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  • Aren't casinos great! If your too good they kick you out!

  • i was born in 1993 and I can count cards in any slowly moving black jack game. It really is just adding or subtracting and waiting until the value is perfect to bet

  • @ilyaseleznyov if you didnt read his book then do. There is a good info about how to do this

  • Not as good as the stuff in the Mindreading Exposed ebook

  • The technique he is using is called a memory palace, most people can learn the trick with the right effort and guidance. The way he is using it is similar to that of a card counter, only he is doing things a little different. It's quite clever actually.

  • its not cheating or a scam because he is using his mind in a clever way.

  • @whispersinmyheart0 The only scam is the the odds are stacked highly in the dealers favor and the only way to win is to count cards.

  • Remember, the magician never reveals the true nature of a trick. This is a "dual reality" effect. This means the way we perceive it is different to the casino staff. they are ambiguosly described. in shock; he keeps winning; hes lucky. None of these pertain to the time he spent sitting down. He makes us believe its one long session by making this mystic story about memory tools, the casion believes he is merely lucky and suspicious. 80% showmanship

  • and the loci thing is merely a cover up for a simple answer. when certain cards come out he gives them a value and subtracts or adds to a baseline total. Cross referencing this total to a perfect blackjack strategy sheet that would have been previously memorised, gives him logical actions based on his totals. So he just waits till the baseline total of the deck being "hot" and jumps in then if it goes "cold" leaves and cuts the footage. clever cut and past but it fools all of us.

  • this is a simple effect. its just counting cards until the opportune moment presents itself then jumping in for 4 hands when the deck is "hot". he could have done this at multiple tables until he gets a successfull one, then scrubbing the rest of the footage. like his effect with the russian scam only worked 65% of the time and he woulod have chosen extremely suggestible and fairy brained individuals.

  • the real scam is BLACKJACK, played perfectly you win less then 50% of the time... So you're srewed unless you screw them... (see vid).

  • and i would also say that the casiono are the ones CHEATING and should be arrested for kicked out people out of the casino just for not losing enough.

  • I think he's using a method called the Method of Loci, or "walking the room", first recorded in a Roman text called Ad Herrenium, designed to help rhetors remember their speeches. Very effective.

  • i hate the people in the casinos.

    OH NO HES NOT LOSING THATS NOT FAIR WE MIGHT LOSE 1% of OUR MONEY WE ROBBED FROM THESE OTHER MUGS.

    i think if your using just your mind then its not cheating.

  • @topbluffa1 lol glad i´m not the only one who see´s it tht way xD

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  • @tothefly It's called the 'method of loci' where people chose a room or environment very familiar to them to assign words/numbers/cards/etc to the objects in those rooms. It is a very difficult technique to use effectively but it has been used for a good two thousand or so years so I trust it works ;)

  • that hurt my head :S

  • Oh wow, I just read that he's been banned from all casinos in Britain. Though there are some other casinos like the publicity they get when he visits (as long as it's associated with one of his shows).

    I guess there's no wonder why he would be banned. Still, it's kind of a shame.

  • @IDoNotBlameYou where did u read tht from?

  • soo.. cool!!! I want to be a mentalist, just like him.....

  • if he could really do that he would be getting minted in vegas

  • This is completely fake, no one can do this, it is still chance because i count cards at casinos and its about when to bet and not to bet, you still lose. Also, you win in the long term, not the short term because you only get a marginal advantage over the dealer which is good considering most of the time your at a disadvantage.

  • @cjpendleton1993 You count cards yet your name says 1993. The amount of time it takes to study card counting I highly doubt that you actually count cards.

  • @Khartik09 i was born in 92 and i can count cards

  • @Khartik09 It's not as hard as you think. Card counting at it's most basic level requires no more than a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics.

  • @Khartik09 it doesn't take that long to learn it's actually just simple adding and subtracting

  • @Khartik09 Do you even know how it works? It is a lot simpler than you let on.

  • nice video but is all a lie even if you knew exactly and in fact they allowed you to check the cards that have already been dealt it is imposible to get such an edge from playing black jack the max edge you can get would be btw 1%-2.5% thats your roi also black jack is high variance game just like NL holdem it is imposible to actually see the results that quick or just running hot

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  • casinos are for people with too much money, and not enough sense to do something useful with it.

  • even if you counted cards, that still only leaves you with odds. a higher or lower chance of a particular card, it never removes entirely the element of chance, yet his win/loss ratio would suggest otherwise, thats probably why they throw him out.

  • who do you think is better, derren or mindfreak?

  • @LyricalStatus1 lol Mindfreak? Chris Angel? Derren is waaayyyy better. Derren uses a mixture of magic, hypnosis, misdirection, psychology and showmanship while Chris Angel uses... special effects.

    Watch some of Derrens Live shows here on youtube like An Evening of Wonders, Something Wicked This Way Comes or Enigma.

  • Casino's should not tell people to leave for winning, only if they are cheating.

  • @LLOYD19851012

    yeh i believe if its all using your mind then it is not cheating in anyway they dont ask drunk millionaires to leave who are spending hundreds of thousands daily they would still be ahead even if the odd person was smart enough to card count all the losers would heavily outway their losses from the card counters.

    greedy bastards

  • @LLOYD19851012

    The casinos are the biggest crooks of all barring the government, by asking someone to leave who isnt cheating is cheating.

  • Derren is good at scamming. Just not for Lottery numbers - that was split screen or sticking people to chairs!

  • @alexistheman102657 You've completely missed the point of that episode. He broke in, he didn't guess the numbers.

  • I imagine he would be a good detective

  • derren brown rocks

  • Ars memoria variant. I use rhyme to remember arbitrary number sequences also.

  • Windows control actually

  • @toxic2k7: Not every third world country is full of idiots.... PLEASE B MORE SPECIFIC

  • contrary to popular belief, card counting with your brain is not cheating.

  • @dude157 IDD cart counting in your head is called "skill" lol It is card counting in Groups and communicating (collusion) information to other players that is ALWAYS cheating.

  • so he would be asked to leave casinos because hes lucky and winning this means once you go into casinos ur playing a losing game.....

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  • i dont believe the whole room with items idea i think derren is so clever he just card counts

  • @rtorres9999 its called mnemonics. look it up

  • @rtorres9999 The items in the room is his system for card counting! each item represents a card and by removing the stickers he knows which cards are left and how many there are!!!

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  • well he isn't cheating isn't he? he's just super smart?! he can't get kicked out from a casino for that can ya?

  • @Krudelutt i'm sure you can get kicked out of a casino for a number of reasons, that probably being one of them.

  • @Krudelutt You can get kicked out of casinos for card counting, it's considered unsporting.

  • So basically you gotta be super smart, kinda insane, and have an amazingly photographic memory.

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  • lol

  • BTW it wasn't orignaly his isea with the house

    

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  • Its IMPOSSIBLE to accurately read a shuffle of 4 decks. Basically he has taken the concept of card counting (estimating the probablity of cartain cards based on the frequency of previous cards) and tells you complete garbage about how he is super intelligent/psychic and using objects to remember cards (he also stole this idea).

  • memory rooms? 52 objects? sounds like he has autism.

  • @tothefly Perhaps you mean it sounds like he's a savant?

    At an rate, memory rooms are legitimate things. They're a very handy device for your memory capacity, because they're very effective at creating groups of objects, such as the 52 cards. The human mind can only remember about 5-7 objects without grouping them. That's why when you recite your phone number, you often group the first 3 and the last 4 digits. It's easier for you and everyone else to remember that way.

  • @tothefly really easy to do if you know how.

  • i dont understand casinos, surely the whole point of them is for players to bet their own money to win more money, surely it should be illegal for them to refuse bets from players just cause they are winning,

  • ok so whats the point of this? Yes counting cards is easy...but that doesn't at all explain why he hit a 16 vs a 6, not worthwhile in all but the worst decks for the player, and by doubling the 11 he showed that the count must have been positive. Did he bring in a cold deck? The only real explanation other than clever editing.

  • @waterpyramid haha dont worry, its my fault for bieng stupid, i didnt think it through

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  • @waterpyramid please please please please PLEASE jsut read some of the other comments, i have been told a million times. im sick of people telling me thiiiss ^^

  • if is so good why he do that in front of camera ? He get payed :)) but darren dont need money no ?

  • This is exactly how my mind works only i use file cabinets surrounded by no-thing-ness, how the F*ck did he make a mansion?!

  • you do realise if derren went to a third world country, he could play it out that hes a god sent from heaven or something. and they would beleive him

  • @toxic2k7 OR he would get burned alive cause he's the devil >)

  • @toxic2k7 well he went to USA and filmed one of his events 'messiah' (derren's personal favourite event) and they believed in him!.....fyi USA is at the top of the so called first world countries.

  • @toxic2k7 you have obviously been to so many third world countries.

  • @toxic2k7 Doesnt your country house scientology]? lol.

  • @toxic2k7 he doesnt have to go to a third world country he can make anyone he wants believe whatever he's saying he could make someone kill themselves if he wanted and everyone would think its suicide

  • @toxic2k7 Like Jesus did ?

  • @toxic2k7 Well put. It is nice to know that he won't play that guru card to human beings.

  • @toxic2k7 thats exactly what jesus did and he wouldnt need to be that smart because in his time people werent that smar

  • @Alishimwaah and you know that they weren't smart cause you're a good 2000 years old ?

  • @toxic2k7 good point :/

  • Derren is extremely inteligent. He isn't fake, as he doesnt blame it on straight magic. He uses psychology and his mind to work things out. Very intelligent indeed.

  • @Goldendroid I agree with you. It´s cut down to VERY simple facts. You can mind control people, and manipulative people... IF you know how to do it RIGHT! And very few people can. And Derren is pretty awesome...

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  • Bull shit

  • thanks, ive practised, time to rip off every casino in town, thanks derren brown

  • Am I crazy? Surely this skill or a similar kind of card counting skill is being used by people everywhere in a discrete way to get cash when they feel like it. Am I wrong?

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  • Oh yes, Darren Brown, the national famous Magician/Illusionist. Brown's trick is to get us to believe he's a normal successful person but he's actually an insane fifteen year old. I'm on to you Darren.

  • @goodmorninguk1 Its Derren

  • @Rookmang LOL ;)

  • I uploaded a video from one of Derren's shows from "Mind Control" , it makes you fall backwards on your chair :\ /watch?v=Yjdk4DyBoys

  • I <3 Derren

  • @THETatorTotsibles Wow you stayed up all night thinking up THAT original remark didn't you?

  • very clever man!!!!

  • surely counting cards is 1000000x easier...

  • @EroticSnow It's not easier. It's factual. This is just bullshit.

  • They were all like 'Aw he's scamming us yadda yadda yadda' and he even said 'I'm here to scam them' but in all honesty all he did was think logically. Stupid casino owners.

  • Hes banned from casinos cos counting cards is banned from casinos and he can count cards. Its not that hard to understand, plus theres no need for him to rinse casinos as hes already a millionaire.

  • @420falilv actually counting cards is not banned from casinos. Using any artificial aids to count cards is banned.

  • @Withnail1969 no in no casinos is attempting to count cards banned, however in all casions managing to actually count cards, whether or not your using aids is banned.

  • @9hello123 Counting cards is allowed in casinos, as long as you're doing it in your head. >.> Some Casinos have the right to ask you to leave but most do not.

  • @Azn1Nooby nope counting cards is allowed as long as you don't suceed. If you do it in your head and actually manage to do it all casinos have the right and will kick you out and report you to the police.

  • @9hello123 Counting Cards is very easy. You just have to be not drunk and can pay attention. It's always good to have a beer in your hand when you attempt to count cards. Also, counting cards is legal and you cannot go to jail for it. Some casinos, like I said before, have the right to ask you to leave if you're winning too much money.

  • oooh i love derren brown. :3

  • What a load of crap! It's just your muscles in your fingers pushing back to their natural position.

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  • The method of loci is genuine, but this is insane. To be able to picture all the objects and how many stickers are left on each one and keep track of all the cards... the pay-off would be worth it, but it would take a huge amount of concentration.

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  • The Casino's would ask him to leave because hes better than them?

    Typical...

  • correct me if im wrong but if he could do this dont you think he would be winning the lottery and rinsing casinos every day lol i smell bullshit

  • @franksy08 

    Yes you are wrong..

    a) he's banned from casino's !

    b) i dont believe he can use his memory skills to pick the winning lottery numbers every week!

    I smell BS, just not from Derren Brown... ;)

  • @c00t999 yes but he could still try to win the lottery if he can guess it on live tv and get them all right then surely he could get at least 4-5 numbers each week and cash in

  • @franksy08 You couldn't use this technique to win the lottery because that's completely random, but when it's 4 packs of cards, you can figure out which ones have been dealt and which ones are left. He's banned from casinos because he would totally 'rinse' them.

  • @franksy08 no, he's banned from all casinos and from entering the lottery.

  • @fremikeard he could easily get a friend to put the lottery on for him and then get the cash prize off them afterwards. Derren Brown is a lie end of

  • That is simply amazing.

  • this 'memory palace' system of card counting is not how card counting works. I'm calling bullshit on this.

    The 'memory palace' system is great, but not for this purpose. The cards are dealt too quickly, and there's no way you'd be able to keep up with this silly idea of red stickers on paintings.

  • I think you're right, it just doesn't seem humanly possible. Amazing how many people are ready to believe something so implausable....however, that does beg the question, how??

  • @theMAXILOPEZpsycho

    card-counting methods usually involve keeping a running total in your head so that you know when most of the high cards have been dealt and it's therefore favourable to bet. That's how the MIT students did it in Vegas. Having said that, Derren Brown seems to be having sucess beyond what they achieved.

  • as you say, the method he describes would only put the odds in his favor....that doesn't explain this kind of success. I'm pretty sure the method he describes is not whats at play here....however, I have no idea how this is done.

  • @dadadee100 - you sir, are a cunt =]

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  • how hard is it to bend a fucking spoon really

  • No body can remember that much

  • @dadadee100 yes they can.. dont make gay arse comments, especially gay arse comments that are wrong

  • @TheLongboardingLife Fuck off faggot lets see you try and remember all that

  • @dadadee100 WELL OBVIOUSLY HE DOES. ITS POSSIBLE IF YOU HAVE A BRAIN AND YOU STUDY SOMETHING LONG ENOUGH.

  • @dadadee100 aww arnt you a cute little mother fucking nazi, dont get so pissed off i didnt say i could remember it but its obviously do-able as he did goodbye nazi tell hitler lots of love freak :/

  • @TheLongboardingLife How am I a nazi? My god you must really be retarded if you think that, goodbye ratard and get a fucking life

  • @dadadee100

    You are a stupid human being. You reject the concept of books, therefore you are beneath most thinking people. Go watch TV, let Noel Edmonds show you how the world works.

  • @simplelife88393 Wtf is wrong with you people? I make 1 comment about how I find this hard to belive and I get three haters comments in only 30 minutes go get a fucking life

  • @dadadee100 google the memory palace technique thats how he does it its easy

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  • Extraordinary. But almost all casinos now use an automatic shuffling shoe now, so its imposable to track cards like this.

  • he does it in his mind

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  • @corpsemunger he does it in his mind

  • @corpsemunger LMAO! That's what I would probably needs to do too, Excuse me for 20 mins, I just need to go to my house and remove a few stickers :D