Product Description
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY ...Michael Breggar's unexplainably popular books are now all available as PHYSICAL COPIES on aglobal basis! All of Michael's Pulitzer Prize losing books, from The Five Roads to Vegas toRaiders of the Lost Card are available at your favorite magic shop. Get this - they are probablyalso available at your least favorite magic shop too!
All books (except RAIDERS) have been personally SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Books like this do not come along too often. That's a good thing because voluntary illiteracy wouldincrease. Michael Breggar, author of such litter box liners as Influence-Enza, Dancing with the Cards, andthe eminently forgettable Back to the Launching Pad and The Five Roads to Vegas, has produced a newwork. He calls it his magnum opus. After you read it, you'll want to drink a magnum of Opus.
With The Expert at the Cod Table, Michael has Scuba'd his way through thousands of non-existentpages by a non-existing gambler, author and musical saw aficionado to bring you his latest collection of -shall we say - "unique" - card magic.
You'll soon hold in your greasy little hands an InstaPot-pourri of remarkable, professional routines thatyou may be only a little bit embarrassed to perform.
Let's not be koi, as in Michael's previous literary outings this book is quirky, fun and funny. You'll findpoker routines that give the power of the card shark to your volunteers (who's the "expert" now, Moses?),mentalism routines, a couple of unique ACAANs, a few off-the-edge thought-of-card divinations witheven edgier revelations, a crazy routine that starts as a carny-game scam and rapidly turns into animpossible prediction, a card stab using a guest-check spindle liberated from your neighborhooddelicatessen and even a word routine using cards with Scrabble tiles printed on them! Plus, a return visitfrom Michael's Martian friend, Vemple Paranozzle who shows how he (or she or it) is compelled to dealhimself (or herself or itself) winning poker hands even when he (or she or it) always gets fewer cards thaneveryone else!
Fifteen routines in all and everyone is 24-karat solid goldfish.
Through all this, you'll also find some semi-solid thinking, effect construction, new methods and lostmethods re-porpoised. And for you history buffs, there's even a bio of the enigmatic S. W. Ordfishhimself (at least as much as Michael felt like making up).
You need to dive right into this fine kettle of fish.
Quick ... before your air runs out!
Here's what a few blowfish have already said about The Expert at the Cod Table:
"I do enjoy reading good writing and I enjoy reading your books. You sure are one heck of a funnyguy! Started chuckling almost immediately and really laughed out loud at '... he was confused with ahat-rack'! Well done!"
- Harry Lorayne
"Not all magic books are fun to read, but this is one that's fun to read and is as much fun to play with thepieces and create some antic fun for the audience."
- Jon Racherbaumer
"The Expert at the Cod Table is a true tour-de-fish of pescatarian prestidigitation. This book is filled withPhilly-centric references, bad puns and some great card magic of the non-sleight variety...what could bebetter. Well written, fun scripts, wonderful plotz. It is one of the most original and enjoyable reads I'vehad in magic.... Now if I could just get that smell off my hands."
- Marc DeSouza
"Mike Breggar's new book, The Expert at the Cod Table, is loaded with solid card magic that involvesappealing presentations and plots without sleight of hand. The book is also a very entertaining read,especially if you enjoy a good pun. Why purchase this book? Maybe just for the halibut. Or possibly tobecome a serious card shark. No crappie tricks here."
- Mike Powers
"Once again Mike Breggar brings us another fantastic collection of material that's strong, funny and veryentertaining. You will use many of the items in this new eBook."
- John Carey
"I knew that Michael was onto a winner as soon as I saw the title of his latest book, The Expert at theCod Table, which is spuriously attributed to S.W. Ordfish ... After reading through the laugh-out-loudopening piece "Who was S.W. Ordfish?", I was already thoroughly impressed. Michael's own "Hard ofHerring" preface continues the madcap humor, and in the material that follows he ensures that those of uson a quest for entertaining magic come home with a good catch in our fishing bucket.... Oh, but you wantto know about the magic? There's over a hundred pages altogether, with 15 different routines, in whatmight be Michael's best book yet. It's certainly his longest. This book has confirmed that MichaelBreggar is the kind of guy I want in my boat when I'm out fishing for entertaining magic."
- EndersGame, Magic and Boardgame Reviewer
"Books like this don't come along very often...not counting Michael Breggar's four previous eBooks.But they are well written, light yet esoteric guidebooks to enlightened entertainment with the pasteboards.Unlike most guidebooks that list "effect" then "explanation" with a possible patter presentation thrown infor the uninspired, Michael's books jump right into the full presentation with explanations and creditsadded to delight and fulfill the soul. Each presentation is well thought out and completely satisfying....Michael has taken his years of thought, study and performances to bring together, overlay and intertwinediverse ideas adding the right seasoning into a cohesive and pleasantly satisfying fish stew that is "Expertat the Cod Table." ... This is a fun read from start to finish even if you don't perform one of his routines.His writing is clever, tongue-in-cheek, and pithy. This is a guidebook for anyone angling to make areputation with a pack of cards. My suggestion: perch ace this cod book today!"
- Scott Wells
"In The Expert at the Cod Table Mike Breggar has served up a delectable assortment of easy to mastercod mackerels. Mike employs simple yet devious methods to accomplish entertaining and deeply foolingcard magic. His engaging and humorous style of writing made learning fun. I was hooked from the verybeginning."
- Rudy Tinoco, Founder (themagicforum)
"There are guys out there capable of working absolute miracles with a regular deck of cards. I'm not oneof them. But Mike Breggar's carefully constructed (and joke-filled) plots make it possible for guys likeme to be able...if only for a moment...to pretend that I'm one of them. Swordfish!"
- Steve Friedberg,President, Ring 6 (2020) International Brotherhood of Magicians
"Would somebody please tell Michael Breggar that magic books aren't supposed to be funny? I startedreading The Expert at the Cod Table with my afternoon milk and cookies, and promptly ruined a brandnewdeck of Jerry's Nuggets! Fortunately, the man also knows his magic; there's some deep stuff here, sonet yourself a copy. You'll have a whale of a time."
- Anthony Vinson
Here's what's on the plate:
The Expert at the Cod Table. You show your audience how card sharps through the ages havemanipulated the cards to their advantage. Then you give your volunteer the power! After a strong practicehand, she somehow deals out any poker hand called for by the audience!
What's Inside My Fish Sandwich. Breathing new life through the gills of an old Harry Lorayne routine.A predicted card is located along with the mates.
I Get By With a Little Help from My Fish. A cool "spelling" routine. Except this time a randomlynamed magician spells to the selected card.
Venn the Magician Came to Town. A card merely thought of is discovered using the magic of a VennDiagram.
Nay-CAAN. The anti-ACAAN routine! Any card is named, but it's only found at the third namedlocation.
No One Likes Me. The real reason why people don't invite me to play cards with them anymore. Weird,because I empower the spectators to cut to and spell to the Aces!
Hot Dates. A birthdate or a random date from a calendar gives you the exact position of a predicted card.
The Tally Special. A magical tribute to the best play of the best Super Bowl game! Harry Lorayne andHenry Christ's "Tally-Ho" is given some PEDs and taken to a whole new level of touchdown beauty!
Too Much Information. Trying to receive the image of a card thought-of by a spectator, you receivemore information including their latest debaucheries and the thought-of card's position in the deck.
Neo's Treasure Chest. Cards selected at random are compiled to form the combination of a padlockwhich has sealed a wooden box. Good thing too - you've accidentally locked your spectator's phones inthis box!
Something Fishy This Way Comes. You "treat" your audience with some "fixed" Carny-game scamsbefore you blow 'em away with an impossible prediction.
Martian Poker. My favorite Martian, Vemple Paranozzle, returns. This time trying NOT to deal the bestpoker hands to him (or her or it) self.
Sometimes the Fish Catch You. A fully shuffled deck is handed to you where you predict the future offour spectators. Including that one spectator you just can't get a read a on!
Swordfish. A trip to the delicatessen arms you with the guest check spindle next to the cash register.With it you perform a rather fishy card stab!
Scrabblectic. A set of Scrabble letters is totally randomized and selected; then given a further completemix. Yet they still spell out something special.
--added to catalog: 08/25/2025
--SKU: MMSI-79256
--Brand: Michael Breggar
--Ebay Cat: 15 Close-Up --Ebay Cat#: 3497639819
