REQUIREMENTS: A miniature deck of cards with a duplicate (say the 4H); A Poker size deck of cards; A double-backed card (Poker size, same color as the deck); You also need a small piece of double-sided adhesive tape (or a small dab of magician's wax).
SET-UP: Place one 4H on top of the small deck and set the deck aside. Hold the other small 4H face up below the face down regular size deck in the left hand dealing position. The double-backed card is then place on top with the tape or wax.
PERFORMANCE: Spread the regular deck between the hands and invite the spectator to take a card. As he removes the card, separate the deck in two, having the top portion in the right hand. As the spectator shows the card, the right fingers slide the small card (4H) below the right hand cards.
Have the card replaced onto the left hand cards, place the right hand cards on top, assembling the deck. This action places the face up small 4H directly on top of the spectator's card. Leave the deck on the table.
Show the small deck and shuffle it leaving the 4H on top. Keep the deck face down in the left hand dealing position. Have a spectator cut the deck more or less in half and turn this portion face up onto the face down remaining cards. Immediately turn the left hand palm down (turning the deck as well) and spread the cards across the table.
Take the first face down card (which will be the 4H, apparently cut at random by the spectator) and place it face up onto the regular size deck so it adheres to the tape (or wax).
Pick up the regular size deck and hold it in the left hand dealing position. Perform the J.K. Hartman Blow Away Change: Grip the top card with the right hand at the right corners as in figure 1. Bring the deck towards your face in order to blow on the deck. During the move, quickly turn the card over towards the left as if closing a book, ending up in the position shown in figure 2. When you lower the deck, the small card has disappeared (really, having flipped over the top card, it is now underneath the top, double-backed card.)
Dribble the cards from the right hand into the left hand until you see the face up 4H in the middle of the deck. Cut the deck at this point and have the card that is beneath the small card taken. Ask for the name of the selected card and, sure enough, it is the one found by the small card.
At the same time you have plenty of time to palm out the top card and get rid of it.
