Originally Posted by kowalski

I know how some stuff is done. When I was younger I could do a few bits, totally out of practice now.

Quite hard to explain sleight of hand in a text only format. If you want some sick mentalism stuff, check out Banachek's PSI series. This guy is goes around demonstrating he can do anything a 'psychic' cold-reader can do.
Someone should stick a copy in the downloads bit.

Peace