{"id":7354,"date":"2025-08-19T18:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:50:16","slug":"stacking-a-royal-flush-for-a-five-handed-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/stacking-a-royal-flush-for-a-five-handed-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacking a Royal Flush for a five handed game."},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished writing up the trick “Just Lucky<\/a>“, which ends with you having found a Royal Flush. So I thought a good follow up trick would be to demonstrate how a card cheat could take those cards and stack them to be dealt to the dealer in a five handed game of draw poker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I wrote up the “4-5-1” stack in an earlier post, using it to stack four aces, so that is my starting point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start with four cards of the flush on top, and the fifth one on the bottom of the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set the deck on the table to start a tabled riffle shuffle. Cut the deck in half, taking the top half in your right hand. But as you do, riffle off four cards off the bottom of the right hand portion and get a right thumb break above them.
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Start your riffle shuffle by dropping those four cards from the right hand and the riffle off at least one card from the left hand. Continue to riffle and end by holding back four cards from the top of the left hand block. Hold back at least four cards from the right hand block.
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Drop the right hand cards, and then the left hand cards.
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You now have four cards below the bottom flush card, and four cards above the top four flush cards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do a second riffle, beginning with the left hand block, dropping at least five cards before adding the right hand riffle. End by adding four cards from the left hand onto the four indifferent cards that are on top of your four cards of the flush in the right hand. Be careful not do disturb those cards in your riffle shuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Situation check. From the top down: 8 indifferent cards, 4 royal flush cards, 35 indifferent cards, 1 royal flush card, and finally 4 indifferent cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you are ready to begin the modified 451 stack. Take the deck in your right hand in the position for an overhand shuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run four cards into your left hand and then throw the right hand cards on top. As you do this let the right hand cards hit your left fingers which creates a side jog of cards.
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Pick up the deck from the left hand, but be careful to keep the side jog in place. Run five cards into your left hand and throw the right hand cards on top, but keep the side jog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeat, but only run one card. This is the “451” stack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now your right hand picks up all the cards at the side jog and runs one card onto those cards you already have stacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pick up all the cards, maintaining the side jog, and run five cards to the bottom of the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now pick up the cards at the side jog, which leaves sixteen stacked cards in you right hand, and run four cards on to those stacked cards. Injog the next card and shuffle off until you have about ten cards left in you right hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run those cards singly. Now do a single cut, cutting at the injogged card, cutting it to the bottom of the deck. When the cut is completed the stack in on top ready to be dealt. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished writing up the trick “Just Lucky“, which ends with you having found a Royal Flush. So I thought a good follow up trick would be to demonstrate how a card cheat could take those cards and stack them to be dealt to the dealer in a five handed game of draw poker.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,168,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","category-overhand-stack","category-poker-stack"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob","author_link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}