Card Tricks

Effect:
You wave your hand up and down and as if from nowhere a card appears. Equipment needed for the trick: A playing card, A paper clip, An elastic band and a small piece of card that fits around HALF of one of your middle fingers.
Secret Preparation:
Before you perform take the small piece [...]

REQUIRED: 1 Poker deck of cards.
PREPARATION: Pull two pair of similar looking cards from the deck, i.e.. the 9 of Spades & 9 of Clubs plus the 6 of Spades & the 6 of Clubs. The cards are combined as follows:
The 6 of Clubs and the 9 of Spades. The 6 of Spades [...]

Deal 3 cards face up in a row, and continue dealing until you have 3 columns of  7 cards each. Then find the card the easy way. Ask the spectator to remember any one of the visible cards and to point out its column. Close up each column and combine them into a packet of [...]

Effect: The magician lets the spectator choose a card, which is memorized and put back into the deck. The magician then puts the deck back into the card box and slips it into his pocket. He then claps his hands and points to a nearby table where an orange is sitting. He tells the spectator [...]

For this trick you need to know what a overhand shuffle is. You should also know that you can maneuver the top card to the bottom easily. And the bottom card to the top.

Therefore, it may appear that you have mixed the cards after performing the overhand shuffle twice, when actually you still have [...]