How to win at poker

A mathematical poker trick, to make you pick the losing hand.

My shuffle to put the queen on top of the deck was quite unsubtle. The queen was on the bottom, I moved the cards about and then put the queen on top.

How to force the queen: Put two cards down, one of which is the queen, and ask them to touch a card. If they pick the queen that is their card, and you continue the trick allowing the volunteer to pick their cards. If they don't pick the queen then they have picked your card, and you can continue the trick with the volunteer picking your cards.

Another way will be to leave the Queen to the end. Put all ten cards on the table, some face up, some face down. The Queen will need to be face up. Take it in turns to pick, but you choose first. If not chosen earlier, the Queen will be the last card which your opponent will have to take.

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[michaelgrella]

that's not the card I picked, LOL

[singingbanana]

@michaelgrella Congratulations, you have outwitted a recorded video.

[sidchuownz]

Ricky Jay used this card trick before, and his presentation was amazing.

[singingbanana]

@sidchuownz Yup. i didn't do much on presentation here, you can really make it look good.

[prepkiller69]

i didnt pick the queen so it u would have lost

[singingbanana]

You are such a winner. Well done.

[Tranquilance]

I think a good way to force the queen on them would be to choose triplets of cards that are all lower than the queen, for example 4,7 and 9, if the queen comes up early they are likely to pick it up because it is high.

[toucheJSHAYdynasty]

what? there is a 50/50 chance of this actually working....

[bashfulbrother]

This is all very interesting, but I have never played a hand of poker where the dealer allows me to pick my cards.

This may work for 10 cards, but the odds of knowing the cards that you don't see are 52:1 for each card.

You are not showing anything about winning at poker. All you are doing is showing probabilities for a set of 10 with 3 sub sets.

No offense dude but this doesn't have anything to do with winning at poker.

[sbondra]

dumb

[TheBlackPawn24]

nice trick, but I have no idea how to force the queen on my opponent (when it is not recorded XD)

[LL7701]

Has lost all money! Help, who can! Help! Z184544382241

[galeno07]

"just enough for 2 hands of Pouka"

I`m gonna practice my english accent

[xXextraslastaXx]

@xXextraslastaXx Sorry, I mistaked, all the combinations (5 cards and 5 cards) are 504 = 252*2 = 10*9*8*7*6/(5*4*3*2*1)*2. Is that true? :)

[PattyObrien616]

@m4dn3s59595 you take the 52 cards pick out 3 aces, kings, and 7s, and a queen then throw the other cards out.

[HappyMemoryXD]

Never play poker with these 3 following people:

Cheaters

Magicians

Mathematicians