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.
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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.
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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.
Method
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This is another method for stacking the deck for straight poker, dealing out five hands.
YAOS – yet another overhand stack
I found this in “Card Zones – The Immaculate Card Magic of Peter Duffie.” This book describes a stack for four hands and then gives the formula for other number of hands. Since I always demonstrate a five handed stack here are the steps.
Continue reading “YAOS – yet another overhand stack”Stacking the deck
Below is one of my “Starbucks” videos of a practice session of stacking the deck. What I like to do is stack the four aces for a five handed game using different stacking techniques. In the video I stack the deck with a Zarrow shuffle, then a riffle shuffle technique, then Erdnase overhand shuffle, a milk shuffle, and an overhand shuffle from Dai Vernon.
Continue reading “Stacking the deck”Pick up stack
There are a lot of techniques for stacking poker hands, from the simple milk shuffle, to Erdnase, to riffle stacking, to using Zarrow shuffles. But one of the simplest is to do a “pick up” stack, which is simple stacking the cards you want as you pick cards off the table.
This is how I do it for a “poker stacking” demonstration. A I present this as a shuffle stacking demonstation, it really is a bluff stack, in that the shuffle is not doing the stacking.
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