How to Deal Playing Cards

Video Transcript

" My name is Chris McKay with Expert Village.com. If you would like to check out more about me and my services as a magician, you can go to my website that is www.mckaymagic.com. I want to show you guys today how to deal cards. This is something that’s some people can’t just do quite right; I’ll give you a couple of pointers, Basically, you want to push the cards off when you are in mechanics grip and if you don’t know mechanics grips, just check out the other video. You are in mechanics grip you want to push off cards, you want to try and push them off one at a time, and you don’t want to have a big spread of cards here because it’s going to make it hard for you to grip on to just one card. So you are going to try and regulate how many cards you are pushing over by using these three fingers here; that’s kind of a gage. You can feel how many cards you’re pushing over and all you want to do is be able to push off one card at a time. Another thing that’s very important when you are dealing is that you don’t expose the cards in anyway and flicking them down like this can obviously and really expose the cards to other players. So it’s a good practice and what they do in casinos is they kind of glide the card across the table or just push it right to the person they just deal with down under the table and in front of him and push it to the person because you don’t want to have someone prematurely see what the value of card is. You know if you’ve got a big table you don’t really want to push the card all the way across because it could catch a puff of air and then flip over all together and that’s not good at all. So probably the best way of doing it is just to you know go around, get as close you can to each person and just put the card down. There is no need to flick it down, just place the card down in front of the person it belongs to. So that’s the basics of dealing a card."