Since that day, Kepplinger’s holdout has evolvedinto a simple, elegant design with two variations: the knee-spread and thetoe-spread. The knee-spread works by cutting small gaps in th… 展开

Years ago, a good friend called me from Spainafter buying a toe-spread holdout for his magic show. It’s not a great solution for magicians sinceit’s designed for a single purpose and is … 展开

As my magician friend soon learned, the sleightof hand required to accompany the machine is both extremely difficult andparticular to the actions of normal card play. In other wo… 展开

The only reason there are just a handful ofmachine players out there is that the work is incredibly difficult to do welland the holdout device requires constant maintenance, s… 展开