A Poker Magic Card Trick

Video Transcript

" Hi everybody! Malik the Magic Guy for expertvillage.com. Now here is your first cool prearranged deck trick. Now you’re obviously not going to say that when you perform it for somebody. But first let’s have Mr. Hand cut the deck and complete the deck for me; and if you want to do it one more time you can. It looks like Mr. Hand doesn’t trust me, okay that’s fine. Now let’s talk about playing a poker game with seven players. I’m going to play the part of the dealer, and there will be seven players here, and there’s seven. Now like most dealers with background in magic, this guy here, I’m a cheater, so as I’m dealing the other cards, I noticed that there’s a good card on the bottom of the deck, so I take it and nobody sees me. So I keep dealing the rest of the hands, normally, and since nobody saw me the first time, I think I see another good card on the bottom, and I take it again. Well this time all the other players catch me, and they throw me out of the game. So I finished dealing the other players hands, and then I agree to play with just the next five cards from the deck because we’re playing five card poker. Now all the players starting betting, but nobody wants to take anymore cards because they all like what they have: this guy has a full house aces over eights—that’s going to be a tough hand to beat, this guy has a full house as well. So far, player number one is the winner, this guy has a full house, this guy has a full house, player number five has a full house, player number six, but the dealer beats them all because he got a straight flush. And I’m going to show you how to do that trick in just a moment."