The Card­pool Convention

I am pon­der­ing all the time whether or not to attend this year’s Black­pool con­ven­tion. I love the Win­ter­garden’s, the magi­cians and I love the Ruskins.

I love meet­ing pals, strolling through the deal­er’s hall, watch­ing lec­tures and all this. And the pints, of course …

BUT — what really fright­ens (and detains) me is the vast amount of card magic I would be facing there. Non­stop, at all times and every­where. Moves, flour­ishes, ideas, unfin­ished routines, con­cepts, attempts …

In the past years, doing card tricks every­where around the con­ven­tion has appar­ently become state-of-the-art. There­fore: The ‘Card­pool Convention’.

Not that I don’t like card tricks per se (I do even do some), but then at such a big con­ven­tion I would abso­lutely love from time to time to see some­thing else demon­strated to me besides the cards …

So, if someone were to prom­ise to show me a couple of non-card items, then I would recon­sider going to the ‘Card­pool Con­ven­tion’ this year. I might even take my box with me and return the favour with a couple of reels. Prob­ably I would­n’t Carey (pun!) a deck with me … 🙂