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The Five Card Opener by Bill Abbott"The opening of any act is a tough choice for most performers. How do you get their attention, how do you hold their attention, how do you amaze and entertain them all at the same time? The 5 Card Opener is my answer all these questions and a whole lot more." Bill Abbott What is the Five Card Opener? The Five Card Opener re invents the classic five six card repeat with a completely fresh approach, featuring three sequences that build with a definitive
"The opening of any act is a tough choice for most performers. How do you get their attention, how do you hold their attention, how do you amaze and entertain them all at the same time? The 5 Card Opener is my answer all these questions and a whole lot more." - Bill Abbott
What is the Five Card Opener?
The Five Card Opener re-invents the classic five/six card repeat with a completely fresh approach, featuring three sequences that build with a definitive climax that is a big surprise.
What is the Five Card Opener?
The Five Card Opener re-invents the classic five/six card repeat with a completely fresh approach, featuring three sequences that build with a definitive climax that is a big surprise.
It has been Bill's opener for many years and it's in all of his shows: corporate shows, family shows, college shows, etc.
The Five Card Opener is a whole new way to make your show fun! AND it can play for audiences from 10-10,000.
The "Real" Secret
The BEST part about the 5 Card Opener is that you will have the audience screaming, yelling and at the edge of their seats in the first 2 minutes of your show. Guaranteed!
The "Real" Secret
The BEST part about the 5 Card Opener is that you will have the audience screaming, yelling and at the edge of their seats in the first 2 minutes of your show. Guaranteed!
And the 5 Card Opener isn't just an opener - it's an audience conditioner. It trains your crowd to react, making applause feel natural, easy, and fun.
It's also a built-in call back. A verbal trigger that gets a response every time you use it, shaping the energy of your entire show. And it's fully customizable - have them shout a corporate slogan, school cheer, company name, even a birthday shutout.
Simple to do & Gets GREAT reactions
Performing this off the top of your show will guarantee you will not have any mediocre reactions to any of your tricks - because you're giving them an outlet to respond in a BIG way. And they will. Even the most jaded ones.
Bill has had corporate audiences (almost asleep after a cocktail hour, two-hour dinner and then awards and speeches before his show) up and cheering in the first three minutes of his show using The Five Card Opener.
For the working performer you can literally 'drop' this into your show the next day. It plays BIG and VISUAL but packs small and flat in your prop case. And the best part is that it's so easy to do.
No angle restrictions, no special staging, packs smart, resets in 30 seconds anddelivers a BIG impact. Work away from tables and out of your pockets, making aninstant connection with your audience. Just pure, practical, magic.
ALL-NEW Michael Ross' 5 Card Closer
Revealed for the first time, Michael Ross' 5 Card Closer, a genius twist that turns thispowerful opener into an even stronger show-stopping finale to your show.
With Michael's secret spin, your audience could be on their feet in a roaring standingovation! This isn't just an opener-it could also be your ultimate closer.
Not Just a Trick
The 5 Card Opener isn't just a trick-it's a game-changer. It grabs attention, buildsenergy, and conditions your audience to react from the very first moment. Don't leaveyour show's success to chance-get the 5 Card Opener and start every performancewith unstoppable momentum!
Pro Package Includes:
Handmade gimmicked Bicycle Jumbo Playing Cards: These play big for a theatreyet are deceptive enough for an up-close house party.
Portable Pop-Up Hamper: For seamless card drops and a clean stage.
Water-Proof Zip Up Bag: To keep all the props safe, dry between shows and whiletraveling.
Full Performance Script in PDF form exactly as Bill performs this at every show.(Remember the script is a template to add to, subtract from and get creative with.)
In-Depth Video Tutorial Featuring: 2 LIVE performances of the Five Card Opener. Oneat the Magic Hideaway and the second in a banquet hall for 300 audiencemembers. Detailed routine handling using the jumbo-sized cards and a secondshowcasing the script and the handling in unison. Several portable container ideas touse with the routine. The "REAL" secret of the Five Card Opener with decades ofinsider secrets and all the psychological subtleties to make this routine play as stronglyfor you as it has for Bill for many years.
Here is what performers are saying about the 5 Card Opener...
"If you use Bill's script it is a VERY solid opening effect. It delivers what he promises.The reactions are EXACTLY as Bill tells you they will be. My audience was screamingand cheering- for my OPENER. Beautiful! Performers looking for a good openingroutine will NOT be disappointed with this."
-Jason Wethington
"Bill, you are a genius. I followed your routine and everyone at the end was yelling,"that's amazing!" I knew this was great but never thought it would be THAT GREAT.Thanks!!!!! Worth every penny and I must say this will be in every show I do. ThanksBill!"
-Mike Storz
"All I can say is brilliant! A professional routine that's going in both my adult stand up &family show. Great routine with loads of potential for specific tailoring, includingcorporate presentations. I believe this is vastly underpriced. Thanks, Bill, for sharingthis real worker!"
-Andy Kean
"This is a true professional piece that you will want to have as your opener as soon asyou get it and watch Bills well done and detailed instructional video. And the best partis this effect is SO SIMPLE! Truly if you can count up to 9 you will have no problemsperforming this."
-Floyd Collins
"The routine is as close to self-working as one can be (can you count cards from onehand to another? That's it!). The focus is on the presentation and personality. It truly isan opener. Finally, a five-card-repeat trick that works! You get your money's worthhere."
-Harry Murphy
"I wish you could have seen the crowd at the end of my show this evening. It takes atrick that I always thought was ho-hum and turns it into something that really gets thecrowd unified! Thanks for making this available. It is "AMAZING."
-Tim Hannig
"Simply brilliant and not priced high enough!!! I perform weekly in a 1,700-seat theateron a cruise ship. I have the audience chanting my name over and over by the end ofThe Opener. What a great feeling to have a group of that size screaming your name inunison..."
- Malcom "Puck" Puckering
"The Five Card Opener sets the tone of the entire show and "trains" the audience, andvirtually assures you of positive responses throughout your entire act. Therein lies theinestimable value of the Five Card Opener."
-Scott F. Guinn
"I watched your outstanding instructional video late last night. Worked on my ownscript out loud for about an hour this morning. And I kicked off the general session in front of about 1000 people with the routine. IT KILLED! The 5-card opener got the audience laughing, applauding, reacting. Thanks a million, Bill!"
-Adam Christing
"Bill's Five Card Opener routine and thoughtful explanations on the instructional video are PRICELESS! I've got (probably) $75,000+ in props in my garage, and I'll tell you this the one routine I won't ever leave home without. This is staple in every show I do for young, old and everyone in between!"
-Al Jensen
It's also a built-in call back. A verbal trigger that gets a response every time you use it, shaping the energy of your entire show. And it's fully customizable - have them shout a corporate slogan, school cheer, company name, even a birthday shutout.
Simple to do & Gets GREAT reactions
Performing this off the top of your show will guarantee you will not have any mediocre reactions to any of your tricks - because you're giving them an outlet to respond in a BIG way. And they will. Even the most jaded ones.
Bill has had corporate audiences (almost asleep after a cocktail hour, two-hour dinner and then awards and speeches before his show) up and cheering in the first three minutes of his show using The Five Card Opener.
For the working performer you can literally 'drop' this into your show the next day. It plays BIG and VISUAL but packs small and flat in your prop case. And the best part is that it's so easy to do.
No angle restrictions, no special staging, packs smart, resets in 30 seconds anddelivers a BIG impact. Work away from tables and out of your pockets, making aninstant connection with your audience. Just pure, practical, magic.
ALL-NEW Michael Ross' 5 Card Closer
Revealed for the first time, Michael Ross' 5 Card Closer, a genius twist that turns thispowerful opener into an even stronger show-stopping finale to your show.
With Michael's secret spin, your audience could be on their feet in a roaring standingovation! This isn't just an opener-it could also be your ultimate closer.
Not Just a Trick
The 5 Card Opener isn't just a trick-it's a game-changer. It grabs attention, buildsenergy, and conditions your audience to react from the very first moment. Don't leaveyour show's success to chance-get the 5 Card Opener and start every performancewith unstoppable momentum!
Pro Package Includes:
Handmade gimmicked Bicycle Jumbo Playing Cards: These play big for a theatreyet are deceptive enough for an up-close house party.
Portable Pop-Up Hamper: For seamless card drops and a clean stage.
Water-Proof Zip Up Bag: To keep all the props safe, dry between shows and whiletraveling.
Full Performance Script in PDF form exactly as Bill performs this at every show.(Remember the script is a template to add to, subtract from and get creative with.)
In-Depth Video Tutorial Featuring: 2 LIVE performances of the Five Card Opener. Oneat the Magic Hideaway and the second in a banquet hall for 300 audiencemembers. Detailed routine handling using the jumbo-sized cards and a secondshowcasing the script and the handling in unison. Several portable container ideas touse with the routine. The "REAL" secret of the Five Card Opener with decades ofinsider secrets and all the psychological subtleties to make this routine play as stronglyfor you as it has for Bill for many years.
Here is what performers are saying about the 5 Card Opener...
"If you use Bill's script it is a VERY solid opening effect. It delivers what he promises.The reactions are EXACTLY as Bill tells you they will be. My audience was screamingand cheering- for my OPENER. Beautiful! Performers looking for a good openingroutine will NOT be disappointed with this."
-Jason Wethington
"Bill, you are a genius. I followed your routine and everyone at the end was yelling,"that's amazing!" I knew this was great but never thought it would be THAT GREAT.Thanks!!!!! Worth every penny and I must say this will be in every show I do. ThanksBill!"
-Mike Storz
"All I can say is brilliant! A professional routine that's going in both my adult stand up &family show. Great routine with loads of potential for specific tailoring, includingcorporate presentations. I believe this is vastly underpriced. Thanks, Bill, for sharingthis real worker!"
-Andy Kean
"This is a true professional piece that you will want to have as your opener as soon asyou get it and watch Bills well done and detailed instructional video. And the best partis this effect is SO SIMPLE! Truly if you can count up to 9 you will have no problemsperforming this."
-Floyd Collins
"The routine is as close to self-working as one can be (can you count cards from onehand to another? That's it!). The focus is on the presentation and personality. It truly isan opener. Finally, a five-card-repeat trick that works! You get your money's worthhere."
-Harry Murphy
"I wish you could have seen the crowd at the end of my show this evening. It takes atrick that I always thought was ho-hum and turns it into something that really gets thecrowd unified! Thanks for making this available. It is "AMAZING."
-Tim Hannig
"Simply brilliant and not priced high enough!!! I perform weekly in a 1,700-seat theateron a cruise ship. I have the audience chanting my name over and over by the end ofThe Opener. What a great feeling to have a group of that size screaming your name inunison..."
- Malcom "Puck" Puckering
"The Five Card Opener sets the tone of the entire show and "trains" the audience, andvirtually assures you of positive responses throughout your entire act. Therein lies theinestimable value of the Five Card Opener."
-Scott F. Guinn
"I watched your outstanding instructional video late last night. Worked on my ownscript out loud for about an hour this morning. And I kicked off the general session in front of about 1000 people with the routine. IT KILLED! The 5-card opener got the audience laughing, applauding, reacting. Thanks a million, Bill!"
-Adam Christing
"Bill's Five Card Opener routine and thoughtful explanations on the instructional video are PRICELESS! I've got (probably) $75,000+ in props in my garage, and I'll tell you this the one routine I won't ever leave home without. This is staple in every show I do for young, old and everyone in between!"
-Al Jensen
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★★★★★ 3
Sadly, DNF
Format: Kindle
I read this thru KU. I LOVED the synopsis. And then I began reading... and it was a DNF at 68% after picking it up and putting it down several times because I really loved the main female character.
*****SPOILERS*****
Pros:
The world is unique, intriguing and fun. The primary female character is bad-a** but not a b*tech or a mary sue. The primary female has depth. I really want to know what happens to her even tho it's been weeks and I don't remember her name. The villains to the point I read are pretty good -- an ever present threat of mysterious and possibly many culprits.
Cons:
Way, way too many points of view. I stopped counting at 7. It's the prime reason why I don't care about most of the characters or remember their names even when I like them. There's just too many points of view so almost none of the characters have enough book space for the author to properly develop them. This literally killed the book for me. Actually it killed my desire to read. For weeks.
The main male is more villain than hero. He agreed to marry the main female then locks her up & eschews her for her sister, all while bad mouthing her as unfit to rule when he never spent any time with her getting to know her. He is actually unfit to rule as he is blind to the woes of his own kingdom and starts off a peace mission to secure a ceasefire through marriage by murdering an inn full of people in her country for no real reason. Plus, he constantly makes promises he does not keep. And it's gross of him to pine for the sister behind the main female's back.
*****
As much as I really wanted to see what happened to the main female character, it wasn't enough for me to keep trying to slog thru this book. There was a lot of potential here that just fell short.
Hence, 3 stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Fae Courts with High Intrigue
Format: Kindle
This book is one that just builds and builds and then surprises you to no end. You may think you know the villains and then you are jolted in another direction. Princess Reyna is a real gem, strong of character, a fierce fighter, and loyal to her family and kingdom. Just when you think she and Lorcan, well you know, the plot is flipped. Can't wait to see where this goes in book two.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2023
★★★★★ 4
Slow, sorry but good
Format: Kindle
This was a slow moving book. Lots of character pov chapters, lots of superfluous descriptions and endless courtly appearances stalled this book to start. Once you get into the heart of the story, it takes off. Before you know it the book is done. My favorite character is Reyna. She is so strong. She is true to herself. She gets into a lot of trouble with her headstrong ways but it's entertaining. I have high hopes for Lorcan. He is honorable to a fault. Thane had turned out to be better than I thought but i still don't like him. Eislin is useless. Great plot twists at the end. I'm looking forward too book 2.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020
★★★★★ 5
Very detailed! Beautiful world building! Strong Heroine!
Format: Kindle
Starts off a little slow and confusing with different POV’s, but starts to all come together towards the middle to make an elaborate plot line and makes it all worth it. Beautiful world building and attention to detail as well as great writing. The cliffhanger was gut wrenching! Can’t wait for the next book!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2020
★★★★★ 4
Interesting
Format: Kindle
This was a very captivating book once you got into it thoroughly. But the third person perspective was a bit hard to get used to. But as you got into it and followed the different characters, it was interesting and filled with intrigue, conflict and forbidden love.
I can’t wait to read the next one and to complete the series.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2022