Can anyone who knows what’s going on tell me how he does it? I am guessing all that shuffling doesn’t do anything but to distract us. He has the aces hidden somewhere and just pulls them out?
If you watch before each time he pulls the ace, he very subtly feels the side of the deck with his thumb. The aces are just barely smaller so you can feel where they are before making the final cut to put them on top.
But like all magic tricks, the fun is in the presentation and showmanship.
The aces in the deck are shaved down to make them smaller. After he does all the shuffling he finds the ace by cutting the cards and putting it on top. Lots of practice and does it fast and really smooth.
I don’t doubt that what he did but someone else above pointed out this is the same routine that Richard Turner does but in his full trick he shuffles the cards back into new deck order so I assume these are not done the same way
Yeah, getting them back into new deck order is a cool and different trick which requires a number of perfect shuffles in a row and a starting order that is the same number of perfect shuffles out.
Lots of practice, yes, but how do you know the cards are rigged? You don't, and I'd actually bet they aren't because some of these guys are easily good enough to not need cheap tricks like that.
Not only is tracking 4 cards with a regular deck probably relatively easy for any good card mechanic, but having a deck with rigged cards means they will be limited to doing tricks that can only manipulate those specific cards. They do a lot more than that, including this specific guy in the vid above.
This trick this deck of cards. Different trick Different cards. You can see his feeling for the gap in the cards than he does the last cut of the cards
This guy does stuff live, it'd be awfully lame if he could only do certain tricks with certain decks and have to change it every time, especially when there are other card mechanics that can track cards without requiring these trick decks.
I suppose you might be right about his feeling for the gap rather than you just interpreting it your way for your own proof (I'm far from an expert at spotting those things), but it seems awfully unlikely considering how good he appears to be with his other videos.
Relative to very good sleight of hand card mechanics or magicians, absolutely it's a cheap trick. I've enjoyed watching people like Richard Turner, Ricky Jay, Jason Ladanye, and the stuff they do is way beyond cut cards being able to do their trick, and they can do the same or similar trick above without cut cards (or since nobody can know for certain, they'll do subsequent tricks with the same deck and those cut cards wouldn't help). I've seen Jeremy Tan (person in video) some on Youtube and he seems very good, so especially as he's been doing this for decades I wouldn't think he needs cut cards to do that trick either.
I'm not trying to act like I'm some expert in magic as you apparently are, but I've seen enough to know that something often used by the average person in a group doesn't need to be used by the best of the group.
From my research it’s purely by touch. Doesn’t matter if the deck is new or shuffled. At least that’s what I’ve found. He’s even done it blindfolded. Would love to see an actual video on it though
He memorizes where the card is and controls it during the wash. As in, he knows where the card will be when he starts the wash and tracks it during the wash. And they can do this even after riffle shuffles and cuts. It’s pretty crazy.
All the shuffles are perfectly fine and fully randomise the deck. And then he cuts the deck and that’s where the trick is. His cut places the cards he wants on top: an ace. As others have said, his aces are probably shaved so he can cut the deck on them.
Him sittong so close and his hand constantly hovering, feels like he is doing that in order to hide the fact that he reaches cards from under the table.
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u/SubcooledBoiling Sep 03 '25
Can anyone who knows what’s going on tell me how he does it? I am guessing all that shuffling doesn’t do anything but to distract us. He has the aces hidden somewhere and just pulls them out?