Are you good at card tricks?

[TadW]

I admit I suck at card tricks. I am so bad that at the end of my performance, everyone who watched me knew immediately how I did the trick.

But look at this guy:
http://www.jokaroo.com/extremevideos/cardtricks.html

It's insaaaaaane. Do you have any idea how he did that?

[hacker]

Originally Posted by TadW

It's insaaaaaane. Do you have any idea how he did that?

Having done magic and illusion since I was 6 years old (and yes, I've met David Copperfield dozens of times and been onstage with him once in Hartford, CT. several years ago), I can say this is a very well-known dealer's trick. Its much harder with a full deck of cards in your hand, but the sleight is fairly easy to learn once you know how.

I actually invented my own card illusion that relies on a modified version of this move, that I was going to market years ago. Basically you have a deck of cards with holes drilled through two opposite corners. The spectator picks a card which is randomly shuffled back into the deck. The deck is "threaded" with a rope through both holes. I take one end and the spectator takes the other and we pull. One card pops out of the deck, and its their card.

I should have gone into magic instead of computers, but years ago I severed my right thumb from my hand in an accident (it was reattached, no loss of movement or feeling, amazing surgery; ugly scar), and was discouraged from it for years while going through depressing rehab.

Ah well, live, learn, grow. Neat trick though.