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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 So, although I'm not trying to fool you,
00:06 I am trying to kind of cheat you.
00:08 (laughing)
00:09 So, I'm gonna use, I need something first.
00:12 I'm gonna show you three things.
00:14 First is my business card,
00:17 that you're not gonna look at yet.
00:19 Right?
00:20 So, I'm gonna keep that there for a second.
00:22 The second thing is this.
00:25 So, we're gonna start with you,
00:27 I need you to pick a card.
00:29 So, just touch one on the back,
00:31 just leave it in the deck though.
00:32 This one.
00:33 - Mm-hmm. - Right.
00:34 You seen it? - Mm-hmm.
00:35 - And you can see this, Pete.
00:37 In fact, I'm gonna put it,
00:39 oh no, you know what, I'll leave it inside.
00:41 I'll put it inside now.
00:42 I'm gonna shuffle the cards over there as well.
00:49 So, this is just about control, right?
00:56 So, I'm trying to control that card.
00:58 And because it's one card, it should be fairly easy to do.
01:01 Okay, I think I got it.
01:05 So, the second part is this.
01:08 I'm gonna deal cards just to the mat,
01:12 and whenever you want, you just say stop.
01:14 - Okay. - Right?
01:14 So, I'm just gonna keep dealing card until you say stop.
01:17 And you can go as far as you like.
01:21 - Stop. - Right there.
01:22 Look, watch how fair this is, look.
01:24 Right?
01:25 I didn't do anything funny then, did I?
01:26 - No, no.
01:28 - So, look at the situation, right?
01:29 So, I'll show you three things.
01:31 Here's the first thing, right?
01:33 What card did you pick?
01:34 - King of Diamonds.
01:35 - All right, so that's the illusion of control,
01:38 which is this.
01:39 Felt like you had freedom, but it was my control
01:41 that made you pick this card.
01:43 All right, so you picked it, it was shuffled.
01:45 And then I was dealing cards,
01:46 and you had the freedom to say stop anyway,
01:48 and you stopped on this.
01:49 And to prove that it was predetermined,
01:51 I actually have it picked up on a business card.
01:54 - Oh my God, that's beautiful.
01:55 - So, that's two levels of control,
01:56 but the main thing that I was doing that was difficult,
01:59 this is just to misdirect you from what's really going on,
02:03 which is keeping the entire deck in order.
02:06 (laughing)
02:08 - Wow.
02:10 (laughing)
02:12 That's mental.
02:13 - I am Daniel Madison,
02:15 and this is the explanation for three things.
02:19 As you can see from the demonstration,
02:21 this is a very, very simple idea,
02:24 and a very easy way to demonstrate
02:27 card cheating or gambling skills.
02:30 I call it three things because there are three phases to it.
02:33 The first thing is the reveal,
02:35 in which you manage to reveal
02:37 the freely selected playing card.
02:39 The second thing is,
02:41 although it appeared to be a freely selected playing card,
02:44 it was actually controlled from the beginning.
02:46 And you reveal this,
02:47 I choose to reveal this on the back of a business card.
02:50 You can do that however you want.
02:51 And then the third and final thing
02:53 is to reveal that the deck of cards,
02:55 regardless of all of the shuffles and all of the dealing,
02:58 the deck of cards is in perfect brand new order.
03:02 So those are the three things.
03:04 So let's get straight into the explanation.
03:06 I use the King of Diamonds for a few reasons.
03:09 One, the King of Diamonds is me.
03:11 More importantly, it is the top card of the deck.
03:14 When my deck is in brand new deck order,
03:17 the King of Diamonds is always the top card.
03:19 And I even got the dealers printed in that order,
03:23 specifically so that the King of Diamonds
03:25 would be at the top of the deck
03:26 when the cards come straight out of the box.
03:29 Not just for this trick,
03:30 but kind of that's how I like to stack my deck.
03:33 So the King of Diamonds is the top card.
03:36 And it's in a very good and easy position to force.
03:40 So it's in a very convenient position.
03:42 And it's also in a very nice position
03:44 when you reveal the final order of the deck,
03:46 the deck's in brand new deck order.
03:48 But it's missing the King of Diamonds
03:50 from the top of the deck.
03:51 So when you scoop it all back up,
03:53 the King is back on top where it belongs.
03:55 I usually use, or sometimes use,
03:58 a business card that I got printed
04:00 that has the King of Diamonds
04:01 printed actually on the face of it.
04:03 And I put the business card down before we begin,
04:06 I put it on the table,
04:07 and I tell people it's not a prediction,
04:09 it's more of a statement.
04:10 It's something that's gonna happen.
04:12 However, it is good sometimes
04:16 to use a card from a different deck,
04:17 'cause you can do so many other tricks
04:20 with a playing card from a different deck
04:22 when you introduce it to this deck.
04:23 So if you carry one anyway,
04:26 a spare card from a different deck anyway,
04:27 this is a good use for it.
04:29 So I would take this out
04:31 and put it face down on the table
04:32 and say I'm gonna show you three things.
04:34 Before we do that, I need you to choose a playing card.
04:38 So then I would force the King of Diamonds on them
04:40 from this deck, from the actual deck in play.
04:42 I would force the King of Diamonds,
04:43 and you can choose to do that however you want.
04:46 Possibly the most difficult thing
04:49 to achieve in this routine is the actual dealing
04:54 and the actual keeping of the order
04:57 of the deck of playing cards,
04:58 because this deck of playing cards
05:00 needs to stay in the same order
05:02 throughout the entire routine.
05:04 Now, I'm sure everybody watching knows
05:07 a false shuffle or two, or can do a false shuffle.
05:10 If you can, I suggest looking into
05:12 either the Truffle Shuffle by Derek DelGaudio,
05:16 which is my favourite false shuffle ever.
05:18 You can learn overhand running shuffles from Jason England.
05:21 Jason England's got some great false shuffles.
05:23 You can learn my vice shuffle,
05:24 which is taught in Chaos Theory Download.
05:28 But I'm sure you all know some false shuffles.
05:30 So it's very important that you do quite a few
05:32 false shuffles before you get into anything
05:34 and people see you shuffling the cards.
05:37 You don't make a point of it, you don't wanna overdo it.
05:39 You just want people to see that those cards
05:40 are being mixed up.
05:42 Now I'm gonna give you some tips
05:43 and talk you through exactly how I do it.
05:46 I'm not gonna teach you the false shuffles.
05:48 This is more about the effect and the routine
05:50 than teaching you false shuffles,
05:51 but I will teach you some subtleties
05:54 that'll be really useful and helpful for me
05:56 when I've been performing this and over the years
05:58 that I have performed it, I've built up
06:00 a lot of interesting, different ideas.
06:02 And this is something that you can perform on a table
06:05 or you can do it stood up,
06:06 because this card can be held by anybody.
06:08 I'm gonna explain it as if you're at a table,
06:10 as if you've got a table,
06:11 but you'll be able to figure out for yourself
06:12 how to adapt it to a stand-up situation.
06:16 So the card is placed on the table, nobody sees it.
06:19 The king of diamonds is on top of my deck
06:21 in forcing position.
06:23 You need the deck to be in the same order as this.
06:25 Ace through king, ace through king,
06:27 spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds.
06:28 As long as the king of diamonds is on top,
06:30 I'm sure you can adapt that if you want,
06:32 but I'm gonna teach it the way that I do it every time.
06:35 So after a few false shuffles,
06:37 force that king of diamonds the best way you can.
06:39 And what you're gonna say is,
06:41 before I begin this demonstration,
06:42 before I show you these three things,
06:43 we need a playing card, we need a subject of deception.
06:45 And that playing card will be the subject of deception.
06:48 So once you force that king of diamonds on them,
06:50 you want them to return it,
06:52 and you want to control it to the top.
06:53 There are a few different ways of doing this.
06:55 The most simple way is they put it on top of the deck,
06:58 and then you begin doing some false cuts,
07:01 and then some false shuffles.
07:03 If you wanna get a bit more serious than that,
07:05 a bit more fair than that,
07:07 you can have the card return to the middle
07:08 and do what I call a squeeze shift.
07:12 It's like an alternative to a diagonal palm shift.
07:15 As long as you control that card
07:17 back to the top where it belongs.
07:20 So now, they've had a card selected freely in their mind,
07:24 it's been a freely selected card,
07:25 and nothing's happened yet,
07:26 because you haven't begun the demonstration,
07:28 you just needed a card to use as a subject of deception.
07:31 So now that you've got the card,
07:32 the king of diamonds, it's on top,
07:34 now is when it gets a little bit more difficult
07:36 from a sleight of hand point of view,
07:38 from a control point of view.
07:40 I like to do a few false cuts.
07:41 So I'll do a broken cut,
07:43 simply cut the top packet underneath,
07:45 and then cut that top packet in half.
07:47 One, two, three.
07:50 King of diamonds is back on top,
07:51 I'm sure you can elaborate and work on
07:53 developing that a little bit further.
07:55 I like to try and load the different cuts in there,
07:58 so it's a bunch of broken cuts that all follow each other.
08:01 And it looks like the decks are losing order,
08:03 but it's not, everything stays in control.
08:05 One nice tip that I like when you're doing these broken cuts,
08:07 if I cut the bottom to the top,
08:09 and then cut one more time,
08:11 I can now go one, two, and then on this packet,
08:15 because this packet is going here,
08:17 and this card is going here,
08:19 and then I can do some more bottom deals.
08:21 And then put this back on top,
08:22 and the order does not change.
08:24 The top card is still the king of diamonds,
08:25 and the entire deck is still in order.
08:29 They're just a few subtleties, a few sub tips.
08:32 Now the next part, you don't want it to feel like
08:34 they're picking a playing card.
08:35 So you don't want it to feel like, or pick a card.
08:38 So the way that I do it,
08:39 after a few false shuffles and a few false cuts,
08:41 just like I demonstrated,
08:44 I start to deal playing cards one at a time,
08:46 face down onto the table,
08:48 and I ask the spectator to call stop.
08:50 Every single deal that I'm doing is a bottom deal.
08:55 They're all coming from the bottom of the deck.
08:57 So when you do this, the deck does not lose order,
09:00 because if you're taking from the bottom of the deck,
09:02 the ace goes down, the two goes down,
09:04 the three goes down, the four goes down,
09:06 and they're all going on top of each other,
09:07 so the order never changes.
09:09 So I do a series of consecutive bottom deals.
09:14 And you know, there's a lot of great minds of magic
09:16 that have always argued against consecutive bottoms.
09:20 Why would you ever need to use a consecutive bottom deal?
09:23 I think there's a lot of value in consecutive bottom deals,
09:26 or being able to do consecutive bottom deals.
09:28 For this routine, you don't necessarily have to have
09:32 the best bottom deal, as long as people believe
09:35 that you are dealing cards one at a time to the table.
09:37 If you're not confident in doing bottom deals,
09:39 you can do false cuts, where you cut the packets
09:42 and there's a timing cut, and you ask them a call stop.
09:44 I'm sure you think of something,
09:45 but I highly recommend and suggest
09:48 that you do consecutive bottom deals for this effect.
09:51 If you don't know how to do a bottom deal,
09:53 you can learn it in my book, How to Cheat at Cards.
09:55 You can also learn it in my mechanic DVD.
09:58 I'm not the only person who teaches a bottom deal,
10:00 so you can learn it from Jason.
10:01 England has some amazing work on the bottom deal
10:04 in very precise detail.
10:07 Not just one bottom deal, he teaches many.
10:08 So maybe that's a good source
10:11 if you wanna learn bottom dealing.
10:13 So, you take a deck, and you're gonna deal cards
10:17 one at a time, and you're gonna ask the spectators
10:19 a call stop.
10:20 Now what happens is this.
10:21 I'll deal maybe six or seven bottom deals.
10:23 Let's go for seven.
10:24 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
10:28 Let's say they call stop at this point.
10:31 Now, the top card looks like it stopped a card.
10:35 So I can very, very fairly take that from the top,
10:38 put it to the table next to the prediction.
10:41 Now, I've got messy pocket on the table,
10:45 and I've got the rest of the cards in my hand.
10:47 Now, I can do some more broken cuts
10:48 to put that down on top of the messy pile.
10:51 As long as it goes on top, that deck is still in order.
10:54 Now if you look at this situation
10:55 that I've just created on the table,
10:57 before anything's even happened yet,
10:59 I've ended up with three things.
11:02 The first thing is he selected playing card,
11:05 which was forced.
11:06 The second thing is the prediction.
11:08 And the third thing is the deck that's in order.
11:10 So now it's just about revealing that.
11:12 So some of the scripts that I like to use sometimes
11:15 is the primary objective of what I do
11:18 is to control the outcome of any given situation,
11:20 specifically card games, and that's what I did right now.
11:23 When you picked a card earlier on,
11:25 it felt like freedom, but it was not freedom.
11:28 It was the opposite of that.
11:29 It was complete control.
11:30 I had complete control over you,
11:32 and I made you pick the king of diamonds.
11:34 It's important that I reveal the king of diamonds first.
11:36 I say it first before I turn the card over.
11:38 So I say it's the king of diamonds.
11:40 So then I turn it over and reveal the king of diamonds.
11:43 And they might think, oh well, you know,
11:45 yeah, you saw the card somehow,
11:47 or the cards are marked, which they are,
11:49 but that's another point.
11:51 So then that's the whole point
11:52 of having this prediction card,
11:54 so that you can say my prediction from the beginning
11:55 was also the king of diamonds.
11:57 So at this point, they feel like the effect's done.
12:00 They feel like everything's over, the demonstration's over.
12:03 Now you don't necessarily have to remind them
12:04 of all the shuffling that happened and all the dealing,
12:07 but I like to say this.
12:08 I like to say despite the shuffles
12:09 and despite me dealing the playing cards,
12:12 this is a demonstration of control.
12:14 I controlled you to pick this card, and there's the proof.
12:17 I wasn't just controlling the playing card,
12:20 and I wasn't just controlling you.
12:22 I was also controlling the entire deck of playing cards.
12:26 Spread the deck on the table to show it's in order,
12:28 and then put the king back in place right at the top.
12:31 I am Daniel Madison.
12:32 That was three things.
12:34 (clicks tongue)
12:35 (dramatic music)
12:38 (static)
12:40 [BLANK_AUDIO]