3 Card Monte ~ An In Depth Tutorial

you this is a tutorial for the three-card Monte routine I did in another video there's several different routines but the basic concept is the same in this particular routine is one of the first magic tricks I ever bought in the early 70s it was a packet trick called color Monte I think I paid for that same trick several times because I'd always leave it in my pocket and then get run through wash so I just use regular cards now there's another routine called this and that card it's pretty much the same routine taken from color Monte with a different storyline so by popular demand here's the routine real quick and then the tutorial I was showing someone three-card Monte I have three cards the first card is a joker the second card is a joker the third card is an ace if you can tell me where the ace is I'll give you a dollar if you're wrong you owe me a dollar the ace is on the top if I place it on the bottom where is the ace you said it's on the bottom wrong you owe me a dollar try again you said it's on the top wrong you owe me a dollar they said it's in the middle wrong you owe me a dollar wait a minute you don't even have an ace wrong you owe me a dollar you're not doing so well so why don't you tell me where a joker is instead he said sure ones on the top wrong you owe me a dollar it's got to be one in the middle wrong you owe me a dollar wait a minute you're using more than three cards one two three wrong you owe me seven dollars tell you what we'll do it double or nothing I'll show you these two cards if you can tell me what this card is you don't owe me anything if you're wrong you owe me $14 now they never get the great thing about this trick is that you can use three ordinary cards there's no extra hidden cards when you're done with the trick the spectators can examine them it's just three normal cards I usually pick a joker because it's more believable those two jokers or you can use a guaranteed card an ace and then you know something bright and colorful to show at the end after you've chosen the cards you're going to use this is the order that you put them in this is the card you're going to hide till the end this is the card you're going to show twice and I suggest using a joker or you can use a blank card it's more believable that you have two of them because most people don't have this many packs of cards and then the third card this is going to be the money card this is the order this card goes underneath this card goes on the top so when you turn it over the first card is the hidden card the second card is the double card and that's the money card that's your order there's two moves that you need to learn I'm going to go through both moves and then I'll go through the routine the first move is a double lift performing a double lift using only three cards is one of the easiest double lifts you can ever do put pressure with between your finger here and your thumb and you merely squeeze the first two cards over putting pressure here so you have a single card here and you've pushed two cards over push it over now I see a lot of people they'll grab it and flip it in they're squeezing here trying to hold the cards together and then they'll turn it over and it looks so fake push it over and just grab it and flip it over just be casual about it flip it over again flip it over catch it let it rest you got borders around here so even if the NED shows slightly nobody's going to see it and what you're trying to do is make this look like this that's a single lift this is a double lift the only difference is where you're applying pressure for a single lift you're going to push the card but you're going to put pressure here and with your thumb so that you're retaining two cards here and you're pushing a single card so that's where the pressure is here right there and you push the single card note try to imitate the same thing doing a single lift as you do a double lift so the single lift looks like this and the double lift is like this you want them both to look the same practice going back and forth between the two you see we have that on the top and that's that so do a single lift flip it over single lift flip it over double lift flip it over double lift flip it over practice those back and forth also placing a card on the bottom using a single and double lift single lift hold the card grip it like this so you can slide it underneath like that let's put it back to keep the order so you can put a single card under like that you want that to look the same as putting two cards which is the double lift and putting two cards on the bottom the double lift enables you to show the second card as if it's on the top and it's the second card down when you do a double lift the next move you're going to need to learn I call it a top slide you're going to show the bottom card as the top card hold the deck like this with your index finger grip grip the three cards so you're holding them pretty good with your hand like this take your index finger and slide the first card down slightly just a little bit so you can see right there now there's two cards here and there's one card there now with your middle finger and your index finger put your index finger back on this card and your middle finger on this one and hold the bottom card which is the ace hold the bottom card with your palm and slide these two cards forward like that so now what you've created I'll show you in here you have the top and the bottom card protruding and the middle card is sticking up so it's like this slide down and push up use this thumb on the back as you push up to stop it so it keeps the top card and the bottom card flush at the bottom here pinch them both together pull them out as one you have the top and you have the bottom card this is the middle card pull these out as one drop them in place be casual about it don't worry about it when you're done showing the card do it this is where you're at when you're done showing the card do a double lift here's how to do this routine using the moves I just showed you I'm not going to go through the story you can watch the routine again to get that because I'm going to be busy telling you what you're supposed to be doing the first move is a double lift you show the Joker double lifted again do a single lift place the five down do a single lift showing the Joker again single lift place it down and now you show your money card single lift the money card over single lift now do a double lift and place it on the bottom show the Joker now when they're going to guess it on the top again this is when you do the slide so you're going to pull these two cards out and show the Joker again double lift it at this point you're all set up to spread it and show the Joker in the middle now that as the story goes along then he says you don't have an ace while the ace is all set up on the bottom to show and when he guesses where it's at again you do a slide pull the ace over here showing the ace do a double lift turning it over setting you up for the ACE to be in the middle now at this point he's questioning how many cards you got so you count them off one two three changes the order for you and set you up so you can lay that card down and lay that card down and then you say you owe me 14 bucks here's a couple more tips as you're practicing hours on end use several groups of cards because after you practice with the same three cards after about 20 minutes or so the heat from your hand gets into the cards and they don't bend the same you can't do double lifts is easy so after about 20 minutes switch to a fresh group and you can alternate between different groups also when you're storing these you know you may have three cards that you use all the time I use these plexiglass pieces and I'll put three cards in there stack it and I use these you can get these in Home Depot or the dollar store and you just clamp them in there leave them overnight straighten them out flattens them out you can put whole entire decks in there anyway thanks for watching

Channel: Tom Matriq

Views: 4,021,947

Keywords: magician, magic, illusion, trick, tutorial, cards, magic trick, card trick, sleight of hand, magic tutorial, hidden, secret, secrets, reveal, revealed, knowledge, magical, intelligence, tricks, mind, mind magic, scam, 3 card monte, 4 card monte, 3 card trick, gambling, casino, Tom Matriq, tommatriq

Id: QJv44-Ghj_Y

Length: 10min 44sec (644 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 31 2016