> Knowing how it is done makes it _more_ impressive to me.

I agree to an extent: The choice of the number in his ACAANs makes me always wonder how he would recover from a "bad" spectator.

What always impressed me even more was Tamariz' handling of the Mnemonica stack. For example, he could ask to name a card and could immediately bring it to the top of the stack with one cut in a second.