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00:48 - Welcome to Unshuffling the Pharaoh Shuffle.
00:50 I'm Paul Gertner.
00:52 The purpose of this DVD is twofold.
00:54 First, I wanna convince you
00:56 that learning to perform the Pharaoh Shuffle
00:58 is within the range of anyone who really wants to learn it.
01:01 Yes, it will take time and quite a bit of practice,
01:04 but I can guarantee that performing a perfect Pharaoh Shuffle
01:07 is not beyond the skill level of the average magician.
01:11 Now, I wouldn't say that about other card
01:13 and coin techniques where I do feel
01:15 that there is a natural ability at play,
01:17 but the Pharaoh Shuffle is mainly about knowing
01:21 and understanding the proper technique.
01:24 And that is the first thing you're gonna learn on this DVD.
01:27 I can't tell you how many times I've watched magicians
01:30 struggling with the Pharaoh Shuffle,
01:32 and the main problem is they've spent many hours
01:35 practicing it, but they were practicing it all wrong.
01:39 I calculate I've done more than half a million
01:42 perfect Pharaoh Shuffles since I learned to do it in 1970.
01:46 That translates into having Pharaoh Shuffled
01:47 over 26 million individual cards.
01:51 With that much practice, I've learned a few shortcuts,
01:54 and I'm going to teach you what I've learned
01:55 about on this DVD.
01:58 Once I have you performing eight perfect Pharaoh Shuffles
02:01 in 60 seconds or less, I'm going to teach you
02:03 how to perform my effect Unshuffled,
02:06 my all-time favorite magic trick to do.
02:09 If I only have a chance to do just one trick,
02:12 and one trick only for a spectator,
02:14 Unshuffled is the one I always choose.
02:16 It packs small, and for a close-up trick,
02:18 oh, it plays big.
02:20 The additional feature of it is that it's customizable
02:24 for many different situations.
02:26 I think it's safe to say I've made more money
02:29 with this one-card trick in the way of closing deals
02:31 and impressing clients than any other trick I do.
02:35 And to those magicians who already do Unshuffled,
02:39 not only do you now have a quality hand-lettered
02:42 Unshuffled deck, but I'm going to show you
02:44 some fine points that will have those Pharaoh Shuffles
02:47 coming together even faster.
02:49 Okay, so I've just made a lot of promises.
02:53 Now it's time for me to put my money where my mouth is.
02:55 Let's start Unshuffling the Pharaoh Shuffle.
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03:55 Well, now we're ready to begin Unshuffled.
04:07 I'll perform it head-on, one-on-one,
04:08 so you can see how I perform it in front of an audience,
04:11 and then I'll go into the explanation detail by detail.
04:14 Well, I'd like to show you something
04:16 with a deck of marked cards.
04:18 Now you can see they're marked cards because,
04:21 well, they say marked cards.
04:23 But these cards are marked in a very unique way.
04:26 You know, John, if I gave you this card
04:28 and I said look for the marks,
04:29 you would examine the back pattern
04:31 and see if you could find any kind of distinguishing mark
04:33 that would tell me that's an Ace of Hearts,
04:35 but you won't see anything
04:37 because I mark them on the edge.
04:39 These are edge-marked cards.
04:41 I mark them with an invisible or a translucent ink,
04:44 and I have special lenses in my glasses,
04:46 and I can see the marks, but no one else can.
04:49 You know, when I tell people that, though,
04:51 no one really believes me.
04:52 So to demonstrate, I mark the balance of the cards
04:56 with black ink so that you can see the marks on the edge,
04:59 even if you don't have special lenses in your glasses.
05:02 Now, if you take a close look at the cards,
05:04 you can see they're, well, they're all mixed up.
05:06 Red and black, hearts, clubs, diamonds, and spades.
05:10 And I'm going to have one card selected from the deck.
05:14 So as I drop the cards,
05:15 would you do me a favor and just say stop?
05:17 Right there?
05:20 Now, look at the card, remember the name of that card.
05:23 I'm going to place your card in the deck,
05:25 and I'm going to lose it in the deck
05:26 with what I call an unshuffle.
05:30 It's just the opposite of shuffling cards.
05:33 You see, to perform an unshuffle,
05:34 I divide the deck exactly in half.
05:36 Let me check.
05:37 Perfect.
05:39 26 and 26.
05:41 I can tell by the weight.
05:43 And then I give the cards a perfect unshuffle
05:48 with every card interwoven between every other card.
05:52 And if I've shuffled the cards perfectly,
05:56 you can see the deck now starts to read unshuffled
06:00 four times on the side of the deck.
06:02 Now, that means these cards have been unshuffled
06:04 in the four different categories,
06:05 hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds.
06:08 But if I give the cards another perfect unshuffle,
06:13 26, 26, perfect.
06:17 I really can tell by the weight.
06:19 And if I unshuffle the cards,
06:21 you see the cards are being unshuffled now
06:24 into two categories.
06:27 All the red cards are in one group,
06:29 and all the black cards are in the other.
06:31 Now, I'll give the cards one final unshuffle.
06:36 And at, oh, wait.
06:40 Okay, you know what?
06:41 I made a little mistake.
06:43 This is a little heavier than this.
06:46 John, you can probably see from the angle,
06:48 how many off do you think I am?
06:49 Just two?
06:51 You're right.
06:52 Yeah, actually, it's a two of hearts.
06:54 It kind of cuts you a break on that one.
06:56 But if I give the cards one final unshuffle,
07:00 as you can see, this deck of cards is completely unshuffled.
07:05 And if it says unshuffled,
07:10 I have to show you that they are in fact unshuffled.
07:14 If you take a look, ace through king,
07:16 hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds,
07:19 every card is now in perfect, brand new deck order.
07:24 Oh, there is one minor detail.
07:26 In the beginning, John, you selected a card.
07:28 It's somewhere here in the unshuffled deck.
07:31 I won't look for your card face up,
07:33 because they're all sequential.
07:34 It wouldn't impress you.
07:35 I could find it very quickly.
07:37 Instead, I'll try to find your card face down.
07:40 What was the name of your card?
07:42 Eight of hearts?
07:45 That's about 17 cards down from the top of the deck.
07:47 Watch closely.
07:48 If I give the cards one more unshuffle, take a look.
07:51 Because there it is.
07:55 If I rearrange the cards, your eight of hearts.
07:59 You see, I get you the answers you need every single time.
08:03 Thank you.
08:04 Okay, now we're ready to go into the explanation.
08:09 First, I think a little history is in order.
08:11 People have often asked,
08:13 where did the idea for this trick originate?
08:15 As I explained in detail when I originally published it
08:18 in both my lecture notes in 1976
08:20 and in Harry Lorraine's "Best of Friends,"
08:23 I saw the original concept in "Genie" magazine,
08:26 in Charlie Miller's "Magic Hannah" column,
08:28 November 1973 issue.
08:31 In that column, a gentleman named Dr. Ewer
08:34 detailed the concept of writing words
08:36 on the side of a deck of cards
08:37 and having them reappear four, then two,
08:41 and then one time in the process
08:43 of doing perfect barrow shuffles.
08:45 There have been suggestions that this concept,
08:47 writing on the side of a deck,
08:49 was also used in wartime for passing codes.
08:52 If you knew the proper order to place the deck in,
08:54 then the code or the words on the side of the deck
08:57 would become visible.
08:59 Well, a few issues later,
09:00 Bob Wicks wrote in "Genie" magazine
09:03 and in Charlie Miller's column,
09:04 he suggested a number of ideas
09:07 for things to write on the side of the deck
09:09 that could be used with this interesting principle.
09:12 The two that appealed to me most
09:14 were the ideas of drawing small little monsters
09:16 from the then popular video game "Space Invaders"
09:19 on the side of the deck,
09:21 and his other idea of writing unshuffled
09:24 on the side of the deck,
09:25 and then after a series of barrows,
09:26 showing the cards were indeed unshuffled
09:28 in brand new decor.
09:30 I quickly latched onto Bob's clever idea
09:33 and developed it into a trick,
09:35 adding the concept of having a card selected
09:37 and at the end, having the word unshuffled
09:39 morph into the name of the selected card.
09:42 In an early version,
09:43 I would also spell down to the selected card
09:45 before I had its name appear on the side of the deck,
09:48 but it seemed to be a bit of overkill.
09:51 The presentational concept of having the writing four times,
09:54 then two times, relate to four suits and two colors,
09:58 red and black,
09:59 it came about as the routine was being developed.
10:02 Being new in the trade show magic field,
10:05 I quickly saw the value of having a brand
10:07 or company name magically appear on the side of the deck
10:10 instead of the word unshuffled,
10:12 and early on,
10:14 this became one of my trademark trade show routines.
10:18 I currently have a collection
10:19 of about a thousand customized unshuffled decks
10:21 of playing cards that feature everything
10:23 from the names of companies and products
10:26 to the names of wedding couples
10:27 or the bar mitzvah celebrant
10:29 that I've used with this trick over the past 34 years.
10:33 So when I tell you it's my favorite trick,
10:35 you can see that I really do mean that.
10:37 But right now, it's time to unshuffle the Faro shuffle.
10:42 So to perform unshuffle,
10:46 you're going to use a deck of playing cards
10:49 that look just like this.
10:51 In fact, it's the exact same pack that came with this DVD.
10:54 Now, I usually mark this box up,
10:57 it says marked cards and use the gag
10:59 as I take them out at the very beginning of the trick,
11:02 but we're going to have to first prepare to do the trick,
11:04 and that is to do five Faro shuffles to set the deck up.
11:08 Now, the deck, it consists of a deck
11:11 that says unshuffled on one side,
11:13 and I hate to disappoint you,
11:15 but it says eight of hearts on the other.
11:18 Okay, that's the basic idea,
11:19 and that's the morphing of the word unshuffled
11:22 into eight of hearts.
11:23 Not real magic, but pretty good magic.
11:26 And the rest of the deck is in perfect order,
11:29 or in what we call new deck order.
11:30 You'll notice there's ace through king of spades,
11:33 ace through king of diamonds,
11:34 but then it reverses and starts with the king of clubs
11:38 to the ace of clubs,
11:39 and the king of hearts to the ace of hearts.
11:41 Now, there's one final additional change,
11:44 and that is if you hold the deck of unshuffled
11:47 just like this and run your thumb up the back,
11:49 you'll feel a little break on one of the cards.
11:52 It just so happens to be on the eight of hearts right here.
11:56 And what you do is you take,
11:57 and you don't have to do this,
11:59 it's already done on your cards,
12:00 is the corner of the eight of hearts has been shorted
12:03 just with a nail clipper,
12:04 so that when you run your finger up the back of the cards,
12:07 it will break and you can easily find that eight of hearts,
12:10 so you can very quickly do a riffle force
12:12 or a dribble force of that card.
12:14 But we'll get into that in a moment.
12:16 Let's try to set up the deck first.
12:18 First, setting up the deck,
12:20 putting the cards in the pharaoh shuffle position
12:23 that you've learned,
12:24 you're going to give the cards five perfect out pharaohs,
12:28 which means the ace of hearts
12:30 is going to always stay on top.
12:33 So the first time we broke at the king of clubs,
12:37 the second time we're breaking at the ace of diamonds.
12:42 The next time we are breaking at the seven of clubs.
12:46 The next time we break at the four of diamonds.
12:53 And one more and we're all set,
12:57 and we break at the nine of spades.
13:00 And we're now ready to put the cards in the box and begin.
13:07 If you were to look very carefully at the cards right there,
13:10 you can actually see that they now say unshuffled
13:13 eight times on the side of the deck.
13:16 It's very hard to see, but it's there.
13:18 The cards go in the box in this manner
13:21 so that when I slide them out,
13:23 unshuffled is facing the audience.
13:24 And now we're ready to begin.
13:27 You take the cards out of the box,
13:30 show the words unshuffled,
13:31 use any gag you'd like about marked cards,
13:34 bring them out.
13:35 I usually bring one card out first,
13:39 which is the top card, the ace of hearts.
13:41 The reason I do that is the ace of hearts
13:43 and the ace of spades have no marks on them at all.
13:47 We do that intentionally so that
13:49 by looking to the top of the card,
13:51 you can't tell there's anything written
13:53 on the back cards back here
13:54 because the ace covers that fact.
13:57 And I bring it out initially and hand it to somebody
14:01 and ask them to look for the marks.
14:02 And they usually look at the back design or the pattern.
14:05 And then I tell them I marked them on the edge.
14:08 Can I mark it with translucent or invisible ink?
14:10 Special lenses in my glasses.
14:12 I get a little bit of a laugh on that.
14:13 And then I say, no, really, I'll prove it.
14:15 And I bring the rest of the cards out
14:17 and show that in fact they are all marked.
14:19 Notice the ace comes on top
14:21 so that it covers, again, the second card down.
14:25 And I hold the cards like this
14:26 and show the marks on the cards.
14:30 If I'm working with a large group around me,
14:32 you'll notice that you can actually
14:33 hold the cards like this.
14:35 And it's almost like an edge grip
14:36 when you're doing a coin trick.
14:38 Okay?
14:39 The angle of the thumb and the back of the hand
14:43 covers the marks on the back
14:46 so that somebody back here can never see
14:48 that I have marks on both sides of the card.
14:50 The only thing we ever really want them to know about
14:52 are the marks up here.
14:53 We don't really want them to think
14:54 there's an image back there at all.
14:56 Okay?
14:57 Now, I turn the cards end for end.
14:59 And again, since there's no marks on the ace,
15:01 everything looks clean.
15:03 And I can spread the cards on the table,
15:04 showing them to be all mixed up.
15:07 You wanna point that out.
15:08 You can also, alternatively, just turn the cards
15:12 end for end and spread them in your hand like this.
15:16 Or you can hold them like this,
15:19 turning them end for end this way
15:21 so that the eight of hearts image back here
15:23 stays towards you and fan them out
15:26 toward the audience in this direction.
15:28 Okay?
15:29 If I'm working without a table, which I often am.
15:32 And then I square up the cards,
15:34 take them in my hand and turn over.
15:36 And again, protecting this back side of the deck
15:39 at all times.
15:41 I then tell them I'd like them to select a card
15:44 and I ripple my thumb up.
15:46 And as I ripple my thumb up the back of the deck,
15:49 I hit the break.
15:52 Once I hit the break, it automatically clicks down.
15:55 I can feel it.
15:56 And I know that I'm going to be able to force the top card.
15:59 This is the eight of hearts.
16:01 So I click up, hit the break.
16:04 You catch your break.
16:05 I ask someone to just say stop.
16:08 And as I ripple the cards, they say stop.
16:10 And I do a dribble force, stop,
16:13 dropping all the cards at the break.
16:15 I could also do a ripple force and say, just say stop
16:18 and just pick up all the cards at the break
16:20 and put these down and sometimes then show it like this.
16:24 But the choice is really up to you.
16:26 I prefer the just say stop, the dribble.
16:29 I then push it over and I take it in my hand
16:31 so I can do everything with one hand.
16:33 Notice where my fingers are.
16:35 My fingers are protecting that other side of the eight
16:37 so they can't see any marked images on the other side
16:40 in case there's a little bit of bleed,
16:42 which there usually is.
16:43 While I'm showing this around,
16:45 I'm keeping the break right here.
16:47 So as I say stop, dribble, I push this over.
16:53 At the same time, as I slide this eight out
16:57 to show it around, I keep my little finger
17:00 in the break right there on the cards.
17:01 That's important.
17:03 I can then take the eight and place it back into the deck,
17:07 square it up, and I can even table the deck if I want.
17:11 Everything is under control.
17:13 Now we're going to perform the shuffles.
17:17 Now for the shuffling sequence,
17:20 I'm going to explain that I'll perform
17:23 what we call an unshuffle.
17:24 And you're holding the deck in pharaoh position.
17:27 You perform the first perfect pharaoh, dividing the deck.
17:32 If you'd like, you can play with the idea
17:34 of weighing the cards.
17:35 I often do that where I sort of balance them out.
17:38 I say, oh wait, yes, perfect, 26 and 26.
17:41 Because if they see you shuffling the cards perfectly,
17:44 they buy into the fact that you can actually weigh them
17:46 at the same time.
17:47 And again, the first shuffle we're breaking
17:49 at the five of spades.
17:51 So you have the cards, you break the deck
17:54 at the five of spades.
17:55 Five of hearts comes first, and then the five of spades.
17:58 So all you have to do for this trick is remember,
18:00 five of spades, three of spades, two of spades.
18:02 Those are your three cards during the performance.
18:06 And then you do five pharaohs in between to reset.
18:08 But five of spades, three of spades, two of spades.
18:11 First one's five of spades.
18:13 I perform the pharaoh.
18:16 When you're doing it, you want to make sure
18:19 you buckle the cards.
18:21 You can place your finger up there to hold it for a second,
18:23 and then let them bridge down.
18:27 You'll notice I'm not squaring them up right away.
18:29 I'm letting them come down so that they're altered.
18:32 So that I can hold them very still,
18:34 and I then take and bring them in.
18:38 And I often bring them in so that they see
18:40 the first word appear at the top.
18:44 So I square them up from the top down to the bottom.
18:48 So they see the word unshuffled,
18:50 and then they see the other three unshuffled.
18:53 And they can see it says unshuffled four times
18:55 on the side of the deck, which means the cards
18:56 have been unshuffled into four categories.
18:58 Hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds.
19:00 The four suits, that makes sense.
19:02 Okay, next, and again, if I'm with a crowd,
19:05 I can turn it around.
19:07 If you're ever doing this with camera,
19:09 or for video on like a TV spot,
19:13 or for a video commercial, you want to keep,
19:16 don't move out of frame is what I'm saying.
19:20 You want to turn it so people can see it,
19:22 but yet the camera can stay in focus.
19:24 And you don't want to come forward
19:25 because the camera has focused in on those words.
19:28 So you want to keep it within the plane
19:30 that the camera is shooting on,
19:31 so the focus stays as sharp and as clear as possible.
19:35 But again, I can protect all around if I need to,
19:38 and show it all around over here.
19:41 I then come in and I do another pharaoh.
19:43 Now, if I have audience back here,
19:45 I'm going to do the pharaohs more like this,
19:48 so that this side is being toward the floor.
19:51 If I don't have audience back here,
19:53 I may do the pharaohs higher,
19:55 so that the whole audience can see and appreciate
19:59 as the cards come together just like that.
20:03 And again, you let them come together,
20:06 but you do not square them up until the last moment,
20:11 and then they see the words magically appear unshuffled.
20:16 And it now says unshuffled two times.
20:18 And that time I split it at the three of spades, okay?
20:22 Finally, we give the cards one more unshuffle,
20:25 the two of spades is our split card.
20:28 However, I sometimes throw this little bit of business in.
20:31 I sometimes pick up at the two of hearts,
20:34 and I split the cards and I sense the weight,
20:37 and then I go, oh wait, wait a minute.
20:40 I'm not looking, I'm not looking,
20:42 but this half is a little heavier than this half.
20:45 John, you're a little close, you have a good angle.
20:46 How many off do you think I am?
20:48 Usually they'll say one or two.
20:50 If they say one, I'll say you were right on,
20:53 and I toss one card across.
20:55 If they say two, I say you're right, the two of hearts.
21:00 I kind of cut you a break on that one.
21:02 If they say more, I just say no,
21:04 I'm never more than one or two off.
21:06 There it is, and I adjust it.
21:08 But anyway, it just adds another little element to it
21:10 from a performance standpoint,
21:11 if you like to play with that.
21:13 And I then square up the cards.
21:14 Now after I do this, though,
21:16 you'll notice that I do have to square these cards up
21:19 a little bit, 'cause I don't wanna bring them together again
21:21 so I use the top of the deck to square it.
21:24 I come down, and now I get into my faro position,
21:29 and I butt the edges to get them into the right angle,
21:32 and now I'm ready to perform.
21:35 And then we bring it together, one final unshuffle,
21:40 and at this point, it's very important that you, again,
21:43 don't push in too much, let them fall together,
21:47 but again, let it be jumbled so that you square it up
21:51 at the last moment, and they see the magic happens,
21:54 just like that.
21:55 It's as magical of an effect you can get
21:57 with a deck of cards.
21:59 And again, they see the words unshuffled,
22:01 and then you immediately point out, not only that,
22:03 but if it says unshuffled, I have to prove it.
22:06 Now, we can prove it a few different ways.
22:09 If I'm working on a table, I will turn them end for end,
22:12 and I'll spread them on the table,
22:15 showing they're all unshuffled.
22:17 On the other hand, if I'm not working on a table,
22:21 I will turn it end for end, just like this.
22:24 Again, I'm protecting the eight of hearts, it's toward me,
22:27 and I then start to fan them out, just like this.
22:32 And I might even say, and they've been unshuffled,
22:35 look, the ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
22:38 eight, nine, 10, jack, queen, king of hearts,
22:41 clubs, diamonds, spades, every card in perfect order,
22:45 and build on that at the end.
22:47 That is, if I'm spreading them out in my hands, like that.
22:51 And finally, we've shown the cards
22:55 to be all in perfect order.
22:57 I square them up from right to left.
23:01 Again, notice I'm keeping the word unshuffled
23:03 toward the audience, hiding this.
23:06 And then I say, but there's one minor detail.
23:09 In the beginning, you selected a card.
23:10 It's somewhere here in the unshuffled deck,
23:13 and I call attention to what the word on the deck is.
23:16 I fan out the cards.
23:18 I turn them face up, okay?
23:21 And now, I spread them out a little bit,
23:24 but notice what I'm doing.
23:24 I'm displacing the cards, okay?
23:27 I'm just displacing them a little bit,
23:28 moving some out and some in, so that I can say,
23:31 but I won't look for them face up.
23:32 That's too easy.
23:33 I'll find your card, and I square up the deck
23:36 from the back to the front, face down.
23:39 And if you followed along with me,
23:41 what you've just done is you've shifted
23:43 the eight of hearts from back here to out here,
23:46 so that whenever I square them up right now,
23:48 if I did, it would say eight of hearts, you see?
23:53 But it doesn't, because they can't see
23:55 what it says just yet.
23:56 And then I do square them up, but as I square them up,
23:59 I hide it with my thumb.
24:01 And I say, but you selected a card.
24:03 What was the name of your card?
24:05 And then they tell me for the first time, eight of hearts,
24:07 and I say, eight of hearts.
24:09 It's about 17 cards down from the top.
24:10 Let me see if I can do this.
24:12 If I give the cards one more unshuffle,
24:14 and here, all I do is spring the cards.
24:17 I didn't shuffle them, didn't do anything,
24:18 but I spring the cards.
24:20 As far as the lay audience is concerned,
24:21 I just shuffled them again.
24:23 They hear the sound.
24:24 To them, that's a shuffle.
24:25 And I spring the cards, which displaces them,
24:29 so they can't tell what's written there.
24:31 And now I call their attention to the unshuffled.
24:33 I say, but you watch closely.
24:35 If I shifted the right 28 cards, I often mention,
24:40 you know, if I spring the cards, and if I give the cards,
24:42 if I reposition, or if I reshift 22 cards,
24:47 and if I hit the right 22 cards, I think we'll hit it.
24:51 There it is, your eight of hearts.
24:54 And as far as they're concerned,
24:55 I shuffle the cards one more time.
24:57 This used to say unshuffled.
24:58 It now says eight of hearts, and that's the end of the trick.
25:03 And that, you have my favorite card trick, unshuffled.
25:06 So go back, look at it, go piece by piece through the trick.
25:10 You'll like it, you'll learn it,
25:12 and I guarantee you'll use it.
25:14 I know there are many, many magicians out there
25:16 already doing this.
25:17 I've seen it in many different countries,
25:18 all over the world, and on YouTube videos.
25:21 And I hope you enjoy learning unshuffled.
25:24 Now, before you open the deck of cards,
25:30 I'd like to suggest that you keep this custom,
25:33 hand-lettered, unshuffled deck that came with the trick
25:36 in the box, until you learn
25:37 how to do a perfect pair of shuffle.
25:40 You should use another deck of cards
25:42 to practice the shuffle with,
25:44 because you will destroy a number of decks
25:47 in the process of learning to do a Faro shuffle.
25:51 You will wanna save the custom deck,
25:53 and use it only once you have mastered the technique.
25:57 During the learning process, you will flatten
25:59 or dog-ear the edges of some of the cards,
26:02 which will make it impossible to perform a perfect Faro.
26:04 And the only thing you can do then
26:06 is throw the deck out and start with a new one.
26:09 I'd hate to see you ruin your custom deck
26:11 before you've had the chance to see
26:12 the impact this trick has on an audience.
26:15 Open up a fresh deck of playing cards, and let's begin.
26:18 Remember, you're not working
26:19 with your custom unshuffled deck at this point.
26:21 Keep it in the box until you've mastered the Faro shuffle.
26:24 Okay, well, we're ready to start learning the Faro shuffle.
26:28 Now, just so that you can see the cards are being shuffled,
26:32 I'm going to use the unshuffled deck, as I mentioned.
26:35 Yeah, I'd suggest you just grab a brand new deck of cards.
26:37 You're going to remove the two jokers, the advertising cards,
26:40 and you want them in brand new deck order, just like this.
26:45 Okay, so it starts with the ace of hearts, goes to the king.
26:48 Then there's the ace of clubs, to the king of clubs.
26:52 King of diamonds goes to ace of diamonds,
26:54 and king of spades to ace of spades.
26:58 If your deck is not in that order, take a moment,
27:01 set it up that way so that you can follow me
27:03 with the shuffles, okay?
27:06 Now, we'll talk a little bit
27:07 about different brands of cards.
27:09 I use bicycle playing cards for this all the time.
27:12 They seem to be very good, decent quality.
27:15 The edges are cut fairly well, and they work well.
27:17 Every once in a while, in fact, there's a time
27:19 a number of years ago where bicycle playing cards
27:21 were a little bit more of a rough cut on the edges,
27:24 and I had some problems with that
27:25 when trying to Faro shuffle.
27:26 But bicycles, B, I've used.
27:30 I've used Aristocrat, I've used Tally Ho,
27:33 and those are the brands that I'm most familiar with.
27:35 But again, bicycles seem to be working well.
27:37 I like the quality of them, and they're recognizable
27:40 by the general public.
27:42 So, the edges of the deck are important, okay?
27:46 If you open up a deck of cards,
27:48 and you feel it is very rough on the edges,
27:52 basically don't even plan to try
27:53 to do a Faro shuffle with it.
27:55 Just simply use that deck of cards
27:57 for another trick or another purpose.
27:59 But again, find one that is smooth, and most of them are.
28:04 Every once in a while they get those rough cuts,
28:05 so be aware of those, okay?
28:08 Now, what we're going to do is,
28:11 the first part of the Faro shuffle
28:12 is how you hold the deck.
28:15 And this is where I see a major part of the problem
28:19 happening when people are attempting
28:21 to do the Faro shuffle.
28:23 Often they're holding back,
28:25 and they're holding the cards too far back,
28:28 and often they're holding the edges too close.
28:32 Basically two similar problems,
28:35 in the sense that they're not allowing
28:37 the cards to be flexible enough to perform the shuffle.
28:41 So, if you take a deck of cards,
28:43 and I'll give you some guidelines to go by, all right?
28:48 We're going to first divide the deck.
28:50 Now, I start off by taking the cards in my left hand.
28:54 Notice the thumb is just about in the middle of the deck,
28:57 just about in the center of the deck,
28:58 maybe a small amount closer to me, okay?
29:02 A little more of this side is showing than this.
29:04 And as I said, we're going to go into some fine details,
29:07 'cause that's what it's all about.
29:08 I'm also controlling the position of all the cards,
29:12 because I have my index finger on the end, okay?
29:14 And I have my three other fingers back here.
29:17 So essentially I've got a nice, even grip,
29:21 keeping the cards fairly straight.
29:22 That's a starting position, all right?
29:25 Now, when you're going to do the Faro shuffle,
29:27 I suggest you perform it in this manner,
29:31 where you lift up on the back of the pack.
29:34 This gives me the ability to peek at the cards
29:36 as I'm riffling through them.
29:38 Now, with this setup, I know that once I see a queen
29:42 and then a king of diamonds,
29:43 the next card is the one I'm going to break on.
29:46 When I'm doing the trick unshuffled,
29:47 because we're doing a sequential Faro shuffle,
29:50 eight of them in a row,
29:52 we're always breaking at the same cards.
29:54 Of course, if you're doing a Faro shuffle for another trick,
29:56 you have to be able to visually look at the cards
30:00 and gauge that there are an equal number of cards here
30:04 to this group here.
30:05 It can be done, and it's very, very doable.
30:09 Very quickly, you'll notice the difference
30:11 between one more card here and one less card here.
30:16 It will be very obvious to you
30:18 if you work with the cards for a long time.
30:21 But initially, it's kind of hard to see,
30:23 and that's why the beauty is that the unshuffled trick,
30:26 basically you don't have to worry about that.
30:28 All I have to do is, the first trick,
30:30 first time I have to look for the king of clubs in this case
30:33 and there it is, all right?
30:35 But I'm not teaching you the trick unshuffled yet,
30:37 so we're not gonna worry about the breaks and so on.
30:38 I'm just trying to show you
30:39 the technique of the Faro shuffle.
30:41 So, place the cards in your starting position, okay?
30:45 Again, thumb approximately in the center,
30:48 a little closer towards you.
30:49 You're then going to, with your other thumb,
30:52 pull up on the cards.
30:53 Now, how are we doing that?
30:54 This fingertip in your right hand
30:56 puts pressure on the back of the card.
30:58 And in the process of putting pressure
31:01 on the back of the card, my thumb lifts up,
31:03 I'm able to peek in, and I break the cards
31:05 exactly at the halfway point.
31:07 Again, in this case, we look for the king of clubs.
31:10 Once we have broken the cards at the halfway point,
31:13 just like this, you bring them back,
31:17 and I'm now holding them for a second, right here,
31:21 by my thumb and third finger of the left hand,
31:26 and I transfer the grip so that now I'm holding
31:31 the top stock in my right hand, as you see.
31:34 Now, again, very important,
31:35 I have about an inch and a quarter showing here.
31:39 I don't wanna be too close,
31:40 I don't wanna be too far back,
31:42 but an inch and a quarter seems to work just about right.
31:47 Now, the reason for that is flexibility, okay?
31:51 This flexes, and because this has some distance
31:54 between the thumb and the finger, this flexes,
31:57 and that's a big part of performing the shuffle.
32:00 Next, we're going to bring the cards together,
32:03 and here's possibly the best piece of information
32:07 I can give you about the Faro shuffle,
32:08 and that is this finger here, okay?
32:13 Many times I see people attempting
32:15 to Faro shuffle the cards visually
32:17 by bringing them together with no control finger on top.
32:21 It can be done, it's taught that way many times,
32:24 but it's not as quick or as effective
32:27 as using the fingertip to control
32:31 how the cards come together at the top.
32:34 I can actually feel if I'm in the right place.
32:36 So, notice as I bring them back, I butt the edges,
32:41 and this is another key important detail.
32:45 As I'm butting the edges together,
32:47 I'm actually angling these down at a slight V angle,
32:51 so I'm angling them, I'm gonna exaggerate it
32:53 just so you can see, that's what I'm doing
32:55 in a very, very subtle manner.
32:57 So, I don't do it that exaggerated, I do it like that.
33:00 And then the same thing happens
33:02 because of the angle of the cards, okay?
33:05 These cards are getting butted,
33:06 exaggerated, there, looks like that,
33:09 but really I don't exaggerate it that much, just like that.
33:12 So, both of those, if I were to put them
33:14 perfectly even together, they would form an A shape
33:17 right there where they come together, okay?
33:20 And it's a very subtle A shape, okay?
33:24 And again, notice what happens here,
33:26 is after you break it at the center,
33:31 come across and butt, your thumb moves back just a bit
33:35 so that now the thumb is not in the center,
33:37 it's even a little closer, okay?
33:40 Again, giving me a little more control here.
33:43 So, as I butt the cards together,
33:45 angling them to an A shape,
33:48 I'm now bringing the edges of the cards together.
33:51 But if you were to look right in the very center,
33:53 there's an A shape, so that I have this half card
33:58 starting on top, I'm doing what we call an out arrow,
34:02 which means the top card stays on top, okay?
34:05 And as I do that, they start to come together,
34:09 just like that.
34:11 Now, what's causing them to come together so easily?
34:15 It's the angle and it's the pressure, okay?
34:18 I have the angle that I showed you
34:20 by butting them together,
34:22 that gives me the angle of the cards.
34:24 The pressure is a light pressure put against the cards
34:29 starting from the top down.
34:31 I'm not jamming them all together from start to finish.
34:35 I'm putting together starting with the top cards
34:38 that slowly interweave down and then they blend together.
34:43 Now, there's one additional piece of information
34:47 that I'm doing that's very hard to see on video
34:50 because of the depth.
34:51 I'm also moving this hand backwards.
34:55 I'm moving it from here backwards slightly as I do it.
34:59 So there's a push, there's a pressure inward
35:02 and there's a pressure backwards.
35:04 What this is doing is this is letting the cards
35:07 very subtly come together with backwards pressure
35:12 in addition to forward pressure.
35:14 So these are all the fine points
35:16 and the details that I've talked about
35:18 and you're going to take and initially bring them together.
35:23 You can feel with your fingertip.
35:25 You can feel with your fingertip
35:27 if you've done it correctly.
35:31 I can actually run this fingertip across the card
35:34 and if I had two cards there, I could tell.
35:37 If the card of my left hand was on top, I could tell.
35:40 The fingertip is a check and I do that in dark rooms
35:44 if I'm doing this in a low light room.
35:46 I can bring them together, check,
35:48 and if I made a mistake, I can reweave, rebut, reweave
35:52 and bring them back together again.
35:54 Now, once they start to weave,
35:57 it's just a matter of pushing them together.
36:00 I transfer the grip so that we're now holding them together
36:04 right there and I come over here
36:06 and I, holding the arc of the bridge with my fingertip,
36:11 I let it go and that's where you get
36:14 the nice shuffle sequence and then you square them up
36:18 and you've completed a perfect Farah shuffle.
36:21 Okay, now let's review with a start and stop technique.
36:26 I'm going to go through the shuffle.
36:29 You're going to do it and I'm occasionally going to say,
36:31 stop, check your position and we'll take a look
36:34 if there's somewhere or something you're doing
36:37 that's gonna make it more difficult
36:38 for you to perform the technique.
36:40 So, start with the cards in the opening position,
36:44 which means the thumb is not quite in the center,
36:47 a little closer to you, okay?
36:50 So there's about maybe an inch here
36:52 and an inch and a quarter over here.
36:54 Index finger right at the end,
36:58 three fingers comfortably gripping the cards.
37:00 Notice how far the tips of the fingers are above the cards.
37:03 Okay, we don't want it like this,
37:05 we don't want it too high,
37:07 we want it just about right,
37:09 so you have as much control as possible.
37:12 I come in here and I lift up looking for my break,
37:16 in this case, I'm looking for the ace of diamonds.
37:19 If you're sticking with me after that first shuffle,
37:21 you should be looking for the ace of diamonds too.
37:24 You break the cards, come back
37:26 and stop and check your position, okay?
37:31 Are you holding the cards here between the index,
37:34 between the third finger and the thumb?
37:36 You're still holding these firm here
37:38 and this one is on the forward group.
37:41 The little finger is not really in play
37:43 at this point in time, okay?
37:44 It can actually be up and out of the way.
37:47 I then come back and shift position,
37:49 taking the cards and we do the butt.
37:52 Now here, make sure that you are actually angling
37:56 these cards in with the help of the edge of this deck,
38:00 while at the same time, you are angling these cards in
38:05 so that they stick a little more out on top
38:08 than they do on the bottom by angling them in
38:10 by tilting this deck this way a bit.
38:13 As you can see, this way points in that way,
38:16 this angle points in, we're exaggerating it,
38:19 that's what you would have an exaggerated A shape,
38:23 but of course, we don't want it to be that much,
38:25 we just want a slightly exaggerated A shape, okay?
38:30 Now, again, do a check in terms
38:33 of how you're holding these cards.
38:35 Here, and look at your hand very carefully
38:38 in relationship to mine, okay?
38:40 Are you holding them too far here?
38:43 You're going to have a problem, okay?
38:44 Are you holding them too close here?
38:47 You're going to have a problem.
38:49 If you hold them right about here,
38:52 and I have to get into it so that I can show you properly,
38:56 okay, just about an inch of space
38:58 between your thumb and your index finger.
39:00 Is your index finger extended enough
39:02 so that it can be right here on the tip?
39:04 So that the pad of your index finger
39:06 is literally just over the lip of the cards.
39:09 That's where you want it to be,
39:10 because that's what's going to check
39:11 to make sure they're joining up correctly, okay?
39:14 And the rest of the cards are in the hand.
39:16 Notice they're fairly deep in my hand, okay?
39:19 I'm not holding them down like this,
39:22 because I don't have as much control over them.
39:25 I'm holding them fairly deep in my hands
39:28 so that I have control over this whole group of cards.
39:31 When I start to butt them in,
39:33 this flexibility and this flexibility
39:37 are going to let them smoothly come together, okay?
39:41 Now, we've done a check there.
39:43 Now, the next, we've done the butt,
39:45 we've done the check on how we're holding them.
39:47 You have them in position.
39:48 Now, bring the edges together, okay?
39:52 Now, this is where you can visually help yourself.
39:55 You can bring them close enough to your eyes, okay?
39:58 Especially if you have bifocals,
39:59 you might have to do that like me.
40:00 And I can see that the top card
40:04 is in fact above the card on my left-hand side.
40:09 So I can see that I'm doing a proper out-barrel.
40:12 And this ace of hearts will stay on top.
40:15 Visually do that.
40:17 Now, when you do it for a long time,
40:19 you can actually get to the point
40:20 where you can almost do it just by touch, okay?
40:21 You could even do blindfolded.
40:23 I've played with that.
40:24 And you can hit them sometimes.
40:26 But by looking carefully,
40:29 I bring them in and I butt them together.
40:32 Now, if you're doing the Faro
40:34 and if you've practiced it for many years,
40:36 a different technique, this will be hard to change,
40:39 all right, because I'm showing you a different holding
40:41 and a different handling of this move.
40:44 And if you've been used to doing them like this,
40:48 we're doing it different.
40:49 And notice we're changing positions.
40:51 Try it this way.
40:52 Play with it for a few weeks.
40:53 I can guarantee you, if you learn it with more control,
40:58 it will be much faster and much easier to do
41:00 and more secure, okay?
41:03 I often see people holding them up like this,
41:05 attempting to do it.
41:06 But again, the major mistake I see made with the Faro
41:10 is the attempt to bring them together,
41:13 number one, without any control finger,
41:16 and number two, to try to bring them together all at once.
41:21 And this is where you'll dog ear them
41:22 or jam them together as opposed to bringing them together,
41:27 starting at the top, slow down,
41:29 and slowly down the length of that A shape, okay?
41:33 So we're now here.
41:36 We're bringing the edges together.
41:38 I've looked to make sure I've got the one on top.
41:41 And then I'm pushing not just in,
41:44 and I'm not really pushing in.
41:46 I'm letting the flexibility of the cards
41:48 do most of the work, okay?
41:50 So there's very little forward pressure this way.
41:54 Mostly, I'm butting them against each other,
41:56 and I'm pushing backwards, a subtle push backwards,
42:01 and they will come together.
42:04 So if you were to look at the end result
42:07 of my Faro shuffle closely right here,
42:10 you can see that this deck is a little further
42:13 in this direction.
42:15 Now, I'm exaggerating it, of course,
42:17 but if I were to do it in this way,
42:20 it's very subtle, but it is.
42:23 It's slightly back a small, small, tiny measurement.
42:27 But that's from me pushing the cards backwards
42:30 just a bit during the course of the shuffle.
42:32 Once we get them to this point,
42:34 the work, of course, as you know,
42:35 or the hard work at least, is done.
42:38 We're pushing them in to the point
42:40 where I can take over with the thumb and the finger.
42:45 I'm then coming here and pushing up
42:48 with the index finger of the left hand
42:51 and doing the buckle so that we can,
42:54 or the bridge, so we can let them come down.
42:56 And in the course of shuffling them,
42:59 we've squared them up,
43:00 and we've done another perfect Faro shuffle.
43:02 So that is the main technique I use.
43:07 A little bit of a different handling,
43:09 work with it when you get the cards
43:12 and shuffle them together,
43:14 they will very, very smoothly come together.
43:18 I'll do this a couple times,
43:19 so as I'm doing it, you can kind of keep up with me
43:22 or attempt to perform the shuffle.
43:27 And I'll see if there's anything else
43:30 I can point out to you about the movement,
43:34 that they are coming together just like that.
43:39 And one more or two more,
43:42 we should be back to where we started.
43:44 It's now saying unshuffled on the side of this deck
43:48 four times, and we'll be going into the trick
43:51 in just a moment.
43:52 And then if I give it another unshuffle,
43:56 and again, it now says unshuffled two times
44:03 and one more time.
44:04 Now, let me show you one or two things
44:06 that occasionally something can happen,
44:09 like you have split the deck properly,
44:13 you're starting to shuffle the cards
44:15 and you notice, I'll try to make a mistake here,
44:19 there, and you'll notice that you're not hitting it perfect.
44:24 At that point, what you have to do
44:25 is you have to reweave and do it again.
44:28 And a simple way is just simply to reweave the cards.
44:32 It's usually easier to just square them up
44:35 and then pick up the break and start again.
44:39 Sometimes you can, if you make a mistake,
44:41 for instance, there I did an in faro,
44:44 the ace is under the card over here,
44:46 I would reweave and I can square up and rebut them again.
44:51 But sometimes you still have little spaces in here
44:54 if you try that technique,
44:55 and it's easier to just square it up, reweave,
44:59 and now you have firm grips on all the cards
45:02 and you can then take and perform the faro shuffle again
45:07 and correct your mistake.
45:10 And now we're back to it saying unshuffled,
45:12 and if we were to take a look at this deck of cards,
45:15 everything is back into perfect position.
45:17 Eight faro shuffles brings it back to where we started,
45:20 and that's the idea behind the trick unshuffled.
45:23 So I would like to point out, if you have any questions,
45:28 and if you're working on learning the faro shuffle
45:33 since you purchased this DVD,
45:35 don't hesitate to email me with any questions whatsoever.
45:39 I'm always intrigued when someone says,
45:41 "Now, here's a problem I'm having."
45:43 Almost in 100% of the cases,
45:45 I can listen to what your problem is,
45:48 or in some cases, look at someone doing it on video
45:51 and understand, wait a minute,
45:53 if you move your finger a little here,
45:55 if you don't put as much pressure there,
45:57 it will change the dynamics and the shuffle will work.
46:00 So don't hesitate to email me any questions you have,
46:03 I'll respond to you and give you my best input
46:06 for assisting you and getting you
46:08 to be able to perfect the technique also.
46:10 I want you to learn this, I want you to do this trick,
46:13 I want you to show other magicians that it can be done.
46:16 Now, we're going to take a short break here,
46:22 I will reset my deck and we'll come back,
46:24 and then we're going to learn unshuffled.
46:27 Now, when you're performing the faro shuffle
46:34 and you're using a brand new deck order,
46:37 same cards, you break at the exact same cards
46:39 every single time, and when you do unshuffle,
46:41 that's the same case.
46:42 So just to review that with you,
46:44 and of course, all these are detailed
46:46 in the PDF instructions that are part of this DVD.
46:49 Initially, we're breaking at the king of clubs
46:52 and performing the first faro shuffle.
46:56 And the second card then is a break at the ace of diamonds.
47:00 Then, the nice thing is,
47:03 since they're all in the same position,
47:05 you know that the minute you see the seven of diamonds,
47:08 the next card you're going to break at
47:10 is the seven of clubs.
47:12 So essentially, not only do you use the cards
47:14 that you break at to peek at,
47:16 but you use the cards before them.
47:18 So coming up here, I see the four of diamonds
47:20 and the four of hearts,
47:21 so I know four of diamonds is my next breaking point.
47:24 And then, the next is, I watch for the nine of hearts,
47:29 which the next card is the nine of spades.
47:33 And we're now at, now see right there,
47:36 if I went in, I can just immediately reweave
47:38 and come out and then hit it.
47:40 The next one would be the five of spades.
47:44 And the final one, at least,
47:49 or the final two, I should say,
47:51 would be the three of spades.
47:53 And then, I come to the two of spades.
47:58 And those are all the break cards
48:01 that we're using to split the deck
48:04 perfectly in half each time.
48:05 Now, now that you've got the technique
48:10 and you've been working with the technique
48:12 of the Barrow Shuffle,
48:14 the best thing you can do with the video,
48:15 as I mentioned, is to go back and review it
48:18 again and again and again,
48:20 watching the small little details
48:22 as I'm pointing out how to hold the cards
48:24 and where to put the pressure.
48:26 Remember, it is a very, very light pressure
48:31 that's put here, very light.
48:33 And as I'm doing it, notice what's happening
48:37 is the cards are bending down.
48:40 They are actually bending down,
48:42 forming a V shape as they're coming together.
48:45 And as they bend down and I push backwards,
48:49 I then cause them to go together.
48:53 But you'll do notice that they do bend down like that
48:56 lightly as the cards come together, just like that.
49:01 Now, you'll notice right here,
49:02 I have two cards on top, two cards on the bottom.
49:05 So I can immediately look at that and go,
49:06 whoa, there's a problem there.
49:08 I can reweave or square up and re-split.
49:13 And now I do it again.
49:16 Now, one final detail with the Barrow
49:18 is I bring my finger across the card.
49:22 And I do that if I have any concern
49:26 as to whether I hit it.
49:27 You probably didn't see me do that too many times here
49:30 because I can tell by looking at the bottom connection
49:33 and seeing that everything is perfect throughout
49:36 that I didn't need to do the check.
49:38 But in a darker environment,
49:40 I often do the check here to see if I'm okay.
49:45 Now here, take a note, I can see there's a mistake there.
49:48 Because I should have this card on the bottom,
49:51 not this one over here.
49:54 So the minute I see a mistake,
49:55 I can reweave and come back and hit it.
49:59 And then I'm ready to go.
50:01 People sometimes ask, what happens if you miss?
50:05 If you perform a shuffle and it's not perfect,
50:08 will the trick still work?
50:09 Well, I'll show you what happens in that case.
50:12 If I give the cards a couple more shuffles,
50:14 I'll set it up at the beginning position
50:16 and I'll intentionally make a mistake.
50:19 And you can see what happens with the words
50:21 on the side of the deck
50:22 and I'll show you ways I handle it.
50:24 If we're ready to do the trick,
50:26 it says unshuffled eight times,
50:28 this is the starting position.
50:30 If you make a mistake on the very first shuffle,
50:32 it's problematic because chances are
50:34 it's gonna be very hard to read what the words say
50:37 as you go down the line.
50:38 If you are one card off on the second or the third shuffle,
50:42 it's not as much of a problem
50:44 because you can still make out the words.
50:46 You may not, you may not be able to show them
50:49 or you won't be able to show them in perfect order,
50:52 but you can still at least get the one effect out of it,
50:55 which is the word unshuffled
50:56 and it still will change to the word eight of hearts
50:59 just using the standard method that we talked about so far.
51:03 But let's assume that we have done the first shuffle
51:07 and that's worked,
51:09 but let's assume that somewhere along this second shuffle,
51:11 we don't notice that we were off.
51:14 And instead of having just one card here,
51:16 I had two cards on that side,
51:18 I'm even going two cards off here.
51:20 Now it's very difficult to read, as you can see,
51:22 it says unshuffled, but you can still make it out,
51:26 but you have to kind of help them to see it.
51:28 And if I give the cards one more unshuffle just like this,
51:32 again, now, once the cards are off,
51:34 you're on your own as far as where to break the card,
51:37 you have to literally know which is the halfway point.
51:40 And if I give it an unshuffle like that,
51:43 you can see what I'm saying.
51:46 It still says unshuffled.
51:48 It's hard to read.
51:49 Now, here's the key point.
51:50 They don't know that this is not
51:52 what it's supposed to look like.
51:53 So you can just simply pretend to say it's like a barcode.
51:57 It's hard to see, but you can still make it out, watch,
51:59 and there it is, unshuffled.
52:01 The only problem is if it says unshuffled,
52:04 why would you not show them that the cards are unshuffled?
52:07 Because they aren't.
52:08 So doing the trick when it says unshuffled
52:11 and they're not unshuffled is problematic.
52:13 If I'm doing it with a company name on here,
52:15 I can still get around it
52:16 'cause it still at least says Pit Depots
52:18 or Babcock & Wilcox or Westinghouse,
52:20 and they can still make out the company name.
52:23 But so that gives you a little handle on what to do.
52:25 Basically, the best thing to do is if you notice
52:27 there's a problem, reweave right away
52:29 and do a double check
52:31 and make sure that you don't have an issue.
52:33 You can see it still says it, and I could still do this.
52:36 Well, they're not perfectly unshuffled, but watch carefully.
52:39 I'll see if I can find your card.
52:41 And there it is, your eight of hearts.
52:44 Again, a little hard to read,
52:45 but it does say eight of hearts, okay?
52:49 Now, you can put anything you want on an unshuffled deck.
52:53 Usually I'm putting a company name or a product name
52:55 just to give you an idea of many of them.
53:00 This is one of many boxes I have
53:02 that have different products or company names on them.
53:05 Sometimes if I'm doing a wedding,
53:07 I'll put the name of the bride and the groom
53:10 on the side of the deck with a little heart in the middle.
53:13 And if you're doing this,
53:14 then it's always nice on the other side
53:15 when it changes to have it say eight of hearts,
53:18 but the of is in red.
53:21 So it sort of matches up with the red
53:24 on the heart on this side.
53:26 So lots of different ideas,
53:27 lots of different ways to use the trick.
53:29 I hope you enjoy it.
53:30 It's a great trick.
53:32 And thanks very much for buying this DVD,
53:36 Unshuffling the Pharaoh Shuffle.
53:40 Well, I hope you've enjoyed Unshuffling the Pharaoh Shuffle.
53:43 You're going to put in many hours of perfecting the shuffle,
53:46 but once you see the reaction you get,
53:48 I know it will be worth it.
53:50 The best way to use this video
53:51 is to come back to it again and again,
53:53 as you work on learning the technique.
53:55 Chances are the first few times through,
53:59 you will breeze over some fine points and details
54:01 that just did not seem like a big deal,
54:04 but you will realize their importance
54:07 after the fourth or fifth viewing.
54:09 As I said at the beginning,
54:11 it is the very fine, tiny details that I mentioned
54:14 that can be the difference between struggling
54:16 and hitting a perfect pharaoh shuffle every time.
54:19 Watch it again with the cards in hand,
54:21 and you'll start to catch mistakes you're making
54:23 and my suggestions for correcting them.
54:26 Check each finger position and angle
54:28 against what I'm doing on the video.
54:30 I truly believe that if you follow my instructions,
54:32 you will be hitting those eight pharaohs
54:34 in 60 seconds or less.
54:36 When you do, email us a video,
54:38 and we'll post it on our website
54:40 to show others that it can be done.
54:42 Thanks again for supporting all of the products
54:46 from the Paul Gertner Group and Paul Gertner Magic.
54:49 Our goal is to create unique magical effects
54:52 and combine them with professional presentations
54:54 for both amateur and professional magicians
54:56 around the world.
54:57 I'm glad you joined me for Unshuffling the Pharaoh Shuffle.
55:01 May all of your shuffles be perfect.
55:04 See you next time.
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