Scoundrels Touch by Sheets, Hadyn and Anton

To further your education on the classic shell game, Chef Anton, Whit Haydn, and Bob Sheets offer this excellent follow-up to their first rate "An Introduction to the Shell Game: Volume 1." This second two-disc DVD set offers some new moves, a powerful system that makes you virtually unbeatable, and in-depth discussion of the topic that includes outs, ruses and working the game.

In a Nutshell

Most of disc one is dedicated to Sheet's enhancements to his first rate "Absolutely Nuts" shell game routine. You'll learn a new variation on his acquitment, which allows you to show a shell empty when it's not, which he taught in the first volume. Most important is the presentation of the shell game that unknowing to spectators, rings in an additional pea. Add Haydn's moves, ruses and maneuvers, and spectators won't have a chance.

You get to see the routines of all three performers, complete with patter, along with the various setups for the street, as well as devices that can help you hold out and ring in peas. There's a lot on the psychology and philosophy of the game, which culminates in an intriguing video of "Gambling Sam," a real life shell game hustler, which shows him in action working the game for money, complete with shills.

For more study, both discs serve pdf files that you can access on a computer that additional various training aids, which are a big help, as well as the moves and maneuvers from Volume one. While you don't necessarily need to already understand the fundamentals that are taught in the first DVD, it probably helps.

If you like the shell game, you will find lots to like in this two-disc set.

MSRP: 55.00

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