Overview of Ways to Shuffle Cards

Series Summary

Magic is an art of illusion, a practice in deception, a training in trickery. People have been entertaining, deceiving, or swindling crowds throughout history with feats of prestidigitation, decorated with salesmanship, dramatic effect, confidence, and charisma.

It is generally accepted today that there is nothing supernatural about magic; in essence, a magician is skillfully conjuring the appearance of true magic through sleight of hand, misdirection, and cunning. This is why many magicians call themselves "illusionists," embracing the idea that the audience enjoys the trick because they do not know how such an amazing feat could have been performed by natural means. In actuality, magic takes a great deal of training and hard work; many performers have been practicing since early childhood.

Whether you are a budding magician, or just a card game enthusiast looking to bone up on his skills, impress your friends and learn some of the many ways to cut and shuffle playing cards. Our expert magician will demonstrate each cut and shuffle, with step-by-step instructions and tips for properly performing them. Tricks include the Hindu shuffle, the one-handed cut, the pivot cut, and the poker shuffle.

Video Transcript

"I'm Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com and today we are going to discuss shuffles and cuts. Most everyone could shuffle cards or cut cards. Most of the time if your are playing poker with your friends you would see somebody attempt to shuffle cards something it would look like this. Where they cut half of the deck and hold awkward and hold it close to their body and they use there body as leverage to turn the cards around and they come down and do one of these things on the table like that and they just push it together. Usually the cards sit there on the table completely warped just looking funny and they give it a cut they would actually use a table cut. This is fine everything about that is fine there are actual ways to get into shuffles and out of shuffles. Ways to get into cut that are proper techniques for being a magicians. You want to get out of those habits they are really hard to break and we will discuss most of those things today. "