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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