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Post your One-Hand Popover performance as a video response to Aaron’s video on youtube and enter to win a super rare, hardcover, signed, 1st edition “Paper Engine”. One of the most serious and technical books on modern card magic.

If you are only casually interested in sleight of hand with cards, then The Paper Engine is not for you. Because anyone who told you that real sleight of hand doesn’t take hard work is just trying to sell you something. Magic does take hard work. But that’s not all. All the practice and dedication in the world won’t make you a true card handler without the correct information. I’m talking about real secrets.

-Aaron Fisher

But wait, there is more. 5 random contest participants will receive a personal coaching lesson on card magic with Aaron Fisher through skype. Ain’t that cool?

Christmas is around the corner and the remaining 32 winners have yet to be announced.
Most of the good gifts are still in the sack so if you are not one of the 300+ people that commented here or one of the 100+ ones who retweeted this message you are missing out on a huge opportunity to get your hands on some kickass “magic, cardistry, poker and hypnosis products”.

Follow us on twitter and RT this message to double up your chances:

“@BestMagicDeals RT to Win over $1200 worth of magic, cardistry, poker and hypnosis products. More info at http://bit.ly/santacuso”

If you want to know more about the rules and prizes of the competition go to the official post: Christmas Giveaway at .thecuso

You’ve been warned. This kind of things happen only once a year.

Merry Xmas!

-Santa Cuso

Here are the top 20 winners:

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1-Shoeman
2-Nebelfuchs
3-Dimitri
4-Rune Hou Thode
5-Ryoma
6-Garret
7-jtmorris
8-Tarvi
9-Riddick
10-StephenCooley
11-Luiz
12-Pelle Kravik
13-Nicolas
14-41KO
15-Cesar Mosqueda
16-maxvelio
17-Cody Lust
18-Frank
19-Cyber
20-Trevkor

Congratulations guys!

Click here to check out the full list of prizes in random order.

The second list will be published the 25th of December, you still have time to enter!

Winners will be contacted via the email provided.

Yesterday was insane, servers collapsing, hundreds of people refreshing the page and getting random errors…

I couldn’t even enter my website’s admin panel! It was really a challenge and it ended up being even more fun than I expected.

For those of you that managed to enter and post within the first seconds, Congratulations. If you are in the top 20 comments you have secured one of the gifts from the list.

If you couldn’t make it that fast don’t worry. You still have the chance to win one of the 32 other gifts. No matter if you are #21 or #189 you can still win so don’t give up hope and go comment now if you haven’t already.

Here is the official post where you have to leave the comment: Christmas Giveaway – Official Post

What prize did I win?

Ok now comes the fun part, I’m going to make a list of all the 52 gifts and put them into Random.org/lists so they come out in, you guessed it, random order.

That is going to be the PRIZES LIST.

The first 20 items of the list will go to the first 20 commenters in that order.

For the COMPETITORS LIST we will have to wait for the contest to finish. To quote myself “The rest of the gifts will be assigned at random from all the comments received before the 25th of December”.

So this second list will consist of all of you guys from comment #21 to the last one by December 25 and the ones that retweeted the “santacuso message”. I will randomize the order of the COMPETITORS LIST as soon as I close the comments again.

There are 32 gifts for the late commenters, and you don’t know where the good prizes will be…

What do I do now?

Now you wait and enjoy the Holidays, practice your magic, do the christmas shopping and perform some awesomeness.

You can also make a youtube video with your impressions on the contest, swearing and cussing about the server downtime, celebrating your sneaky internet skills that bypassed the Error 503 obstacles or just wish everybody merry christmas, happy holidays or whatever it is you celebrate there. No need to cosplay to say thanks hehe, I know, I’m also a mind reader so I can’t help it…

Another thing you can do is subscribe to Best Magic Deals’ feed to get updated on the upcoming contests and get notified if you happen to win one of the prizes. If you use twitter like most of us already do (we are addicts, I can openly say it) there is also a twitter account that tweets out a message whenever a post is published here in the blog. Go follow @BestMagicDeals right now.

You can also browse around the previous posts or submit your own review, guide or interesting findings, maybe an eBay auction, a magic contest or a special coupon code.
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Expect the first list today,

-Alejandro Portela
.thecuso

Copy your Christmas greetings to the clipboard and get ready for the big launch. The countdown is ticking away…

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When the countdown clock hits zero I will proceed to open the comments at the official Christmas Giveaway Post. Follow @thecuso and @bestmagicdeals on twitter just in case. You’ve been warned.

Ho ho ho!

-Alejandro “Santa Cuso” Portela

Here is a little trick you can do to double your chances of winning one of the gifts from the list.

With your twitter account follow @BestMagicDeals and retweet the following message:

“@BestMagicDeals RT to Win over $1200 worth of magic, cardistry, poker and hypnosis products. More info at http://bit.ly/santacuso”

Your name will be thrown twice into the magic hat.

Don’t know what this whole thing is all about? Check the full post here: Christmas Giveaway at .thecuso

Good luck!

“Happy Holidays guys,

Christmas is here and it comes with a nice red sack filled with shiny gifts for you, my loyal and adorable readers.

I’ve been talking to a few friends and companies about sponsoring a unique giveaway with magic products, playing cards and collectors’ items… because I know everyone loves free stuff, am I right?

What first started as a small contest for Black Friday has turned into one of the richest giveaways with contributions from the main companies in the business and big names from card flourishing, magic, hypnosis and mentalism.

You are the ones that make .thecuso and I want to thank you for being there everyday, sharing your videos and ideas and helping others with your tutorials and constructive comments.

Christmas is a good time to give back and reward you for being part of this growing family.

“There are 52 Christmas packets for 52 different winners with an estimate total value of over $1200 in magic gifts.”

Before I explain the rules of the game let’s take a look at the good stuff.

THE PRIZES

1 Pack of Signed 1st Edition Smoke and Mirrors by Dan and Dave‘s (one of each).
2x Downloads of your choice from Vanishinginc Magic Store.
2x Decks of Bicycle 125th Aniversary from Aceking
3x Packs of 1 Black and 1 White Arcane Playing Cards.
3x Karnival Assassin decks from trickshopmagic
2x “One-Hand Popover” DVDs from Aaron Fisher
1x “GENESIS” Download from Andrei Jikh
1x “Surfaced” DVD from Chad Nelson
2x Signed Copies of 1st ed. “Inside” from Daniel Madison.
6x Uncut sheets of Bicycle Raiders From MagicNetwork
2x “My night with a stripper” DVDS by Chris “Orbit” Brown
1x “Stain/Shiv” DVD by Andrew Mayne
1x Copy of Hong Wong’s hypnosis DVD “ZAP” from Jay Noblezada
1x Full “Reality is Plastic” Hypnosis Book and DVD set from Anthony Jacquin
1x “Manchurian Approach” Hypnosis DVD set from Anthony Jacquin and Alakazam
1x $200 worth annual subscription to MagicMez
2x Packs of 3 Red/Blue Bicycle Vintage Racer Backs from Eyellusionist
2x Packs of 3 Red/Blue Tally Ho Fan Backs from Eyellusionist
2x Packs of 3 1st edition Bicycle Raiders From MagicNetwork
6x PDF downloads of your choice from Dee Christopher
1x $25 gift certificate to spend on Dan and Dave‘s On Demands
1x “Thunderbird” PDF from Lee Asher
3x 1-on-1 Training Videos (of your choosing) from Theory 11
5 “Devious” PDF from Geraint Clarke

Want to know more?

Check the full post here: Christmas Giveaway at .thecuso

Santa Cuso is watching you…

Good luck,

-Alejandro Portela”

Here is some insider information on the sponsors for “.thecuso‘s Christmas Giveaway”. We can’t reveal what are they contributing to the Santa Cuso’s Red Sack but you can have an idea from the list.

There are magic dvds , playing cards, dvds, pdf, downloads, books, special editions and collectors items, hypnosis stuff…

And the list is not complete yet! (hence the delay on the launch) Check it out:

Partial List of Sponsors

Dan and Dave
Theory 11
Vanishinginc Magic
Aceking Playing Cards
Ellusionist
trickshopmagic
Aaron Fisher
Lee Asher
Dee Christopher
Daniel Madison
Chad Nelson
Chris Brown
Andrew Mayne
Jay Noblezada
Anthony Jacquin
Eyellusionist
MagicNetwork
Geraint Clarke
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Are you starting to salivate? We are already dry.

Spread the word and we’ll throw in more prizes

Tell your friends about this, it’s going to be super easy to enter, full details will be revealed here before everywhere else.

Post this on the forums, facebook, myspace and twitter an we will buy Santa Cuso another Red Sack and an Upgraded Sled with NO2 and spinning rims.

Want to be the first to know?

Follow Best Magic Deals on Twitter and of course .thecuso on facebook and Twitter.

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If you don’t see yourself on the list and want to contribute with some products send us an email and we will convince Alejandro.