Pool Table Card Trick

jgpool

jgpool

Cue ball draw with this?
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I saw this card trick on a pool table. Spread one deck around on the pool table either face up or down. Shoot a ball around the table and make it land on a card. Then they take another deck, fan it out and that card that you landed on will be facing the opposite direction. Please splain, please???:confused: :confused:
 
I have seen this also. I actually want to get it, just for curiosity's sake. Where did you see it? If I get it I will tell you how it is done. I have seen different versions of this card trick before( chris angel does some very similar ones). I work in a pool room, so I thought it would be a bit of fun to have around.
 
I saw it on another forum.

poolpro said:
I have seen this also. I actually want to get it, just for curiosity's sake. Where did you see it? If I get it I will tell you how it is done. I have seen different versions of this card trick before( chris angel does some very similar ones). I work in a pool room, so I thought it would be a bit of fun to have around.
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I saw it on another forum. :confused: If I find it I'll post a link.
 
Either one or both of the decks is tricked. Notice when he fans out the first deck, you only see one face card. when he fans through the second deck there appear to be only about half the full amount of cards, but they look thick. It's easy to pick out a particular face up card when every other card -- half the deck -- is actually face up (which half depends on how you take the deck out of the box) and the cards are in a known order.
 
sjb said:
Either one or both of the decks is tricked. Notice when he fans out the first deck, you only see one face card. when he fans through the second deck there appear to be only about half the full amount of cards, but they look thick. It's easy to pick out a particular face up card when every other card -- half the deck -- is actually face up (which half depends on how you take the deck out of the box) and the cards are in a known order.
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I had a book that exposed a lot of cons. In it the author said that there are more doctored card decks sold than honest decks. I doubt this but he was just making a point that you can go to any magic shop and get a doctored deck. The decks can be marked, shaved, all the same or as stated above a deck that contains 104 cards with half of them being the same. One way to expose some of these is to have them repeat it. They won't because the selected card will be the same due to the way that the doctored deck is set up.
 
It's a nice trick...

Back when I was into magic (long ago) that trick was known as "The Invisible Deck".

The reason it is called that, is because of the original "patter", which was geared
around an invisible deck of playing cards. It went like this:

Here I have an invisible deck of playing cards in my hands. Please take it, and hold it.
OK, open the deck, select any card and remember what card it was. OK? Now turn
the card over, and put the card in the deck backwards (or upside down). Now put the
cards back in the box.

Then the magician takes out another (real) boxed deck of cards from his pocket, and
asks what card did you select? The person tells him the card, (which doesn't matter, it
can be any card) and when the magician opens up the real box of cards, and fans them
out, the card that the person selected is indeed reversed also!

In case you can't find the trick, or wish to make a few decks, search out a product called
"roughing fluid". It will allow you to make such a deck from a regular deck of cards, and
also make many other similar tricks.
 
Im no magician but...

I am pretty sure that me and a cohort could practice this trick enough to emulate it perfectly. Here is how I would pull it off.


Step one

1. Have my friend practice the five rail kick shot shown in the video over and over again until he could place the cue ball within a few inches of the spot show.

2. Stack the deck so that the queen of spades is the fifth card in the deck.

3. Place the fifth card in the deck at the spot that my friend is going to hit the cue ball.

4. Spread the other cards out in a random order leaving more space around the queen of spades than the other cards (just like the vid)

5. Never touch the queen of spades while ranomizing the cards (just like in the vid)

6. Have a second deck of cards at ready with the blue queen of spades from another deck.

7. Hit the shot

8. Magic

Read these steps and then watch the video...pretty easy if you ask me.
 
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