There are several methods I use for “losing” the aces into a deck of cards and controlling them to the top. Several involve cutting the deck into four piles and losing the aces, one in each pile. One day I was looking at some magic sites preview videos and saw a different method that I thought looked good. So I deconstructed the performance, figuring out what the magician had done. While I can’t be certain that this is the same method, I think it is close.
Continue reading “Four ace control”Only a second, almost
This is similar to “Only a second” so I suggest you look at that one as well. This one distributes the aces with two faro shuffles, hence the “almost” in the title.
Continue reading “Only a second, almost”CHaSeD order
I just noticed something about the Club, Hearts, Spades and Diamonds suit order that is used in many different deck stacks. Since stacks are cyclic, this order of suits is equivalent to Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades. Which is a numerical progression order if you look at the “points” of the pips of the suit. Diamonds has four points, Clubs has three, Hearts has two, and Spades has one. So instead of looking at a suit and using the mnemonic CHaSeD to figure out the next suit, you can simply look at the “points” and subtract one. Thus a Heart (two points) is followed by a Spade (one point). Diamonds (four points) is followed by a Club (three points).
Only a second
Another “find the aces” trick. This one is good for practicing your second deal.
Begin with secretly having the four aces on top of the deck. I typically have the spectator shuffle the deck, and then use my two-step cull to get the aces on top. Riffle or overhand shuffle to add eight more cards on top of the deck. I usually use two riffle shuffles to add four cards at a time.
Continue reading “Only a second”Ten card poker deal
There are a lot of ten card poker deals out there. The basic plot is that for the final hand of the evening your opponent suggested playing a hand of five card poker with only ten cards, but the spectator gets to choose which cards they get. You, the dealer ends up winning with a pat hand, usually a Royal Flush.
Continue reading “Ten card poker deal”Finding the Aces – the hard way
Here is something I am playing with.
The starting position is two aces on top and two on the bottom. Shuffle the deck keeping the aces on top and bottom.
Continue reading “Finding the Aces – the hard way”Texas Hold-em stacks
A couple of years ago I wrote a post titled “Finding the aces with Erdnase” where I used Erdnase’s system of overhand shuffle to stack the aces at know positions in the deck.
The positions I used were 10x cards, Ace, 1x card, Ace, 5x cards, and the last Ace. In this post I generalize that method to place the aces at whatever locations you want.
Continue reading “Texas Hold-em stacks”Easy Riffle Stacking
In the normal method of riffle stacking you start with the four aces on top. When you do the shuffles you hold back cards with both the right and left hands, dropping the cards held by the left thumb under the cards held back by the right thumb. At each shuffle the number of cards held back by the left stays the same, but those held by the right decrease.
Continue reading “Easy Riffle Stacking”Perspective on card shuffling
The largest U.S. manufacture of playing cards sells approx. 100,000,000
decks of playing cards per year. This can be expressed as 108.
Riffle stack
This is something I am playing with.
Effect
The basic effect is that four aces are placed into the deck at random locations and then the deck is shuffled multiple times. Then five hands of poker are dealt out, with the dealer getting the four aces.