Tips for Shuffling Cards

Series Summary

If you are an avid card player, you know the importance of shuffling cards. The quickest way to get under your opponent's skin is poor shuffling techniques. Surely, we all remember those wild west shows. While in today's world we can hopefully avoid a gun being pulled on us, the stakes of "cheating" with a bad shuffle can cost you the game and your reputation. If you seek to avoid the name calling and leering gazes, you should brush up on your shuffling technique.

In this free video series, Reg Brittain teaches you everything you need to know about how to shuffle a deck of cards properly. Learn tips for selecting the right deck of cards for shuffling. Also, learn how NOT to shuffle cards. Reg shows you how to do the wash and leaf shuffling techniques, and he shows you how to prove the randomness of your shuffle. So, avoid those trigger happy competitors, and learn how to shuffle cards today!

Video Transcript

"Shuffling is very important to poker maybe I'm stating the obvious. But the goal when you shuffle cards is to get a truly random sampling of cards. You don't want to have all of the sequential values in a suit clumped together the way the new deck comes out of the package. You don't want to damage the cards so we are going to talk about how to do that, how not to damage the cards. We are going to talk about the best way to get a random shuffle that is not flashy and lets face it, you want your card deck to last because poker cards like natural resources aren't cheap. So we are going to discuss a truly random shuffle now that anyone can do it is not flashy I can do it with thumbs like these so probably you can too."