The One Handed Cut for Shuffling Cards

Video Transcript

"I'm Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com and today we are going to discuss shuffles and cuts. This is a one handed cut that you want to use if you are just wanting to look a little fancy. It cuts the deck instead of using two hands with all the ones that we have described you could just use one and it will looks like this. Just hold the deck and give the deck a cut and fast normal pace it looks like that. To do it you want the middle finger and ring finger to be on the bottom. The thumb to be on the top. The pinkie and first finger on opposite ends. So you kind of have this in caged type of thing. So with enough pressure from the first finger and pinkie you could actually let go of the deck and hold it in all angle and it wouldn't fall. You want your middle finger and ring finger to be there as a support and your thumb on top. You want to be able to get rid of your first finger and still be able to hold like this. So its nice to hold it you don't need to hold it a death grip but make sure you have a good grip on it. The pinkie needs to stay here the entire time and I will show you why that is important. But what you are going to do with the thumb you are going to release some pressure from the bottom of the pack and let it drop into the hand. Like so and as long as your pinkie is there you could have pretty good range of motion as long as you don't tilt it this way because the cards would fall out. You could just keep it at this angle. Your first finger is going to come across and put pressure on this portion of the pack and it is going to push backwards as your thumb releases pressure with this packet. It is going to continue to push up. Your pinkie stays here the entire time as well as your middle finger and ring finger stay there. First finger pushes it until it clears. Once it clears your first finger goes back to normal and the cards fall on themselves. So once again pinkie in the back stays there the entire time. Your middle finger and ring finger stay exactly where they are at. Your thumb and first finger do all the work. You drop a little portion with your thumb. First finger pushes back as your thumb releases the top packet. Once they clear each other your first finger could return to its normal position as it falls. So in fast motion it would look like this and it should almost look like one continues action as long as you get it down fast enough. They almost not think what they saw was true and as long as you have the grip down and the foundation of your fingers you could actually stop mid way like so and hold there, not that you would put this a good check point to make sure that you are learning it properly and then just go ahead and complete the cut. That is called the Charlie A cut it is French or you could just call it a one handed cut if you are English. "