Ten Card Poker Deal
Ten Card Poker Deal
Hello
I am interested in starting a deeply study of the classic effect of Ten Card Poker Deal.
I have some references;
Darwin Ortiz Mexican Poker published in At The Card Table pag. 29, David Solomon Revised Mexican Poker in Solomon's Notes 1997.
I saw also Ricky Jay do a terrific routine in his special on BBC absolutely upstanding for the dramatic presentation.
Also Derren Brown had a great presentation in his first special TV.
If you agree I'd like to ear some suggestions about your favourite version and some comments about your experience in presenting it for laymen.
Thanks
Cheers
I am interested in starting a deeply study of the classic effect of Ten Card Poker Deal.
I have some references;
Darwin Ortiz Mexican Poker published in At The Card Table pag. 29, David Solomon Revised Mexican Poker in Solomon's Notes 1997.
I saw also Ricky Jay do a terrific routine in his special on BBC absolutely upstanding for the dramatic presentation.
Also Derren Brown had a great presentation in his first special TV.
If you agree I'd like to ear some suggestions about your favourite version and some comments about your experience in presenting it for laymen.
Thanks
Cheers
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Re: Ten Card Poker Deal
Gary Ouellet knocked my socks off (and partially dislodged my underwear) with a demonstration of Tony Binarelli's "Cincinnati Kid Poker Game" (Class Act, 1991). You may want to check it out.
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Dick Ryan, popular trade show worker, has one of the finest versions I have ever seen.
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I wrote up Dick's routine for him. I also saw him "kill" with it at a tradeshow in the Big Easy.
Mister Flim-Flam, Bob Farmer, exhaustively covered the Ten-Card Poker Deal in his column in MAGIC several months ago. I think he plans to put all of this into a book...someday...
Onward...
Mister Flim-Flam, Bob Farmer, exhaustively covered the Ten-Card Poker Deal in his column in MAGIC several months ago. I think he plans to put all of this into a book...someday...
Onward...
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I learnt this excellent effect from Harry Lorayne's Deck-Sterity. He describes his own handling of it at length, taking some eleven pages to do so.
As the thread Harold previously referred to shows, the idea for this effect does not originate with Lorayne himself and in Deck-Sterity he clearly admits that.
HT
As the thread Harold previously referred to shows, the idea for this effect does not originate with Lorayne himself and in Deck-Sterity he clearly admits that.
HT
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I was also going to suggest looking up Farmer's column. Columns actually as I believe it carried over three issues. Everything you'd ever want to know about the Ten Card Poker deal. I'd like to mention two of my favorites though, Bruce Bernstein's Psych-Out and Ernest Earick's version in his book, "By Forces Unseen."
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I think it's fascinating how Bob Farmer is applying the principles used in the "Ten-Card Poker Deal" to BlackJack (with Harry the Cat's help) in the first installment of the new series of Flim-Flam in the February issue of Genii.
Wait until you see how ingeniously this develops in the second Flim Flam column in the April issue! I've already read it (lucky me)--be on the look-out!
Wait until you see how ingeniously this develops in the second Flim Flam column in the April issue! I've already read it (lucky me)--be on the look-out!
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Thanks Gentlemen!
Great job Mr Bob Farmer thank you.
I also found on Internet an interesting approach from spectator point of view http://www.online-visions.com/effects/0302worst.html
Cheers
Great job Mr Bob Farmer thank you.
I also found on Internet an interesting approach from spectator point of view http://www.online-visions.com/effects/0302worst.html
Cheers
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There's a great version by Tomas Blomberg in an old Magic Magazine (August 1999). It is based on versions by John Bannon and David Solomon. I use it all the time.
Jim
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Jim,
There seems to be a faulty reference:
In MAGIC August 1999, on p. 76, the effect REVISED MEXICAN POKER is not from Tomas Blomberg, but from Solomon/Bannon.
See also in the in meantime published book by John Bannon "Dear Mr. Fantasy"(2004) the effect "The Power Of Poker" pp. 189- 197.
Reinhard
There seems to be a faulty reference:
In MAGIC August 1999, on p. 76, the effect REVISED MEXICAN POKER is not from Tomas Blomberg, but from Solomon/Bannon.
See also in the in meantime published book by John Bannon "Dear Mr. Fantasy"(2004) the effect "The Power Of Poker" pp. 189- 197.
Reinhard
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In that same article (p 77) in that same issue of MAGIC Magazine is the way I perform it, Reinhard. It's just the addition of a pulldown to get an even dealing pattern where the spectator and magician gets every other card.
Also, I spotted a flaw in the version of Revised Mexican Poker that Solomon and Bannon sent me as the spectator could beat the magician at times, so I suggested a change of the stack and it's that exact version that is published on page 76. So I think it's Solomon/Bannon/Blomberg.
Mike Powers has a very very good version of the plot in his latest book Power Plays. Definitely worth checking out.
/Tomas
Also, I spotted a flaw in the version of Revised Mexican Poker that Solomon and Bannon sent me as the spectator could beat the magician at times, so I suggested a change of the stack and it's that exact version that is published on page 76. So I think it's Solomon/Bannon/Blomberg.
Mike Powers has a very very good version of the plot in his latest book Power Plays. Definitely worth checking out.
/Tomas
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Tomas,
excuse me, I have really missed "The Blomberg Variation" from p. 77.
Reinhard
excuse me, I have really missed "The Blomberg Variation" from p. 77.
Reinhard
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Just curious, but why is the other topic on poker deals closed?
I think this is the link:
http://geniimagazine.com/forum/cgi-bin/ ... 6;t=000173
I think this is the link:
http://geniimagazine.com/forum/cgi-bin/ ... 6;t=000173
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Holy cow! That was four years ago and before I was handed the dreaded hammer-o-power. I'm sure there was a reason, and possibly even a good one, but danged if I know!
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Because it was a four-year old thread that should've been closed earlier. I did some maintainence on it and closed it.
If you want to start a new thread on poker deals, GO FOR IT!
If you want to start a new thread on poker deals, GO FOR IT!
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