2017 MIT Presents Richard Turner

well howdy howdy well i'm richard chugga I represent why you should never play cards with strangers I'm not a magician but what I do can appear very magic unless known as a card mechanic slang term card shark I demonstrate how many ways you can be taken at the car tip well when you play poker blackjack bridge hold on whatever your game you want to make sure the cards are evenly mixed and poker annie and i are going to show you how it's done okay there's a deck for you and a desk for me so just do as I do the biggest follow the best you can just give the deck a few up the river cuts you have it alternated up the river cut give it a flying three-way perfect now casino procedures was called riffle riffle strip ripple cut so first of all you break them you give them a riffle you give them another riffle and you're given what's called a strip cut or a box cutter running cutters reverses the top and bottom another riffle and a that is basic casino procedure you have a little trouble there oh it's your right hand is screwing you up I can fix that for you put them in your left hand take them break them to whether even like this lace them up and give them a one-handed bridge now I have shown you a half a dozen ways of shuffling and cutting the deck they should be pretty evenly mixed just poke at at any would you hold your cards off the table in your hands let's see if this deck is pretty evenly mixed do we have a stoop King ace through King Ace to King King to ace I shuffle the back end up back in the perfect numerical order I'd like that random stuff would you do me a favor Trish give that deck a shuffle cut and just set them right there when you're done the ladies are gonna do an all doing all the shuffling cutting and when if there's box cards and they're just let's go in picture okay well burn a card and you will choose the situation each time poker ante how many players we open the table with oh three players for players pick a number four players one two three four Munda house one two three no I spoke French three four and what's that card poker Annie that's an ace what's your total here Adam under 16 years hitter state yeah what's that card too many what do you have here quickly seven here what's that twelve what you gonna do oh it's sorry it's a five so it's 12 oh it's still close is it seven five is twelve matter which way you add it together and I didn't have to go to MIT to know that what do you have you won't play twenty-two that's played next door what's that oh that's a callow SS 1313 you want another one please take okay man you sure burned a lot of aces for us yeah what do you have here hitter state what's that it's eighteen sixteen eighty nine would you say you had sixteen glbt what's that yeah what's that okay now say I was that the two aces what's that twenty-one sorry the hard way mind you I know he go through whole deck for the time sake make sure they're all facedown shuffle them here's your box card and then set them up there out of my way you shuffle this deck yes yes this time I'm going to attempt to do what's called cull a slug now the poker players out there you should probably know what this means or maybe a third of it I'm going to do what she's doing there that's good Annie just something right there and I'm going to try to call a slug I can push to my partner I use casino procedure on is very slowly for you riffle riffle and you're supposed to us a strip which is reversing the tops and bottom halves on the deck I'll do a bunch of ripple strips for you another riffle and a cut that's basic casino procedure as I said and do you know what a cut or burnt part is that's in for blackjack or Hold'em you do everyone else there does with output they'll put a card face up on the bottom or they'll burn a burner card printed card face up or put out hello we're dealing and to hold them after the fact you're going to tell me how many people step up to my toes hold them table Hold'em Z game with large numbers six seven eight players how many players should we have trishaw six six one two three four five six one two three four five six burn and we have what's called the flow and what is that card Annie burn turn what's that card Annie burn turn what's that card Annie and let's get rid of our burnt card off the bottom and these rollers are stretching you're my secret partner sitting over here in hand number five what do you have in the pocket with that you killed a Manny you killed and Flores and give that deck a quick shuffle set them right there well most of you know because they showed you a video and probably told you up front that I see with my mind in my fingers yes well let me just give you a little background my vision started going south when I was nine during my teens and 20s my vision was measured it what's called 20 over 400 which is twice as low as what's considered legally blind then it all disappeared and I have to admit growing up with vision no better than the cartoon character mr. Magoo can be very entertaining at times like watching this I stopped trees card or solid brick buildings with my bare head block of my head left my hands valuable not too valuable my beautiful wife and she's so immune to be running into things I dashed to answer the phone I ran square into the corner of a wall split my head wide open I'm gushing blood she looked up from a book and said now that one had to go hurt when you get off the phone don't forget to wipe up the blood I was I was on the driving range with my dentist he went to talk to somebody I didn't realize these time I put a ball down I made a slight adjustment to the left as they're driving the balls at 12 o'clock I was driving them at 9 o'clock right towards the Pro Shop and the golf pro is out there on a speaker going hey you and the blue shirt and of course I couldn't tell us wear a blue shirt he's still what the hell are you driving those balls over here for you crazy man I wonder who that jerk was in the blue shirt that BAM drove another through in slower right towards his face when my son Ace of Spades is about seven years old we were at a restaurant and he had to use the restroom so we both sided up to a pair of urinals and I'm BMI normal goofy self and I'm looking over and down to him going oh I love to pee and get the pee out of me when all of a sudden I feel a little tap on my back a voice from behind go um dad I finished that's another man you singing to and then when we got home and told my wife she had to bring up the fact that he was little I was looking over and down right at the guys yeah embarrassed I got up one morning to brush my teeth ice courted toothpaste on my brush and started brushing it tasted really bad I went to my wife I said what kind of toothpaste is this it tastes awful she laughed she said that's not toothpaste that's spermicide it's where birth control you keep using that we'll never have kids [Music] the most memorable moment came when I was 19 I came up with a Bray MIT idea for the blind and deaf driver I bought a motorcycle I would drive my deaf friend Roy would tell me where to go right left red light green light it worked really well until one day we were pulled over for suspected armed robbery we fit the profile to a tee except for two minor details the getaway driver wasn't blind his accomplice wasn't deaf once we proved to the cop that we couldn't see the lights flashing or hear the siren blasting I received a ticket for driving while blind and he let us drive on the story now you know what a goofball you're listening to this is what I've learned about life you know we're all different hands of life with those tens we make choices a choice of mediocrity or painting a portrait of success over the next few minutes you're going to become familiar with the acronym delt de alts and delta hand at cards d stands for dreams our dreams fuel the fire in our belly he stands for excellence what opens doors has become an expert achieving a state of excellence a stands for analysis Socrates famously said an unexamined life is not worth living L stands for loyalty we must be loyal to our company colleagues customers virtue such as honesty integrity and P stands for tenacity tenacity breaks down the barriers of stand between us and our dream now my dream was to be a card shark many times I've been asked growing up did you actually want to be a card chair weren't you normal like the rest of us and want to be something respectable like a doctor lawyer hamburger flipper or for house the most feared of all MIT professor this is Professor I didn't want to be any of those things growing up my dream was to kick like Chuck Norris I want strength like Charlton Heston demonstrate in the old movie Ben Hur but my most daunting aspiration was to be a card shark like James Garner's character from the TV series maverick it does strike me as odd the impact that TV and movies had on my life Chuck Norris Kelton husband James Garner as my wife says is a good thing I never saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre what start with letter D dreams Henry David Thoreau once said if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours here few questions to consider towards reaching your dream and painting your own personal portrait of success you know what makes a world champion what separates good from great why do some people become world-class while others despite their best efforts of mediocrity you know people that rise to the level of mediocrity often end up there because they have no dream in their minds they have no portion of success they have not developed the framework within which to fully examine their potential there's no fire in their belly no dream and if you don't just don't let the littlest thing shut them down like doubt you know we don't become world-class for full of self-doubt rather if we have a portrait of success firmly embedded in our brain whatever we set our mind to despite the naysayers and when you go through life in here they're everywhere we still achieve our dreams and of course tonight I know I'm speaking to the choir because you are MIT students and I only three things to say to you congratulations what you've done for what you're doing and what you're going to do now as I said I'm kind of an oddball without duck I wanted to be a card mechanic and let me explain something general probably don't they realize there's a distinction there's a big difference we did a card mechanic and a card magician a card mechanic is someone who could control the outcome of a card game and the techniques for the card table are literally a thousand times more difficult to develop and the techniques used to perform card magic and I've been very fortunate that I've had the privilege of working with some of the most respected people in areas I was interested when I in 1975 I had the privilege of starting to train with a man named professor Dai Vernon he was born in 1894 he lived via over 98 years old and for over half a century he was considered the best in the world with a deck of cards he was also known as the man who fooled Houdini that took place back in 1919 almost a century ago and I had the privilege of working with Professor Vernon for 17 years and during those years professor would describe to me very intricate card concepts a card moves and the thing is he didn't describe them to me in the way that he could do them or the way that others could do them but because I couldn't see what he was showing me he tricked me he described them to me in the way he wished they could be done and only after I spent thousands of hours and mastered the moves and concepts that he finally admit to me he made them up he thought they were impossible he just want to see what I'd come up with I'm going to show you a few things that Professor said was not possible khoka Randy you shuffled the card yes we're going to deal my favorite game which is the predecessor to hold them seven card stud who here player has played seven sets a yes oh boy a bunch of players out there what's your name over here who said yes gentlemen Jason how many players should we have Jason four five six pick a number you're my partner you want to set it one two three four or five five and four one two three Jason and five now watch this Annie I want you to take the rest of the deck and mix it up and then pull out a stack of cards and hand them to me don't give me the whole deck we're going to make this as impossible as possible she's going to true everything she can to screw things up but it makes me put a stack of cards in my hand oh she is stingy - okay we are player 1 2 3 and we have player Jason player 5 take those backs mix them all together have me any part of that deck you like and I'll keep my messes in order here while you do that hand me a random stack of cards thank you you added six five cards more than last time one two three and Jason chose number four what's that card Annie well that's a decent card take them mix them up hand me any part of the deck you like shuffle them together and just hand me a random stack of cards oh she got stingy again now we have player five player one player two player three player Jason what's that card Annie well that's a good card that goes so they met they go together mix them up mix them up have me any part of the deck two more cards in last times there are five player one player two player three what's that card oh that's looking good Jason looking good but any is doing for you they don't call our poker Annie for nothing do you know her sister her sister's name is poker Alice oh my gosh I'm not gonna make it around the table of outfield cards it was really trying to see how far she could take it over I player one player two player three player Jason with that pair of hands this would be the last card mix them up and poker Alice used to smoke long blasts cigars she drank her whiskey straight she's one of the top cheaters in the country during the 19th century but she always read her Bible on Sunday thank you this Andy and player 5 now we have what's called down and dirty y'all wonder where that Express he came it came from a game from this game put that with the rest of the stack man any thank you so let's reiterate once again Annie shuffled cut Jason chose five players fourth position seven card stud were playing hi Shekhar bro that means high Spade in the hole splits the pot he chose hand him before she shuffled every time to see what Jason haves again Annie what's that ten what's that Queen what's that ace what's that pair of tens what's that ASA wet ASA clubs what's that well you're sitting on a belly Buster inside straight you got a king you got an a size paper playing high Spade in the hole with that full house aces over tens high Spade in the hole you kill them jason but they so you guys you're the smart ones your job is to think about how can he could take a deck and have them constantly randomized every time and then still control the outcome under those conditions it makes you think twice doesn't it have you the rest of the cards you're going to pick some in just a second now you're gonna fix them she didn't say she's good to get that free Seifer that's the good P for nothing all one direction I'm going to show you a few things I was not planning on showing you but said she said I can take a few minutes I'm going to show you my mess here name a card Annie take out all the juices set them right here all the twos all five of them sir sorry is it Shady well we'll work with whatever you find I keep the fifth one up my sleeve you you want to see it Pete you got four three or four twos oh you are so quick hand them to me face up thank you and we'll clean up this mess aroni here what is your favorite suit spade diamond club or heart pull the Spade take the Spade I'm will leave the other three deuces on the bottom everybody with me for that overhead camera four come back on okay oh did hand me the two of spades face up wash the two of spades you're going to understand what I do I want the two of spades so what happens is I would deal cards around the table to the other players only when I'm ready do I deal the deuce of spades watch face up watch face ups how the card sits there as the second card of dealt but you have to deal it as neatly as if you're dealing off the top say and they're not off the bottom Euler twos haven't moved in the first card that was dealt whichever one it was is not a to watch again I'll deal it in super slow motion super slow motion oh yeah you think une you're doing your job so well watch the deuce on top super slow motion see I will hit the other player's watch faced up misses fully exposed mind you they never give you this type of an angle or this slow sees the card sit there till I want the card it's one-handed when the deuce is facedown when is facedown so you can't tell you been swindled in that fun that's called Elim seconds thank you deaf forties that forties okay here's the interesting one this was stuff that I was not going to show you but I'm going to show you now four deuces let's say the gambler kept them on the top or bottom during the shuffle when the deck is cut anything on the top or bottom end up where gel and poker Alice but cranny middle she is so good that's right in the center 14 in the center I'm going to take a peek so for a century what was considered the ultimate was to deal from the middle because back in the old days we you had to let that someone cut the deck nowadays they don't do that anymore what separates the amateur cheetah from the professional will deal a hand of Hold'em Jason Jason give me number players four or five or six simply one two three four five six one two three four five six and then hold them as though we know we have the pocket cards we have a burn and we have the fly there's Annie what's that card a burn and turn missed Annie what's that card a burn and a terminus Andy what's that card and did you see the first one come out the dealer's hand what's that for tears to the dealer but the point is they were dealt from the middle now at the bottom or the second but from the center you follow one saying yeah would these dancer dreams he stands for excellence you know what opens doors has become an expert achieving a state of excellence my first director was a man named Steve Terrell he was a TV and movie star back in the early throughout the 50s and early 60s he formed a theater company called the Lambs players and I was with them from 1972 to 78 and during those years he taught me how to play the part of a sighted person I look people in the eye and give them the impression that I could see them he also said you loved cards it sit there behind scenes I would constantly practice these you love you love cards he said if you become the best card man in the world you were earn the respect of others and that will open doors for you professor for instance something said something very similar he said if you can do anything so it's done it doesn't matter what it is if you can do anything better than everyone else in the world people will try to break down your doors to me you don't have to worry about looking for money if you're world-class you don't have to chase after money money will find you it's a byproduct of success in becoming the best does Steve Jobs chase after money or did he chase after perfection and his products anyone knows anything about jobs he was obsessive he chased after perfection and money find jobs in Apple it is three and how does it happen two four-letter words four-letter words some people think our customers two words are hard work you know it takes ten years of hard work to become an overnight success yeah many Olympic athletes would argue that spending hours a day in the gym or running dozens of wind sprints on the track is not exactly fun still they love it but world-class performance requires world-class discipline and as I like to say discipline breeds discipline discipline breeds discipline the more you do something the better you can do it now there's another expression I don't agree with and that is practice makes perfect y'all heard that now practice not make perfect you can practice something wrong and when you're done it's perfect wrong perfectly perfect practice makes perfect Malcolm Gladwell talks about the rule of 10,000 hours some of you heard of Malcolm Gladwell he said to become a to have all kinds to become a true expert a real master you must devote at least 10,000 hours to your craft that breaks down to three hours a day seven days a week for ten years straight I started messing around with cards I hate to even say this 55 years ago now and I've made a living with cards for over 40 years but there was a period of time when I practiced and I'm serious 10 to 20 hours a day seven days a week for 26 years straight and then I started slacking a bit and I dropped the 10 to 3 to 10 hours a day I'm going to show you what obsessive compulsive behavior can do for you to pick at number 10 to 20 ante watch I'm going to try to cut with one hand 18 cards can you count them out loud on the table start reading here like this one on top of the other yeah little faster 12 13 14 15 16 17 we did it any we did it [Music] I'll do it again I'll make it more difficult any number one to 52 but you don't want to say 52 because I passed the deck nobody cares 10 to 40 square stuff somebody out there calling number 3 3 3 3 out loud one on top of the other 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 3 we did it again we should go on the road together let's try to have three and ten a three and nine one two three three times the amount one two three four five six seven eight nine isn't that fun we're going to until you go home and try that you don't realize how tough that is Andy would you do me a favor take half the deck cut it here and then put the other half on top when you're done cut and finish got it all right so I'll show you one of the purposes for being able to feel exact number of cards by thickness and that's the reverse of dealings from the middle when you're dealing from the middle half the battle is knowing where that card is in the middle right the other half is getting out without getting shot give me a number of players Danny three four or five pick a number four players you're my secret part you want to that one two three or four number two and once again the only way you're allowed to shuffle and the casinos you keep the deck face down on the table and any just did whatever she did to the cards you want four players second position and what were the cards that you selected earlier two's was it to Suzie oh okay take the deck I'm gonna let you do her deal so I'm not doing anything crooked if you look hard off the top right here faced out player one okay just so we see face-up number two what's that card you chose position number two okay player three player for player one page set number two what's that jeez deal and remember we're partners keep you on keep doing be beyond what's that start betting Andy Jason has money keep going she what's the next card four deuces I shuffle hop shuffle but did you follow I shuffled her cards back in the deck exactly where she chose and she dealt them to prove that it happened thanks handy tech the handy thing to be able to do these stance regimes East stands for excellent a stands for analysis you know we must analyze our obstacles we must analyze our assets and of course my first big obstacle to deal with with the loss of sight I was as I thought I was nine years old when a disease began ravaging the retina in my eyes and I began to go blind one day it was literally one day I could see the chalkboard next day I couldn't and to my dismay I've shipped out to a special school where they had what's called a v8 room VH stood for visually handicapped I hated the word handicapped and I despised the word blind and the sighted students were not very nice to us in the VH department one kid would flip the bird in front of my face and he go hey Magoo how many fingers am i holding up and while I was distracted his friend would sneak up behind me and pick the wallet out of my pocket he would then dangling in front of my face going hey Magoo got any money and when I grabbed for my water you thought over my head to his friend behind me in a cruel game of keep-away and the Tees turned ugly when they started slapping me across the cheekbone can you see you two grab your money blind boy the other kid jumped on my back drove me to the ground kicked me in the ribs and they ran off laughing with my money saying thanks for the money Magoo as I laid there weeping I vowed one day I'm going to learn karate and kicking your faces I did when I first started losing my sign I was really mad but the loss of vision turned out to be a blessing and one of my greatest assets let's talk about assets you know if we defeat adversity with honor integrity we can turn adversity into an asset mat can lead to prosperity adversity leads to prosperity I heard is a little blind boy Stevie Wonder could hear a mouse walk that is so cool he turned that fine sense of hearing into tremendous musical asset now how do we do that tools we must use all of our tools we also does so depend on what we see for our input that we tend to minimize the power of our other senses hear smell taste touch other four tools now after people see what I could do with the cards they often ask how is it possible to do that you probably asked them that same question and I understand the subtext of your question is how can someone take a shuffled deck and deal a winning hand anytime he wants and the guy can't see anything if we've lost something crucial does it mean it's over because we should say as a kid no way Jose essential theme of modern neuroscience is what is known as brain plasticity we've heard all heard how when a person loses one over one or more their primary senses with surviving senses compensate when we come in much sharper and neuroscience autonomous is partly rooted in a phenomenon as neural plasticity that is where neurons we're talking about dead neurons regenerate and reorganize themselves around one or more other surviving senses now when my vision started going south I was blessed in two ways one was with an enhanced sense of touch and the other was the ability to see without sight now that sounds weird see without sight I have a very rare visual condition first document in 1760 called child Benet syndrome CBS or what dr. Oliver Sacks calls seeing with the mind's eye and a lot of these topics will be thoroughly covered in that documentary that you saw out and they've been filming for four years and it kind of premieres next month as South by South bill South by Southwest Film Festival and it will eventually be everywhere so watch sport called delt Charles bonnet syndrome is a condition where a person who has lost their sight should see nothing black right still sees colors patterns shapes and there's no medical explanation for this phenomenon and I'm actually one of the most extreme cases of CBS on the planet and the only one known that can actually manipulate the colors and patterns images in the creating functional vision we try to kind of describe how I see see I see a 360-degree kaleidoscope of beautiful reds blues yellows greens every subconscious image you can imagine the thing is I don't see these images in the back of the brain like when you're dreaming or imagining things I look at them I see them in front of me see the mint in external space I see them in front of me just as clearly as you see everything that's in front of you and these reds blues yellows B greens are just as vivid if my eyes are open close if it's day or pitch black night now here's the cool thing I can organize these images into creating vision let's say I want to remember questions for a final or or memorize a theater script or just remember a phone number I can write the phone number down in the air and I will see it floating in the air just as clearly as you would see it on a computer screen chalkboard the mind's eye on take a picture of it because I what's called an eidetic memory I'll never forget it did you know that that density of nerve endings and the fingertips is higher than on the fingertips than any other part of the flesh of a gentleman we know there's one exception in this case and thanks to my slow people out there and it takes to my touch I had the privilege of entertaining though the rich famous and infamous from all over the world I've entertained legends like Johnny Carson Gene Kelly Gregory Peck Jimmy Stewart Bob Hope another view like Bob Odenkirk from Breaking Bad better call solo Brad Pitt Cheatham an oscar-nominated film I bet you half of you don't even know half those names right if I could be a legend since Italy that's your time before your time rather I also say that being kidnapped and hugged by the three-time boxing champion of the world Muhammad Ali if you ever heard of Muhammad Ali I say yes oh good wonderful man I was in a casino when four big african-american men snatched me they shoved me out the back of the casino stuff need a limo limo zipped away pulled up behind another casino they shoved me through a door into a big suite where Ollie Kings not enough to his arms around me at a big bear hug and goes richard how you doing it's so good to see you again oli heard how I could find randomly selected cars in under seemingly impossible circumstances you want me to show you how I'm finding cards people find it kind of fascinating Ms Trisha would you touch a card take it out got it got it and point just somebody out here Trisha say the name Nora Nora say stop pull up and pull out the card for us Nora just show it towards that right there for Nora and poker Annie would you point to somebody what's your name Lucy Lucy say stop it says that is that card okay yeah okay so lose your card put it face down right here and poke out any pull hard for yourself so we have a number of cards selected in whatever ways you selected Trish out would you say stop drop your card face down on the deck okay now your job is to follow your card here we go follow your car follow follow follow follow your card follow your heart follow follow follow your card follow follow fall now watch this shuffle watch the shovel let's see the camera can catch it from Oh from up front watch this do I do that slow motion sound cards you go every other card slow motion as that was it's so like a machine or something but I uh show a Dora show door everybody noise card again norris taste out drop the car course okay miss Nora follow your card follow follow follow the yellow-brick card and Lucy please put Lucy's cap card back for Shore card Gracie Lucy's card okay remember your card Lucy follow your card and some people think they're on the top or the bottom but you know that's kind of cheesy as Joel will tell you and who else has you have a card you right here put your card on top where's your card right now I can find it that fast which is do me a favor cut half the deck here and then put the other half on top when you finished so is your card on top now if it is you are fast alright so we give the deck once again a few riffles and we will start with Miss Annie cut the deck for me Annie and put the other half on top and did you cut your card is that your card yes or no that's not your card you need my help would you like me to cut your card to the top of the deck bottom of the deck or right out of the middle you call right over there watch careful she wants me to card a cut wants me to cut a card right from a sudden I do it in slow motion so you knows nothing trickery going on what was your card Annie what's that that's very close would you cut the deck for Lucy cut the deck and put the other half on top and Lucy is that your card top bottom and middle Lucy what do you like to and do you remember what the suit of your card is what was your card but the only difference is the shape that's a cleaner cleaning Club okay good cut the deck for Nora set the deck for Nora got it finish it nor did you get lucky yes or no here miss do something different Nora give what's your favorite number under 10 now your favorite number under 10 can you do me a favor take the deck countdown 1 2 3 4 5 6 that went over the 7th guard cutter card shuffle enough shuffle them up shuffle em up shuffle em up good stuff away it's all of us making sense to everybody okay all right but did you have a card oh I almost forget I just forgot that I forgot okay would you do me a let's see yeah I know I know what I'm gonna do here let me think about this twice okay would you pull out a card for me Annie grab one got it Oh righty let everybody see your card Annie Annie say stop yeah okay drop your card put it back okay ah let's see here I guess I as well give it a shuffle or two just for the heck of it and who should I start with I'll start with Miss Poker Annie Annie what is that card out loud Ace of Spades is the correct answer would you do me a favor put your fingers straight up and down like this straight up and out like that I think that's your card what's that card seven of diamonds tricia is that the card you chose the seven of diamonds would you huh would you take what you have which would you what was your card you don't member your card was what was her card is this pace up huh is this the card face up yes or no is it face up okay Joe oh oh yeah the difference is you can see it the other way you can yeah sometimes you have to explain things to the elders what was your card now I carry both help around Asus baby I think it was bassist babe yes yo and what was your card oh no what was the card you took out in the deck see the ace of spades three of Hearts okay you got shot okay what is this card here do you remember what this card was Hey and what's that one is that your [Applause] you did a good job of shuffling things up for a second I thought they screwed up well they'll face down okay since you guys since we're having fun will you do another one you do as I do okay cut the deck like this bunch of times follow the process everybody now give it that shuffle I think you were doing like this and that old fashioned shuffle go ahead give it a shuffle like that all right I think you're doing this too earlier weren't you okay yeah the overhand shuffle that's fine okay oh go ahead and fix it fine sumaya you're doing a good job okay now give it a casino shuffle one okay very good that's it is that good now set them facedown right here okay and would you sit when have you reach across now cut my deck a few times cut it finish it okay now take your deck and do this just reach in and pull out a card out of the middle got one show the audience look at it yourself got it okay you should remember yeah put it on top so everybody follows away got it now cut the deck put the other half on top got it okay now do is I here we go again give it the overhand shuffle like your head okay now give it a casino shuffle top Elevens there we go alright now reach across and cut my deck and finish it finish it okay now let me cut yours real quick sit on the table now take your deck go through it pull out your card and turn it face up on the table just thumb through the door turn and face up before you find your card the easiest ways to look up so that's the old-fashioned way tell me when you have your card okay put it face up on the table what is it okay now I'm going to not be old-fashioned I'm going to just cut try cutting a card right out of the middle remember we both shuffled each other's back back and forth what's that you give my shuffle you have you do a quick shuffle set them aside all right these dancer dreams each dancer excellent a stands for analysis L stands for loyalty we must be loyal to our company colleagues and customers and when you graduate get a position to reach the top you must create within yourself and for your company a value greater than what you're hired to do you must be passionate about what you do you know there's no stronger emotional component for success than passion I was obviously obviously passionate about cars cars cars now cards cars starter in the 70s I was hard to entertain but as an added bonus I got my client by performing venues what is known in the industry has earned media I got them priceless free national and international publicity worldwide television newspaper features magazine cover stories so we and whenever I did a television show or interviewed for a paper I always mentioned my show times in the name of my client made sure they mentioned it which is very very expensive our free advertising oh so you must analyze what personal passion actually talent you have that you can develop to become a greater asset for your company or just to reach your own personal dreams we also must be loyal to virtues such as honesty and integrity now if we choose to cheat to reach the top even five aces will be a loser you shuffle this deck yes yes would you grab the cards in the middle what do you have so everybody and the Deaf there's an Old West tombstone that reads played fiveaces now plays a heart what's that any v days bang you did shuffle because of my card skills I could be a very rich dead man started in the early 80s my notoriety with the cars began filtering down to the years of the underworld I've been wined and dined by some very powerful crime families one mobster after see what I could do with the cogs head which if you'd grant edition come work for us I said no thanks he said to ka I again politely refused is that how much will it cost could buy you I instantly had visions that waking up with a horse's head lying next to me Godfather movie another offer came from the Middle Eastern started off with a phone call a very strongly accented voice wanted to talk to me about doing business I said meet me aboard the riverboat where as a nightly entertainment I get aboard the boat it was a party of five men of Middle Eastern descent and only one spoke English the interpreter through a stack of bills on my table and said let's see what you can do with the cards I showed him after he said we'll give you ten thousand dollars a week to come to the Middle East and play cards for oil money I said nothing's and he was irate with Visa what they're turning down ten thousand dollars a week I said yep we argued with his boss and some foreign language they turned about turn back to me so how about twenty thousand a week thirty thousand a week finally he said how about a million dollars now he didn't say if that was by the week but I did say no irritate you they threw another stack of bills on my table and left and because they were so there were so many I thought they were all ones or fives they were all $100 bills they had a good night and didn't have to put myself in a position where I'd be 100% used this next whopper he was very rich very powerful and over the course of a number of years made me a series of offers to cheat we were dining his beautiful mountaintop mansion I told I am from the Middle East and he told me don't take it he said in a situation like that you'll be 100% used you understand what I'm trying to tell you for those that don't know what 100% used means it means they kill you when they're done with you I told him I know what it means he said those Middle East calm and he said they own half the world he said we owned the other half those were his very words he said we can arrange to have these card games take place in the United States and we'll back you here I thought to myself Wow hope you one minute use the model country that's the deal I was looking for now I have to confess over the years I have had people openly challenged me to use my skills to try to beat them I love situations like that because I had permission to teach and most of these were very successful businessmen with a loss of 10 or 20 grand meant nothing I had this one guy he owned a large commercial construction company he wanted to cut high card double or nothing he cut at an and I cut what's that card Trish I cut an ace he said let's double it again he cut a king and I cut what that card I cut another ace he said let's double it again he cut a jack and I cut with that again he asked the devil he cut another King and I cut with that card is our four aces and that night we doubled over a dozen times before he finally surrendered exponentially multiplying my wings menus you mind if I tell people who you really are do you guys know who she is Jason yes no she's known as middle deal mod she can deal cards from the center of the deck you'll swear they're coming off the top you don't mind showing off a little bit do you give the deck a quick shuffle all right that's good we don't stir we don't hold them we dealt blackjack this time would your five-card draw we make it release the only three players the only card off the top face down right here player 1 face down for poker Annie and now don't take mine off the top or the bottom reach in the middle of the deck and dealer card right here for me face down out of the middle watch this folks would you see that click me card number 2 we have 5 cards to each player card number 2 card number 2 and mine now the middle watches two other then watch this techniques invisible card number three card number three card with the only mine out of the middle not the Copperbottom out of the middle not quite as fast card number four card number four card them before as a middle out a little invisible card number five card number five card number five a little bit wobbly sound oh yeah okay good do you mind take your hand play your hand and we're playing five card draw so you it's just the same as Hold'em just look for the best hand look before look so look at your cards the card you like keep and ones you don't like middle do Lodge feel fresh in your hand okay okay so you draw first from your hands in your hand cards in your hand your fight cards right it was like you get impaired keep you have two pair keep up you have three of a kind keeper for cards to a straight and flush you might keep it you've ever royal flush throw it away no totally what have you just throw away and then tell she tell her she'll give you some how many watch another card she want you on what you're kidding for she's keeping for who you okay and I want you know also from the middle watch this everybody from the middle I'm a little clear if he magically appear magically infamous okay once again she shuffled she cut and she dealt people always say what happens when someone else is doing the dealing what do you have in your hand how many okay oh I have a pair too what's that what's that what's that and the card that they found she's good in G shuffle more stuff no they already started back to it others Edwin there's a straggler these sands are dreams East stands for excellent a stands for analysis L stands for loyalties T stands for tenacity I like that word too matheus when does they turn out that each other it's all tong tong tong tenacity and what is tenacity you know tenacity breaks down the barriers of stand between us and our dream as I stated earlier one of my dreams was to kick like Chuck Norris Chuck Norris was also teased and harassed as a kid and like master Norris I started cloudy training my karate instructor was master John Murphy Murphy had will was considered the toughest black belt black belt test in the country to earn a black belt under this crazy man Murphy had a fight a ten three-minute round out with a fresh black buddy trout boxer goes same guy same guy getting tired fresh guys drown and Murphy didn't want to deal with lawsuits so all the testing and training took place across the border in Tijuana seriously when one year at the Tijuana form I was one of three people that brought back the great Chuck Norris in a showdown and gets a group that they called themselves the Black Federation and I was by far the weakest fighter and I hoped that confrontation to that escalate fortunately for me one stern look from the master Chuck Norris and the federation batten down and left now when I first started cut out they my initial concern was fear the fear of getting smashed in the face from a kick I couldn't see coming and in the early years fear alone could trigger an asthma attack and you can't fight if he can't breathe your fear can paralyze we can be so worried about doing the wrong thing that we do nothing there's an old leanness proverb that warns us a man that's afraid to make a mistake is unlikely to make anything in other words totally worthless your fear of failure when left unchecked can lead to the very failure we fear however fear can motivate I think it's important that we seek out specific constructive criticism and when we get it don't get defensive that's our first inclination get defensive know you get offensive we must attack our weaknesses with vigor when I could still see amorphous shapes my quality instructor would tell me never advertise your weakness don't let them know all you see is a big blurry blob stare them down like you could see them and bulldoze right through through them the master martial artist Bruce Lee said there are no limits their plateaus but you must not stay there you must go beyond them if it kills you it kills you I like that if it kills you it kills you well I realized if I was ever going to survive 10 5 10 3 minute rounds I had to overcome the paralyzing effects of fear like they say on that's incredible don't try this at home I started climbing thousand foot cliffs I learned to swing on the trapeze I took 40-foot high falls I would tightrope around the rim of multi-story buildings and I hunted sharks all true Murphy also said you need to have a body of Steel I flashback to my childhood memories of Charlton have it has some change of the ship pulling the oar with his big bulging biceps I'm going to ever saw that movie well that image of strength always encouraged me to want to be stronger so I trained harder and Murphy Murphy pushed me to the point of being able to do 500 push-ups in 12 minutes 9 seconds I topped out at 3:40 on the bench press and I could curl and military more than my own bodyweight and I could also do the splits across two chairs and touch my head to the floor what took 13 years and three months of obsessive training before I was finally ready to take on the 10 man and because of my card fame the pressure was on me big-time the TV and print media were there including ABC television and the Los Angeles Times now Murphy said relax all you have to do is come out alive with spirit I said exactly what does that mean alive with spirit he said even if your teeth have been punched down your throat you're still smiling well during the test I hit some of these guys so hard I knocked them selling but they were fresh and I was not when it was all said and done I had one bruise started my head and at my told I had a smash bloody nose ruptured right eardrum I had my groin kicked into my throat many times it was an open target and I fought the last three and a half rounds with a broken right arm right there caught a roundhouse with the kick that snapped it and the next day the whole bloody mess was spread across the front page of a Los Angeles Times sports section now I don't recommend that we use our faces to block punches it hurts but I do say that we can face our fears and do a little tenacity we can over come them now I also remember there's no fear and being afraid trust me having 10 guys want to put the hurt on me I was afraid shame comes from hiding in the corner wallowing in fear consider Beethoven I like that guy Beethoven's later years he was deaf yet yet during those years he created some of the greatest music in the history of the world you put it press this year to the piano hit the chords with such force that sound would vibrate in his head that's tenacity of purpose now I'm going to show you how through a little tenacity of purpose I can take three cards and take somebody's money out there would you do me a favor and take out the deck two black twos or two twos that are black whatever you find first now the mouse's studio they get the difference setting right here face up to black to pull out one Red Queen uno Queen oh that's French I'm bilateral I speak Texan in English knowable Colombia and that's my Road y'all something anyway getting off track how many have seen the shell game where they have three shell a little pea they move them around you find a shell with V y'all know what I'm talking about right it's watch the streets of New York this is the sister to the shell game done with cards called three-card Monte and if you ever watched in the streets of New York you know where that P is when you put your money down it's not under any of the shelf they hide it in their hand you say here they go this up they go melting they lift up the other sell me redeposit they said it's over here they cheat damn cheaters well this is the sister delicate cards called tree card mine again what's that card for granny what's that two twos everybody what's that card money money money everybody keep your eyes glued to the Queen the queen is the money card winning card pay card let's say you come with $200 on the table anybody out there think they know where that Queen is called out of you think you know yeah hold it hold it hold it the first lady they called out what your name who invited you right here Meghan what's that Meghan what's this Meghan told you I was going to take three cars that take somebody's money maybe it's only 220 cash that's on me officer okay Megan we'll give you a few warm-ups and there were key losers with you so don't feel bad you weren't dealing when someone else does the second one down I put them I already bet go down watch it I don't think I hear every voice out there I can the idea it was called fine the little lady now Jason is really good at the same game Jason tell Megan where the Queen is one two or three sell fast he got it Megan be good it is you know two out of three times he gets it when spaceup truth we'll try it the other way pair of deuces pair of deuces keep your eyes glued to that little lady keep your eyes glued to the lady Jason tell Megan 1 2 3 you had you hesitated but you got it let's put money back on the table we'll go 100 it's real Megan we start working you got the idea pair of deuces pair of deuces pair of deuces keep your eye on that little baby keep your eye on the baby Megan are you following yes or no 1 2 3 Meg good job oh yeah we put money on the TV you start missing again $300 watch again pair of deuces pair of deuces pair deuces keep your eye on the baby eye on the baby okay poker Annie are you following Annie tell them one two three four hundred I better slow it down for the losers we have a winner we have a loser another loser are you all following or you laughing remember Queen wins whatever you do don't take one of those deuces Trish tell everybody oh you were so close you were right next to it didn't count but you were right next to it we're it's you what when you watch remember this remember this when you pick the Queen when you pick the Queen you win the money when you pick one two deuces that's when I win the money tell them out Annie can't oh you need help too okay how about this how about this how about this how about this what's that card Annie what's in the corner a fold this is so Meghan if you go to a place called New York foreign country they do this on the streets and I'm Meghan are you with me I won't move a bring it to you tell me when you're ready say go when you're ready where's it vagin there ya go Oh I I hate I hate to say it but you're in debt so I'll give you a souvenir something to remind you you should never play this you want to clean or to which one any taker I don't know why she caught sworn to be so bigoted what'd you get where'd you get another hundred dollars oh my gosh you're down eleven hundred dollars your hand me that card face up so everybody can see what you picked okay Megan this would be the I'm going to give you one double or nothing it's only because you guys are friends here I'll give you a double enough and I usually do you don't usually give double or nothing you said you had better luck with deuces one two three tell Trish she'll turn it over which one you want to turn one two or three outloud on a deuce go turn over the middle one tell us what it is out loud turn them all over turn them all over what do you have to them all of it what are they look under here Megan look under here look under here when the money gets big Megan I cheat but I gave you fair warning that night all face-up in closing in the game of life stay focused on your game don't let anyone tell you you can't play or something's impossible take possible out of impossible take possible out of impossible I understand that time the time we're all dealt a bad hand or two bits how we approach that hand if we choose to fold wine sit on our pity pot or go all-in that's what separates losers from the winners you know respectful success comes from those who go for their dreams achieve a state of excellence analyze their obstacles and assets say loyalty virtues such as honesty and integrity and have the tenacity to break down any barrier DEA LT MIT students big winners because the way you play your hands here's one last thing for you Megan you pay attention there's something you never do when you play for money never do this never shuffle a deck one and he can it makes the other players nervous when they see you shovel with one hand if they see you shuffle with one hand while you triple cut with the other they get up and run and you are left playing solitaire and on that note unless of course there's somebody out there that would like to stick around and maybe go out back and play a hand or two now shows you what happens when you play with a cheat anyway I hope you all had fun thank you very much thank you for thank you Annie did you have fun [Applause] Oh Hey ah so that is absolutely a big Wow it's just absolutely amazing which is absolutely amazing you're an amazing person well I appreciate that out you know we have actually quite at a time for Q&A you

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