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Besides misdirection there is also a lot of plain training, if you are into card tricks you will find this video quite entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_O8G5V_Tc

it is amazing how he can just say "I am picking up X cards" or "you put card in position Y", that must've taken a LOT of time to learn how to do...

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I spent a few hours trying to learn how to gracefully lift two cards off the top of a deck as if I took only one card. A few hours later, I was just starting to be able to tell the difference between one card, two cards, and three cards against my thumb without looking. My conclusion was that I was at least many more hours away from being able to consistently lift two cards and yet more hours away from making it look like one.

After trying to learn this one single trick for so many hours, I have nothing but respect for people who can do it on stage.

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