yeah what's going on guys welcome back
just got back from New York and I'm a
bit sleepy but I thought I'd have to
grind this one out because I'm actually
by the time you're watching this I'll be
in Toronto for Toronto International
Film Festival we'll be performing there
which is amazing I'm so looking forward
to that hopefully I can film something
for you guys watch while I'm there but
regardless it's not what we're here
today we're here to learn something and
I'm here to teach it today I'm gonna
teach you one of the very first card
routines that I've ever learned in my
entire life and this can be your first
card routine if you're just getting
started magic and if you're not this
could be something you can add to your
repertoire super easy to do and a lot of
fun in fact in fact when you're
performing and someone asks you oh man
can you teach me something that I can
show my girlfriend or can you teach me a
trick that me show my friends with this
is usually the one that I end up
teaching because it's simple sleight of
hand it's fun to learn fun to do and it
looks really cool by the way if you're
if you're looking to skip through this
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I'm super stoked about this I'm just
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the design to the first playing cards
early if not you're gonna have to wait
alright let's get into the tutorial
let's go folks go get yourself a deck of
cards I'm gonna be using these cards
these are from Dendy they're probably
reserved no longer available but if
you're looking for some cool cards I'll
leave a link below where you can shop
some so I'm going to show you two
effects that you can do with the same
principle let's roll a clip of the first
performance all right I'm gonna show you
a bit of a demonstration on a card
gambling technique known as estimation
now if you can estimate where the cards
may be in the deck you might be able to
shuffle them in your favor so for
instance I'm gonna grab two random cards
here we have these six in the nines of
the black six and the black nine I'm
gonna take those two and leave them at
random spots in the deck probably
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say 21 and 36
that's about 21 and 36 I believe so FET
if that's 21 and 36 that's how you find
the six and the nine so basically this
trick is known as the six and nine trick
that's how I know it I don't know it by
any other name
but it basically is a very simple
principle which is a pseudo duplicates
and what pseudo duplicates are is when
two cards look alike but they are not
the same such as the 6 & 9 6 & 9 now I
know if you don't know this trick
already most of your going wool votes go
to root but actually this fools most
people and because there's a little bit
of psychology involved with this you
don't actually mention you have the 6 of
clubs or the sixes the 6 of spades you
just mention the color because you're
not giving them any pertinent
information their mind isn't remembering
it and therefore they're tricking
themselves so you want to leave the 9 on
top or the 6 whatever and the 6 on the
bottom now important to note that these
have to be opposites suits they can't be
the 6 & 9 of clubs 6 of spades 9 of
clubs other ones are here in here
doesn't matter where they are as long as
they're on top and on the bottom the
other two are going to be placed in the
deck randomly here now you're all set up
for your trick to start off the trick
what you're gonna do is run through find
a 9 find the 6 explaining that this is a
gambling demonstration or whatever you
want to call it and be sure not to flash
this so you want to grab that you want
to turn the deck around and say we're
gonna use the black 6 and the black 9
now I do that while I'm sort of
shuffling the cards like this because I
don't want them to look at them too long
don't go I'm gonna use a black stakes in
the black 9 right because
you're not gonna know what the hell is
going on they're gonna think you're
having a seizure so calm down all right
it's just a card trick we're gonna use
the black six and the black nine you can
leave them on top and one after another
very cleanly put them into the middle
now but before you do we need a
justification of how we're gonna find
these is if we just pull them out of the
deck then what's the point how did we
find them so to justify that I usually
count so I'll go here and I'll be like
it's about 13 and 25 I believe 1325 and
then we do the move right so again that
justifies the sort of reason you're able
to find it justifies a skill and the
effect now we know that the cards are on
top and on the bottom and the cards
you're gonna produce at least that's
where they are super simple here's all
you have to do with your dealer hand you
want to pinch the top and the bottom
just like so so all your fingers here
and you got your thumb here this hand
here is gonna get ready to catch the
rest of the cards and if I do this in
slo-mo here you go I'm gonna let
everything drop except the top and the
bottom card which you hold out so by
doing that by applying a little bit of
pressure it looks like those were
stripped out from the middle of the deck
especially if you show this hand empty
come over here and show these a bit of
misdirection going on so just be bold go
ahead and practice this just go over
your couch if you like but literally
just toss it into this hand and catch it
and the more confident you're gonna get
with that at first you're gonna do this
right it's gonna be that's gonna be what
it's look what it looks like at first
but eventually you'll be over here and
you can catch them super far away which
looks more and more impressive practice
that that is the sixth and ninth trick
let's get on to the second performance
of the next trick thing so China here
for this trick we are going to use two
cards that will help me find your card
these are the two queens the two Red
Queen's I'm gonna hold on to those for
now and I'm gonna have you go ahead and
select any card you like in the entire
deck this one right here
well perfect thank you very much have a
look at that car
and I'm gonna lose that card somewhere
into the deck now I will need those two
queens and they're going to sandwich the
deck just like so as you can see the Red
Queen here on the Red Queen here and
just like that one card is caught
between the two Queens your selection
the four of clubs
so that was a sandwich effect using the
same principle but you end up sandwich
their selection between the two cards
and I'm going to show you guys how that
works so you want to grab two cards that
are gonna use that you're gonna use a
sandwich card you use anything really as
long as they're the same I like using
face cards so let's say the two Queens
you can set these aside for now and so
we'll get back to those in a second so
maybe put them on the table put them in
your pocket have a spectator hold them
and now they're going to select a card
here's the thing you have to be able to
control their selection to the bottom of
the deck many ways to go about a very
simple way so what I used is a straddle
pass I'm not gonna get into that
basically controls any card to the
bottom of the deck really quickly you
can also use something as simple as a
double undercut so you can do it like
this do you have them do this you can
say hold the cards in a bevel like so
run your finger down the side they say
stop they look at a card so let's say
this card here I riffle the rest keeping
a pinkie break right underneath I hold
that break with this thumb so I transfer
from my pinkie break here to my thumb
and as I'm talking I'm going to grab
half of that put it on top and I'm gonna
let the other half fall into my hand and
put it on top oh boy that's why I don't
do the double undercut let's try that
again
they say stop you got it here I'm here
and now I double undercut and the card
is now on the bottom or you can have
them say stop in a dribble like so you
can have them look at this card
shucks forward I taught this before
where their selection is right here
basically but it's it's it's sort of in
jogged because what you're doing is this
you're dribbling to the back and that
selection this in jog so your thumbs
gonna come in there and hold that break
and same thing you're gonna grab half
bring it to the top and grab the other
half bring it to the top as you're just
casually talking now the card is on the
bottom once you're in this position
where you control the card to the bottom
of the deck here's what you're gonna
have to do you're gonna take the two
Queens and you're gonna place one on top
and one on bottom you can either do it
with your right hand or your left hand
whatever you're more comfortable with
but what you're gonna do is by showing
them the bottom card so you say I have
the two Queens that are sandwiched into
that you're going to just let that one
protrude a little bit because here's
what's gonna happen
their card is here but your index is
contacting that card as well as this one
so the friction let's do it slow of the
cards going this way will automatically
sandwich their selection between those
two so when done quickly it's the same
principle you jog it a little bit on the
edge of the card I'm holding this here
so as I throw the rest of the cards into
my right hand one card will be sandwich
and it'll be their selection and that's
it yeah all right guys that was it
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