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This video will make you doubt your eyes. Ricky Jay is supposedly the Master of cards. I have no doubt that he completely controls where each individual card is at all times, through repeated shuffles, cuts and what have you. How in the heck...?
nonetheless, tres cool.
I can't begin to imagine how he would pull that off! The damned cards are shuffled!
how many hours practice do you think it took to get that good?
If you doubt, watch one of his specials.
He talks about it very briefly in this clip.
If you have the DVD of Boogie Nights, there's an out-take showing John C. Reilly doing a magic trick in front of Ricky and it's cracking Ricky up with the improv that Reilly is doing.
uh. the cards he laid down on the spread deck at the beginning are just laid on top. Very easy to control where the cards go after that.
lets see you do it
For example, at times he splits the back three times to take the top card that would've been at the top anyway. Just variations of split, bring to middle, bring back to top, etc.
I know he shuffles, but he has the skill to bring all the cards in order through 4 shuffles (just rearranging the suits).