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    Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret Gambling Demo

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    This document discusses several non-faro methods for the second phase of Trick's effect. It proposes having the spectator count cards from two face down piles into your hand to alternate the colors without using faro shuffling. Another method involves secretly tucking extra cards behind your knee and adding them to your pile when counting cards. The discussion also notes that while very unlikely, it is possible to lose the first phase statistically around one in twenty times even with the takeaway move.

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    Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret Gambling Demo

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    This document discusses several non-faro methods for the second phase of Trick's effect. It proposes having the spectator count cards from two face down piles into your hand to alternate the colors without using faro shuffling. Another method involves secretly tucking extra cards behind your knee and adding them to your pile when counting cards. The discussion also notes that while very unlikely, it is possible to lose the first phase statistically around one in twenty times even with the takeaway move.

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    This document discusses several non-faro methods for the second phase of Trick's effect. It proposes having the spectator count cards from two face down piles into your hand to alternate the colors without using faro shuffling. Another method involves secretly tucking extra cards behind your knee and adding them to your pile when counting cards. The discussion also notes that while very unlikely, it is possible to lose the first phase statistically around one in twenty times even with the takeaway move.

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    Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret Gambling Demo

    Uploaded by

    Stephen Cohen
    This document discusses several non-faro methods for the second phase of Trick's effect. It proposes having the spectator count cards from two face down piles into your hand to alternate the colors without using faro shuffling. Another method involves secretly tucking extra cards behind your knee and adding them to your pile when counting cards. The discussion also notes that while very unlikely, it is possible to lose the first phase statistically around one in twenty times even with the takeaway move.

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    From Trick's inventor:

    This is a non-faro workaround for the second phase. This will only make sense to those who know the effect.

    During the 2nd phase you offer to "sit out" the deal and discard all of the mismatched pairs. While dealing the discards-place the r-b in one pile face down in front of you
    and the b-r in another pile in front of you. you are showing that you actually receive double the odds. After the deal pick up the top card of one of your piles and scoop the
    pile up. Plop it on top of the other pile beside it. Now they are all r-b-r-b order! Ask the spectators to count their piles into your hand one card at a time (much like bro
    gilbert says in his post) and plop them on top of the remainder. Presto-the whole deck is alternating colors-no faro required. (Make sure to begin with the correct color on
    the bottom of the pile-for example if the top card of your tabled half is r-then accept the first card of the count from Mr. black.

    The 2 pile idea is an elegant improvement over the non-faro method in the book. The rationale follows the routine-your demonstrating why they lost in the 1st round.."the
    odds were double in my favor" I've been working this trick for almost 15 years and it just goes to show that it's possible to be too close to something. I really love hearing
    the refinements that people discover. Hope this makes sense to someone out there.

    ***************

    Another idea:

    That makes perfect sense Dave and a great idea from a fellow Canuck. I have also found in situations where I don't have the envelope and bills (in Canada there are no
    one dollar bills) I'm usually sitting and the attention is relaxed or whatever after a trick (or dinner), I simply take the required cards for the first phase (you'll know if you
    have the manuscript) and tuck them behind my right knee, after you win the first round wich people can mostly see from the slightly larger stack I say "It looks like I won
    but lets count the cards anyway' they go for thier cards to count I grab the ones from behind my knee slap them onto my pile ( just looks like you gather up etc) and count
    legit. Another deal when in a living room without envelope and not sitting just leave the (special number of cards) in the card box, do the first phase, win. As you gloat or
    whatever about your luck slip the cards back in the box, then offer to explain, pull all cards back out and you're ready to go.

    **********
    I absolutely love the effect, but out of the (literally) dozens of times practicing all three phases, I have, if I were betting, lost my money on the first phase. Even with R
    minus 4, the first phase will not always work out in your advantage. Granted, it has only happened twice, but that is two times to much. Has this happened to any one
    else? I guess the obvious failsafe would be to carry an additional envelope of money containing the same amount, continue the routine by adding more money to it, and
    double the monies in phase three (i.e., $2 to $4), but I am curious as to the amount of times this has happened to anyone.
    ByranNewell- The probablity of you losing after you do the "take-away" is extremely low...so I'm kind of questioning if you really performed it correctly...I
    have performed this a total of 5 times (not including the 15+ of practice) and losing hasn't happened to me once... 0

    Ive lost on the first round in the past before as well. I found that shuffling the deck a lot improves your chances.

    Statistically, with R-4 you should lose around one in twenty times - yes so unless you actually do this for money and win the other 19 times, you're going to be out of
    pocket. On the other hand, just stack one end of the deck with cards in the dealers winning arrangement and shuffle only the other end of the deck, it improves the odds
    immensely.

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