If you like to gamble, stick to pool.

Saw this guy on Pen and Teller fool us show, amazing what he can do, and he is blind. Humans are amazing.
 
Twice I've seen card cheats in private games where it was easy to see what they were doing if you just knew a little about the moves. This guy is incredible or maybe invisible. I wonder how many times in private games I failed to see what was going on.

There was a kid, maybe 14 or 15 who hung around the pool hall for a while. He showed us some card tricks that we couldn't figure out. When he played poker with his buddies, they wouldn't let him touch the cards. He still won because they didn't know how to play poker.

You gotta wonder how many players out there milk private card games for a steady income with both card sense and the occasional move.
 
Grosses of cards

Dad shut down one station and opened another full service gas station back in the day they always had giveaways to attract customers. The giveaways kept coming and we ended up with six or eight gross of cards with only two back patterns. Sitting around at the new station with nothing to do for hours when things were slow I shuffled cards by the hour.

Once you can do a perfect shuffle over and over you know where every card is in relation to where they were when you picked them up. I think it was four perfect shuffles to restore them to exactly where they were. No doubt why these shuffles aren't allowed in most play today but were the normal in private games back then. Easy to build a top stock or bottom stock then it was just a matter of getting the stock where you wanted it after the cut.

I didn't particularly like gambling and rarely played cards. I knew a few people that could do tricks with dice so I never played dice. Pool was rarely gambling so I settled happily into playing pool.

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did it go clean?
 

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I grew up in a small town, Timmins Ontario, Canada. A population of 40,000 but 5 pool rooms, all 6x12 snooker tables, a few 4x8s. All were booming! The one I hung out in 7 days a week from open to close was called Ellis Billiards. There was a continuous poker game in back room. 7 card stud, and dealer could call 1 wild card if he wanted. 2 down, 4 up, one down. One player would check bottom card, then clumsily place it in the deck so it would be his hole card. That would be what he called as wild. All the regulars knew it but let him continue this because he was donating money on a regular basis. We just played the hands he dealt a bit different.
 
jimmyquinella said:
Richard Turner is one of my favorite card mechanics. Here is the link to his documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPuQF3eSJso

Ricky Jay just passed and he is a well known actor/mechanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgUSUHnzLI&t=205s


Darwin Ortiz was one of the first mechanics I heard of and saw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrhvfHbVi0E
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I'll add SHIN LIM.. some of his tricks are mind boggling..

I remember seeing Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants back in the day..
did great tricks and had a great rap.. House Of Games, anybody?
 
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