RICHARD TURNER | Afternoon Express | 28 February 2020

but first app they call him the card mechanic Richard Serra is one of the world's most prolific sleight of hand artists over his long career he's dazzled audiences around the world and in 2017 was the subject of a critically acclaimed documentary called downs mechanic is somebody who can fix something an auto mechanic fixes a car a body mechanic was a professional killer I'm a car mechanic I can fix a car game face of cards Richard Turner he can do things with cards no one else can do he's a trickster he is demonstrating the moves used by cheaters the most difficult things you could do with a deck of cards I represent why should never play cards with strength when I saw Richard Turner perform I was in the presence of great about halfway through the show you can see different members of the audience realize it this guy can't see people have introduced me saying oh by the way he's blind what does that have to do with anything I'm just Richard Turner you just said traduce me as that statement that can be made about magic is that there aren't as many limits as we generally think don't let anyone tell you that it's impossible I want to be known for what I do on its own merit because I don't consider myself disabled an international phenomenon the man that has been behind a lot of card tricks that we just have to find out how did he do it I am talking about the number one and only mr. Richard Serra thank you for inviting me and I'm honored to be here with such a lovely lady with a pretty name thank you so pretty pretty police oh no you seem to be definitely the man of so many talents you seem to be good at almost anything and everything that you do but starting off I have to start with the cards yes how did your love for magic and card games even even even begin for now used to be such an incredible man and ranked number one yeah I started off as a little boy watching the old cowboy westerns where there was always a scene where a gambler is getting shot for cheating I played cards I wanted to make sure I once I started figuring out ways in 1975 I met a man named professor Dai Vernon and at the time he was considered the best in the world with a deck of cards yeah and he was known as the man who fooled Houdini and Houdini was a very famous escape artist and there was a hundred years ago this year 1920 that he fooled Houdini and he was known as the man who fooled Houdini and he took a liking to me and I became the recipient of a century worth of his most guarded card-table techniques but I see I know that in that journey of you working very very close with him he set you up for failure he he would give you tasks that were impossible that is exactly right because I couldn't see my last sigh so losing my sight when I was nine yes and so because I couldn't see he tricked me he would describe them moves to me in the way he wished he could do them moves that he literally spent fifty years trying to do never accomplish and then you say Richard this is feel my fingers feel this this is how it's done and I believed it could be done so I practice practice thousands of hours some moves ten thousands of hours and then I go back and go that's it that's perfect and then he were and then it was only years later that he confessed admitted to me that won't stop me he made it up he just want to see what the crazy kid would come up with and the crazy kid pulled it off after time time axis dedication commitment I mean for all of our viewers at home if that is not a life lesson I don't know what is if you don't know already Richard lost his eyesight at nine years old so everything that you've learned has just been through practice and touch exactly touch and because my sight went my fingers became more sensitive and because I ever egde practicing about 14 hours a day with the cards seven days a week year after year decade after decade I the both of those hands enhanced each other sight just knows distraction fingers very sensitive and then I'm working with things on a microscopic level yes I'll show you something please do I'm very excited to get into this because I have tried to find out figure out how you do such incredible work I've watched so many YouTube videos so I want to see if you're able to trick me today and if I can find out what makes you the card mechanic yes and just define it for the audience a mechanic if somebody who can fix a card game magicians do tricks for the purpose of entertainment a card mechanic is somebody let a card table maneuvers the cars in such a way that they get the money and those techniques are many many times more difficult to develop and you cannot use misdirection anything else because in a card game if you try to say look over here while you some of your bangs in one from Texas and they pulled out guns if you're a gambler and you definitely have a lot of money in Orden and money at stake a lot of people want you right arm next to them helping them out I have I have offers in Sun City here and I'm going to tell the story what I'm performing at not arts kate yes and I'm doing my full show and just about a five-minute story of how I was stalked around the world by a diamond dealer out of South Africa out of Sun City who wanted me to play in these high state games with the diamond dealers to try to control who got the money him and his partner and then he was offered me what would be in your figure millions in in your money to do for my part from from stalking you on a plane there you'd be waiting for me well I think that says a lot about your talents and your skill you are being hit Hansard across the world so I need to get in on some of this apple tree and find out how it all works we're in a card game first of all you want to make sure the cards are evenly mixed and the casinos they like the deck to be shuffled in about fifteen to seventeen seconds so they will give the deck what's called a riffle shuffle they do it twice as Feld riffle riffle and then they do what's called a strip cut reversing the top and bottom halves of the cards another riffle and another cut that's basic casino procedure that took about about 12 seconds and the deck should be pretty evenly mixed let's take a little peaky and see how evenly mixed the decades do we have ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 are they perfect I shuffle them into perfect order absolutely that's what I call it even a mixed deck now watch we're gonna scramble them up face up so the audience can see if because magicians have what are called shave cards with their different sizes and where I were to mess all that up and I'm gonna give this take a quick shuffle I mean for our viewers at home that you are not here physically to see the incredible work that Richard is doing but all of these cards are identical all these cards are the same same size same shape there's no way to tell them apart really yes and now you shuffle okay anyway you do it anyway you know how so the point you get when you I can be very sneaky when I shuffle okay I will see what happens when you even out the playing field and let me do some shuffling yeah viewers at home you can really see I'm going for gold yeah I am shuffling it up quite well here you go Richard a man very good sir my head perfect now you know we're gonna play a hand of Poker okay and then poker games well first on this that's dentists do something they have what's called a wild card just cut the deck in half just cut up just cut off half and they have what's called - zur wild other games are just cut a deck and that would be the wild card just to make it more random just say any random number three four five seven oh one two what's that card it's a one-hour pots that's hot hey that's ace yes okay no one about I'm not much of a card person I do not know much about this card life and card games but what I do know and and and the shapes okay now watch I'm gonna give this deck a shuffle of percent they cut the deck so that buries the top and bottom then they will shuffle them and I watch again I'll cut the deck bury in the top and bottom halves of the deck and I'm going to give them a shuffle now did everything look legit yes and again you would have thought everything was legitimate now they have what's called the cut now I want you to see the card on top of the deck what is that card five of the five is on top so the deck is cut and the deck is no longer cut the five is still on top I'll show you I'll show you I'll show you why she can did I'll do it with the card face up the deck is no longer cut that's how fast that's not fast I can uncut a deck of cards and I have my drums my sticks okay now we can put the deck on a card they put a card on the bottom to pin the deck now you watch me give the deck a shuffle now we're gonna play a game of Texas Hold'em those popular poker game in the world you pick a number of players five six or seven five five players one two three keep mine essence in order four five one two three four five Vern and we have what's called the flop now what are those three cards it's a king a six and an ace okay a burn in a turn with that and eight eight learn in a turn was that ace o-- two aces and let's give it of our first card and you're my partner you're sitting over here and hand number four this if you look good here what's that card oh what's that card yes four aces you just whip their high knees big time that would have been a winner so big time where is that you forgot the bed okay Gary let's make sure they're all facedown yes yeah oh no that's on my face time I'll let you fix it yeah that's your job that I can do okay because square them up when you're done screw them up when you're done yes now shuffle them up okay this is the lost idea we have to go to add break yes would you like me to cut one of your aces to the top of the deck to the bottom of the deck or right from the middle of the deck did you all about being number one on top so you want me to cut a card to the top to give the deck a triple cut what is that do you want a top bottom top bottom a little real quick right out of the middle she wants it all right other than I know we have to go to go to break so I'm going to speed up the process what are those three cars we could get even more spectacular it being the end of the week well it just did I have to go to a break after this are coming after coming up after the break I sit down with media personality ush other to talk about beauty success and family plus the Cape Town comedy festival is kicking off this weekend and coming up on the show we meet some of the international stars see you after the break oh my goodness Richard

Channel: Afternoon Express

Views: 5,214

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Afternoon Express, full episode, sabc3, Jeannie D, RICHARD TURNER, 28 February 2020, gaming expert, gambler, master Card Mechanic/Manipulator, old-west casino, high-stakes gambler, unparalleled skill, staggered audiences

Id: 8xYGhmjF6-s

Length: 11min 41sec (701 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 02 2020