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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
I found this cut card in London (actually, I bought several...).
If truth be known the video is very bad (problem of light during the shooting). I can assure you that you can read the bottom card very well. The best is, of course to flash it to the players on your left when it's your turn to deal. While gathering chips or something of the like, you simply tilt the deck a bit towards them. In fact, the only thing to do is moving the forefinger a little . |
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NFS Regular user 186 Posts |
It's definitely possible. It's much easier to see in person than what is shown in the images - It's very difficult to capture reflection like this on the cameras I have.
Viewing the bottom card is pretty straight forward. As you can see it's the 8 of diamonds. The only problem with viewing the top card is that the cut card needs to be stepped to the side quite a bit, given the viewing angle of the dealer. The least I could sidestep the cut card while still viewing the top was over half an inch. It can be covered from the front, but everything is exposed pretty well on the right. The top card is the 3 of diamonds.
"A gambler without a system is as a ship without a compass."
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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
Nice proof, Nich.
Looks pretty difficult to handle casually though, I mean, chances are great to be spotted while doing it? |
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NFS Regular user 186 Posts |
Buckling the cut card to view the bottom was easy and I can get into it naturally having practiced all this for a few hours.
I got into position of viewing the top card the same way I get ready for a push-off bottom, so it was only moderately difficult and in my opinion could fly under the right circumstances. Personally I'd rather do a heel-peek to achieve the same goal. (The reason my fingers are in odd positions in the second picture is I was struggling with capturing the image.) The main point here being that it's possible.
"A gambler without a system is as a ship without a compass."
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AMcD Inner circle stacking for food! 3078 Posts |
Thanks. I'll try that. Thing is I need to find a shining cut card. Is yours "natural" (what brand?) or did you put some work on it (polish...)?
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NFS Regular user 186 Posts |
I got a handful of these cut cards (yellow and red) on eBay probably close to 10 years ago. One side of the cut card is very glossy and reflective, and the other is dull. Sorry, I don't know what the brand is.
Between the two colors, it was much more difficult to view the reflection with the yellow cut card.
"A gambler without a system is as a ship without a compass."
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The Dowser Special user Canada 763 Posts |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Sometimes you get a flash of a card face and while you can't tell what it was you know it was a court card and well maybe you just might be able to tell that much cutting onto the cut card if you have good eyes. I do not have good eyes myself these days. I am thinking the same as The Dowser at the moment more or less.
When I was a tea boy though and this is nothing to do with cut cards, they brouhgt some kids over here who were expert "spotters" and they had good eyes. Or rather they had good eyes that had been trained to do a job from an early age but whatever the case may have been they could see things others couldn't.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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