Filed under: Peculiarities | Tags: contribution, Finesse, ideas, mark, mrmagi
I was recently blessed with a private message on a particularly popular magicians board from a particularly clever chap named Mark.
He shared with me some improvements and clean ups for some of the awful tat I’ve posted in the past.
For the sake of credit, I’ll quote him directly…
“Nothing major, just a couple of small things…
I really enjoyed the Ambitious Topper Control, as I’ve been working on a similar control myself for quite a while – seems like you may have messed with it too as I note you mentioned tivo in another post on the move. Anyway, I’ll just briefly go through how i’m doing it:
1. get injog half-way down
2. double to show card on top, turn over and place indifferent angle-jogged
3. do original tivo transpo, turning wrist to show selection outjogged
4. do ambitious riser at an angle while straightening selection
5. square out jogged car and reveal
Just wanted to share it, see if you’ve been messing with the angle-jog
for this also, or just the topper move? I really like the idea of
using the riser as a force – i’ll definitely have to start trying that
out!
Another thing I wanted to send on is my handling of your “An
unnecessary exploration of difficulty in effect form”. I really liked
the effect, but as you mentioned, it’s a bit of a knuckle-buster! Just
wanted to share what I’ve come up with after reading that post:
1. have a card selected and control it to 2nd from bottom.
2. shuffle and cut etc. retaining position of selection
3. get break above the bottom two cards, swing cut and flip over top
half into other hand asking spec if that is there card while tapping
bottom half on it
4. when they say no, drop bottom cards (injogged a little) on top of
reversed half and turn both hands over asking if the bottom card of
deck is the selection (ernest earick method of reversing two cards in
center of deck)
5. when they say no again turn over bottom half and place under top
half – should now have the two original bottom cards reversed in the
center and injogged slightly.
6. tell them its going to jump out of the deck – and do the ambitious
riser which will show the original bottom card above the selection
7. perform jack carpenters impulse change to show the selection.
I think you’ll agree it’s a similar effect with much less work.
Regards,
Mark”
The ambitious riser idea is a knuckle busting bastard, but I like it.
The trick is far more streamlined than I could ever dream up.
I’d like to thank Mark for these great ideas. It all adds to the wonderful bubbling pot that is paste-bored.
If anyone else has some ideas they want to share, throw me a comment! I’m more than happy to put anything in its own special post.
Regards,
Arthur
Consider this.
Your in a position where it is imperative that you know how many cards there are in the deck, but cannot count them openly. Thing is, they really need a shuffle.
Try this.
Hold the cards in position to break for the in-the-hands faro. Riffle 7 or 8 cards from the bottom. (we’ll assume 7 for this walkthrough). OutFaro these cards into the top of the deck, breaking the cards as you square them, at the last card of the weave. This is now 14 cards. Repeat the process. Now its 28. Now if you faro the cards and you were counting a full deck of 52, there would be a bigger packet faroing into a smaller one. Simply count by sight the cards that haven’t been faroed and subtract that from your last double number, it should be a smallish number.
And you have the correct number of cards in the deck in your head. And it looks like you just shuffled.
I haven’t come up with an application for this yet, but… um. There might be one.
Marlo probably published this before as well, but to be fair, he’s published everything ever.
Arthur
Filed under: Shuffle Work | Tags: cheating, gambling, hold'em, idea, poker, protection, texas
OK this idea relies on bad poker players, or call-machines as they are sometimes referred to. The type of players who will play ace-rag far too strongly.
This isn’t a surefire method, but it SHOULD work more often than it fails. If it DOES fail, sometimes you’ll be able to bow out of the hand and watch some fireworks.
Its relatively move-heavy, but not entirely ridiculous.
Its your deal. Fantastic. Cull 3 aces. Or 4. 4 would be great, but its unnecessary work. If you happen to be able to, then this works even better.
Either way, get your 3 aces on top. Keep them there in any way you wish. Now when you deal, the first three players will receive (hopefully) ace-rag. If they get AK, AQ or AJ etc then you aren’t screwed. But you might be. Chortle.
Now you rely on lady luck to give you a relatively playable hand such as 10J, JQ, KQ, etc. Now if you can, you can peek the flop or something, or the top card and deal a second or something which can help you on the luck thing.
At any rate, I’m babbling. The basic idea here is that it is very unlikely that any of the 3 people with ace-rag will hit their ace; impossible if you managed 4 aces instead of 3. Bad players, however, will play their hand and call your raises simply because they hold an ace. But they’re dead to a pair. So get a raise in preflop and you SHOULD get 3 callers.
Now if you hit a pair, it is likely you will have the best hand because none of the suckers will hit their ace. If they hit their rag then they are in more trouble because that ace will keep them fishing with their single crappy pair.
You don’t want much aggressive betting, but you do need to keep putting money in the pot. You’ll get more callers than you deserve and you SHOULD win the hand with a pair or queens or something. The reason why the win will be good is because you can count on getting lots more callers than you usually would, so your small bets get paid off massively. Lots of small amounts add up quite quickly.
It seemed a pretty subtle method for building a stack, and so I thought I’d post it.
Of course, there ARE pitfalls. But as long as you UNDERSTAND that, it shouldn’t be a massive problem. If someone who you know to have an ace is betting out pre-flop, you can assume he’s got a nice kicker attached and you may just want to fold. If an ace does indeed hit the flop, just fold and watch all 3 players defend their pair of aces. If the board pairs, there’s a chance someone has trip rags, so fold. If you don’t hit a pair, folding could be wise. If 2,3,4,5 hits the board, just make sure you have a 6.
The beauty of this is that you don’t put much in the pot for the possibility of a large gain, so folding isn’t too painful. Nor is losing for the suckers.
That way, it won’t bring much heat, if any.
Clever, ey?
Perhaps partially.
Don’t cheat, guys and gals, just educate yourself.
–Arthur–
