems like you cannot do anything anymore.
So the green one and the red one over here, the white one over here.
You show both hands, apparently empty, which
they are as well, hiding just this white part.
And then you're going to say the most difficult thing is to retrieve this white chip.
You're going to pretend to put it inside your sleeve.
Once again, it's bound here.
And now the only thing you have to do is just very slowly turn your hand.
And then the white chip appears.
Now, when you come over to retrieve the white one, you
just release the white one here in your right hand.
You let it fall and you do kind of a shuttle pass and you show the white chip.
So I do this again.
The audience sees the two chips.
The white chip is just palmed in your right hand.
Very slowly, the white one appears again.
And then you retrieve it doing the shuttle pass.
You can now spread all the poker chips back into your left
hand, showing the red one, the green one and the white one.
And if you want, but it's just a suggestion, you can just steal the red one
with a magnet behind to just show it to the audience as to prove it.
So you can do shuttle pass again and now you can give it away.
So they can check all the poker chips out.
This is optional.
I don't really think that you have to do it, but the option is there since we have
put a magnet inside here.
So at the end of the trick, it just ended.
You steal the red one from behind your back with a magnet.
You do the kind of shuttle pass and you can give it out as examination.
So there's a little variation as well to do the ending of the trick.
You can do multiple...
You can use multiple handlings for that to make it more visual.
So once you have clipped these chips like this, you have shown both hands empty.
You pretend to put it inside your sleeve and to retrieve.
You can actually suggest that you're going to retrieve it just
by lowering down your hand like this and then picking it up.
So it's more like a fast way to do it.
So once again, you suggest that you're going to let it fall from your sleeve,
just like this, and then you pick it up like this.
And then after that, you do again your shuttle pass
and you spread the poker chips just on your left hand.
So once again, it's up over here.
These are clipped just like this.
You pretend to put it inside your sleeve.
And now you say, I'm going to retrieve it from my sleeve.
One, two, three.
And you pick it up really fast.
And then you do the shuttle pass and you
spread the three poker chips in your left hand.
If you want, you can also use another technique.
You can just use more like a throwing technique like this.
Okay, so the first technique was very slowly like this.
The second technique is just a catching technique.
And now you can also use like more like a throwing technique that it shoots out of
your sleeve and then do again the shuttle pass.
So those are the variations that you can use while retrieving the last poker chip
in a very visual way where the poker chips are just clipped between your fingers.
Okay guys, that was it.
I hope you have as much fun as I have while performing this effect.
As you have seen, it's a small miracle that lives inside your pocket.
It's very visual to perform.
It's very fun.
You can do it whenever you want, ready to perform.
And it gets great reactions.
It's very practical.
It's so visual that you can do it anywhere.
It comes with this little story where magician can steal from the casino.
So people can really relate to this.
I hope you have tremendously fun with it, performing it.
Please do leave a review and let people know where you can find the best magic.
So I hope to see you another time.
Wish you all the best.
Bye-bye.
So that's a few bonus ideas for you.
A fantastic little card reveal that you can do.
My version of the traveling chips.
A little bit of clarity on Stephen's version as well.
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