Fred Kaps performing 7 card gypsy monte

[Razamabaz]

Absolute brilliance.

[georgebanksesq]

Utterly superb.

[monkey505boy]

I feel bad for you guys who have only seen the pitiful "magic" of David Blaine or Chris Angel. Watch the videos and see how this elderly man blows you away with no camera tricks or stooges. Simple tricks are miracles in Kaps' hands.

[icantfite]

wtf!?! tht was really unexcpected i thought the card was up he sleeve or something but all the cards just randomly become jacks? weird!

[RS1963]

@icantfite Nope they weren't up his sleeve. 

[sliverboy]

Wow, amazing effect

[dimabbq]

Just genius Mr Kaps...

[Taj3d]

Flawless handling by the Dutch master. Kaps transforms these effects into miracles.

[gbc77000]

Yeah, you're right edxulito this is shit. Fred Kaps will never amount to anything. Stay on Ellusionist you dumb little bastard before you make me laugh my ass off some more!!!

[mackd0g]

Wow. Brilliant piece of magic...is this published anywhere?

Ssamonoske I assume you're talking about the Ortiz effect done with Tarot cards, where Darwin talks about playing a game with the devil. That is definitely not the same handling as this effect.

I don't understand the reference to Darwin publishing other people's material. He's got a pretty good reputation for giving credit to my knowledge...methinks you're talking when you should not be talking EssexBoy.

[RS1963]

@mackd0g Actually Darwin says right in the book that the effect is actually the Kaps handling with a few changes that Darwin made to the effect.

[frenchbullfrog]

best Wild card routine period!

[Ssamonoske]

vid is workin for me, just buy an ortiz book scams and fantasies if u wanna learn how to do this.

[EssexBoy696969]

Darwin Ortiz publishing someone else's material?

oh my God....what a surprise!

[gaafman]

For now this video suddenly stopped working. I will look into it. Other videos in my account of fred kaps are still working. So you might want to check them out.

[spiritmeeting]

gaafan thank you very much for this video...

i dont like talking about spoilers but if anyone is interested in discussing this routine further msg me...

[bigpatdave]

spiritmeeting -- did you get my msg on this great routine?

[Ssamonoske]

By the way did anyone get the irony of the fact that kaps is using his version of hammans false count during the routine, made me laugh my ass off.

[vardo5]

thanks so much for this man!!

[sirandum]

Fred Kaps is a mastermind of magic. iF Houdini is the father of modern magic but Fred Kaps is his husband. Seriously though, He took magic and made an art form. No matter what he did you would watch him and time would stop. Thank you.

Sir Andum

[EssexBoy696969]

I don't know about 'Houdini' being the Father of magic; by all accounts (of Dai Vernon and others) his magic was pretty woeful and he was an absolute pig of a character!

I assume you mean Robert Houdin?

By the way, this effect shown was the brainchild of the great UK Master Peter Kane - also the originator of the Wild Card effect (although Frank Garcia in the US tried to steal his tunder by saying it was his 3 years after it appeared firstly by Kane in Jean Hugard's Magic Monthly in 1964).

[EssexBoy696969]

Kaps took a standard effect here and made it his own....by adding presentation and much cleaner, positive, direct handling.

That's why he was the greatest of all time.

[ForeverMAGIC1]

I personaly wouldn't call him the ALL TIME GREATEST EVER, but he is really super gooood!

Nicest Wild Card routine I've seen...

[Madjeh]

wow excellent trick,

the preformance was great too