How to Make a Gambler's Rose. Easy Card Trick

This is an easy card trick my dad taught me as a child. It always makes people stop and look at it and go "How did you do that?". You can use any type of cards to do this. I could only find phase 3 cards. It looks much better in person. The trick is just to keep the cards bending up and down and rotating the deck ever so often.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A deck of cards. any type will do.

1. 

   Begin by having your cards in a neat stack. Hold them with your thumbs on top and your fingers underneath. The short side of the deck will be the side you want to be holding on to, as illustrated in the photograph.

2. 

   Start bending the cards up, then back down.

3. Keep doing this and they will begin to fan out. Without letting them slip, slowly rotate the deck every now and then.

4. 
   The Gambler's Rose is much nicer in person.

   Keep going until you get a nice spiral stack. Then you have what my dad called a Gambler's Rose.

[cheapcindy]

on 1/27/2009 great - now i'll be up all night trying to do this! thanks

[Ballzy]

on 1/13/2009 Thanks for the tip! I have actually heard of this before! Thanks again

[IcyCucky]

on 12/30/2008 What a fun to learn and do! 5*

[rorsich]

on 12/21/2008 Ohhhh thats tight! Do you have any card magic tricks?? I was at the bar a few weeks back, and this guy took a deck of cards - Had me pick one, put it in the MIDDLE of the deck (I WATCHED HIM) - Then he flicked the top of the deck, and that TOP CARD was my card!!! How did he do that????

5***** & recommend!!