This Friday, Sammy Cortino makes magic history as he sets the world record for manipulating the most playing cards blindfolded with both hands in 90 seconds: 300. He will submit the record to Guinness for verification. Following the event, the 21 year old illusionist may make a big announcement. The event will be streamed starting at 1:30PM EST out of Hickory, North Carolina. Stunt starts at 2:00PM EST this Friday on August 6. HD video edit uploaded to YouTube within 24 hours of stunt.

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You can make comments live on Sammy’s Facebook page as the stream is embedded on it.

Sammy’s USTREAM channel (where the stream originates) is here.

Official Facebook event here.

Below is an embedded window of the stream:
Webcam chat at Ustream

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