Ricky Jay - Cutting the Aces and Triumph

[kunkushun1]

whoever gave this a dislike ...it must of been on accident

[boppzz]

my version is 100 times better. check it out.

[RS1963]

@boppzz Your version is not even one time better.

[monkeyman822]

i dont understand how he actually lost the cards completely, no pinky breaks.. i think it is because he cut the deck into 4 exactly the same piles. and puts the ace in the same place in each pile.. then he works out a way of getting then to the top, and bottom

[dobsonone]

@monkeyman822 breather crimp, vernon wrote wonderfully about them search it out very valuable

[kieku87]

@dobsonone He uses no breathers or crimbs here, you can find the way to do this (controlling aces to the top of the deck) in Harry Lorayne's Close-up Card Magic book. It's just a clever method with a ordinary deck of cards, no breathers or anything.

[kabatatoshio]

nice

[YoniSnp1]

lol 5555 views

[TheZhengmeister]

wow table faro, nice

[Lirazen85]

Is that the mum from Happy Days in the audience?

[RS1963]

@Lirazen85 Yes that is Mrs Cunningham. Marrion Ross.

[pricelessmagic94]

i av figured out a technique of doing this with a spectator shuffling the cards and then i cut to them without any crimps at all it takes years of practice

[RS1963]

@pricelessmagic94 Ricky didn't use any crimps either. The ace cutting and Triumph effect do take some practice but not years.

[pricelessmagic94]

@RS1963 probably his version doesnt but the method i use takes a hell of alot of practice but i find it better as the spectator shuffles the deck themselves even there own deck.

[pricelessmagic94]

@RS1963 probably his version doesnt but the method i use takes a hell of alot of practice but i find it better as the spectator shuffles the deck themselves even there own deck. and i dnt use crimps either

[cirrusism]

the first ace cutting is the miracle aces by Ed Marlo with a different ending (a hindu shuffle force thing), the second ace cutting the ace cutting the aces are on top. If you haven't figured out the rest after watches it 2 or 3 times, you are in no means a magician.

[1971ojoalparche1971]

@cirrusism And if you were any kind of magician, you wouldn't care to mention how the trick is done. Let me guess: you learned what little you know watching video tutorials on YouTube, and there's no way in hell you could do this trick or any other.

[jazsax3]

The first ace, he bends the cards a bit more and offsets the deck at the ace. I can't figure out the second one, only that he cut one past the ace originally and then backed it up. For the third ace, the deck is out of frame, so I can't figure it out. For the fourth one he placed the two right next to each other (haven't figured out how yet) which is why he checks the card at 1:08. After that, he offsets the deck again and cuts the final ace to the bottom and does the process theback45 describes

[1971ojoalparche1971]

@jazsax3 None of these moves have to do with injogging or offsetting cards, and much less bending them. There are very clever ways to control them, and it takes a lot of practice.

You can outjog the cards for one of the moves, but it's not necessary. You may want to do it just to give the trick a bit more flash.

[RS1963]

@jazsax3 You're not even near the ballpark of how or what Ricky Jay did.

[theback45]

1:10 look carefully. He's keeping the Ace card at the bottom of the deck. And when he does his Indian shuffle it's fake cause he keeps shuffling the top cards and so the buttom card stays there. And when Jeff says stop he simply throws the last one, which is the Ace.

[superchef78]

@theback45 Generally speaking the 'shuffle' (which is actually a strip cut) was true and not false, as you said. A false shuffle is a shuffle that keeps at least some portion of the cards (if not all of them) in their order before the shuffle. The 'shuffle' Jay did actually mixed the pack, therefore it was not false as you said.

[MrChrisismagic]

@superchef78 the first riffle shuffles where zarrow shuffles

[superchef78]

@MrChrisismagic I know. The preceding shuffles before the card control were all true though. The user I was responding to (theback45) was mistaken. They thought that the strip cut (which was used to produce the final ace) was a 'false shuffle' when it is actually a strip cut. Thanks for the reply.

[MrChrisismagic]

@superchef78 ahh kk :) sorry man...ive been trying to figure this out for like 2 months and i cant :( lol

[RS1963]

@theback45 Indian shuffle? there is no such thing as an Indian shuffle. Hindu shuffle yes. Indian no.

[ivan8891]

This is an excellent routine,its clean and impromptu....and above all,perfectly executed...bravo..