Scarne teaches Sleight of Hand!!

gambling could cost you money especially when it's crooked fours of a kind or powerful hands in poker but they always lose to a royal flush and the royal flush in this case is held by John scar knee America's leading exposure of dishonest gambling like an athlete's car knee keeps in training but all his skill lies in his fingers and finesse he's mastered every card thirteen spades remain on the top of the deck now you can watch in slow motion once more the 13 spades are on the top of the deck just where he wants them to be when he's through shuffling as the cards merge it looks on the level but notice what happens now the cards are pulled through and come out on the other side exactly as they went in this is called the pull through it can easily be mastered and it looks exactly like the real thing as though there really was an honest shuffle of course we know it wasn't honest at all thanks to the camera plus the fact that 13 Spades that went in at the top just shouldn't come out the same way here again you see that pull through shuffle it looks honest but it should warn you not to play with total strangers another trick of the card shark he takes the 4-h puts them on top of the deck and cuts the cards when he deals there are the four eights which should have been in the middle of the pack to show you how smooth he is Carney does it again this time with the eights face up let's watch this in slow motion the poor aides go on top of the deck then notice that as he draws out the bottom half of the deck his fingers spread to put the top supposedly on the bottom but wait a minute this means that there was never really a change at all the cut took place all right but the cards were switched right back to where they started gamblers call this illegal sleight of hand cut switching it is an extra-fine method of cheating used when a card sharp is not working with an accomplice and has to rely on his own ingenuity another thing to guard against is the lone Pro coud eels from the bottom first he stacks the deck to put the cards he wants on the bottom then he deals out the hands dealing only to himself from the bottom and giving himself the four big aces of course looking up through a glass top table we can see how it's done notice again that he uses just half of the deck according to scar knee this is a tip-off to this cheating maneuver this is not to say that highly trained card sharps can't deal from the bottom with an entire day it's just that a half pack makes it easy when the deck is thin it's almost impossible to detect bottom deal when a crook has four hidden aces you're in trouble now with all the cards spread out here is an example of cheating that requires the ultimate in card manipulation John places four aces at random into the open deck then by using every trick that you've seen and even some more that you haven't he'll bring those aces out where he wants them by pull through shuffling switch cutting and second card and bottom card dealing they all fall into place did you want the ace of clubs how about the ace of diamond the ace of heart hey did you get all those straight well as usual you were wrong there's a fancy word for this it's called prestidigitation once again using the same simple fundamentals of don't bet on what you thought you saw now let's assume thats Carney is dealing stud or blackjack and has a queen up and a deuce in the hole did we say a deuce a slow-motion close-up allows you to observe what is much too quick for the unaided eye the Queen is being flipped into the palm scar knee has the other whole card under his palm and it takes just a fraction of a second to exchange them a deuce is not a deuce nor is a queen a queen as long as scar knee can get his hand over the whole card for the allotted moment of time since it's common practice to put your hand over the whole card the whole card switch can be used at will by the clever cheater the morale of this can not be emphasized enough never gamble at cards unless you know at least one of the players and can be sure that the game is honest with long and constant practice anyone can master these tricks you must remember that some people use them to cheat let's go back to where we started with a crooked dealer in the game of poker late in the game the card sharp deals and everyone gets a tremendous fighting hat but he deals himself an overwhelming royal flush and his victims might just as well throw their money away don't let yourself get into a gentlemen's game of sense you might not run into an honest card shark like John Sculley you

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Keywords: magic, playing cards, close up magic, tricks, revealed, card, david blaine, juan tamariz, scarne, john scarne, magic tricks

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Length: 6min 59sec (419 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 10 2013