Spectator gets winning Hand

46 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Spectator gets winning Hand
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jack Merlin Topping the Pack expose, helping spectator get a winning hand
 		1927/28
Merlin at the Card Table
10
Eddie Joseph A Quick Four-Ace Trick Aces "mixed" with twelve cards, four hands dealt, one gets the Aces
 		1942
Greater Card Tricks
26
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Stack It spectator stacks the hand while apparently losing the cards in the deck, as Rusduck
Related to Mar. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 55)
226
Stewart James, Russell "Rusduck" Duck Variation on Rusduck's Stack It
Inspired by Aug. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 66)
270
John Mulholland Dealing the Winning Hand spectator chooses either Bridge or Poker and magician can deal himself a winning hand (Bridge), or himself and spectator a winning hand (Poker)
 		1944
The Art of Illusion
56
Richard Segal The Sucker Poker Deal three Jacks are controlled for the spectator, magician gets a Royal Flush
 		1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
41
Matt Schulien Matt's Crazy Poker Deal spectator shuffles, performer deals five hands, third hand dealt openly from bottom, other hands shown first with some byplay, then third hand shown to be royal flush
 		1959
The Magic of Matt Schulien
99
Jerry K. Hartman Hope For The Best spectator thinks of highest card in the hand, then magician deals four of a kind, high-card mental force
Related toAlso published here 1973
Means & Ends
80
Jerry K. Hartman All Hands On Deck: a dishonest lecture on dishonesty gambling expose consisting of false overhand and riffle shuffles, false deals (second and bottom) and “switching”, for finale the magician shows that everyone got a great hand, outline of entire routine’s handling on p. 39
 		1974
Super Dupes
30
Roy Walton The Gambling Spectator solution to posed problem, stack that can be cut anywhere and a good poker hand can be dealt
Inspired by 1974
Necromancer (Vol. 2 No. 2)
1
John Bragoli Ace In the Hole
Feb. 1976
Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 6)
222
Nick Trost Mystic Five selection found with number five, then five hands dealt and spectator receives four Fives
 		1979
Impromptu Card Magic
5
Karl Fulves Liar's Poker spectator lies about his poker hand, in next deal he gets this hand, posed as problem
 		1980
Interlocutor (Issue 43)
171
Karl Fulves Spectator Aces spectator deals cards on aces, then deals out whole packet, aces are gathered in one packet and placed in spectator's pocket where they change into indifferent cards, aces reproduced from performer's pocket, spectator does almost everything
 		1982
Six Impromptu Card Tricks
20
Juan Tamariz Cortes Clasificadores stacking four Aces by cutting
 		1984
Magia Potagia — Volume III
25
Karl Fulves Speedo spectator choses a player by removing a small number of cards, this player gets the four Aces
 		1988
The Chronicles (Issue 31)
1371
Karl Fulves Auto Gambler spectator gets four-of-a-kind after weird matching selection procedure, self-working
 		1991
28 Card Tricks
20
Karl Fulves Draw Test sixteen-card poker, four players get four cards each
Related toVariations 1993
Rigmarole (Issue 2)
16
Jerry Mentzer A Poker Plot spectator deals poker hands, one from the bottom with the performer's back turned, he identified the bottom-dealt hand, also it's a royal flush
Inspired by 1993
Card File
70
Peter Duffie Ten Again Ten cards, spectator ends with winning hand (not ten card poker deal)
Inspired byAlso published here Mar. 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 7)
66
Jerry K. Hartman Changing Hands performer and spectator have Poker hands and each keep one card and swap the other four with each other, performer’s single card together with spectator’s four are all same color, spectator’s card with performer’s four make up a Straight Flush
Inspired by 1995
After Craft
185
Peter Duffie Backfire Poker Ten cards, spectator ends with winning hand (not ten card poker deal)
Inspired byAlso published here 1997
Effortless Card Magic
154
Al Mann Five Aces hand gets four aces and joker
 		1997
Mind Your Poker
21
Harold Lloyd Der Zuschauer als Falschspieler spectator loses Aces (by putting three cards on each and only cutting), then he deals the Aces into wanted hand, no-touch
 		1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 4 & 5)
181
R. Paul Wilson Fained Casualty spectator pockets a four-card poker hand, then this is used to complete a royal flush in the next deal
 		1999
Cyber Sessions
53
Karl Fulves Base Deal deck shuffled, two-handed game dealt, one hand clearly off the bottom, those are the Aces
 		2001
New Card Controls
92
Karl Fulves When Psychics Play Poker psychic vs. gambler, spectator riffle shuffles, psychic gets seven cards, gambler five, psychic finds two Aces and moves around some cards and wins
Also published here 2004
When Psychics Play Poker
61
Ron Bauer Second Finger Top Deal Jacks shuffled into deck, yet shown on top, then dealt to partner as fake false dealing demo
Inspired by 2004
Second Finger Top Deal
2
Karl Fulves When Psychics Play Poker psychic vs. gambler, spectator riffle shuffles, psychic gets seven cards, gambler five, psychic finds two Aces and moves around some cards and wins
Related toAlso published here 2004
Latter Day Secrets (Issue 9)
386
Benjamin Earl Playing the Odds spectator shuffles and deals themselves royal flush, thought-of card divined
Variations 2007
Seeing with Photo-Electric Eyes
10
Allan Slaight The Diligent Deck memorized deck stack which offers a couple of poker and gambling deals
Inspired by
  • New Pentagram, March 1976
 2008
Spins & Needles
59
Benjamin Earl The Gambling Lesson various games played, at the end spectator and performer each find four-of-a-kind
Inspired byVariations Jan. 2009
Gambit (Issue 1)
6
Nick Trost Pinochle Poker Deal uses Pinochle deck
 		2009
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 2
505
Karl Fulves New Deal Poker Kings cut into deck, two poker hands dealt, Aces and Kings, with previous selections as kicker cards
Related to 2010
Prolix (Issue 7)
443
Jason England, Allan Ackerman, Steve Mayhew The World's Greatest Card Cheat "Topsy Turvey Poker" is played, spectator riffle shuffles, his straight flush is completed with previously openly sleeved card
Inspired byAlso published here 2012
The Cardjurer
109
Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham, Ronald A. Wohl (Ravelli), Herb Zarrow Gilbreath's Second Principle Spectator shuffles the cards, deals out five hands, one of the hands is a good hand, but the hand of the imaginary partner gets a straight flush, uses ideas from Herb Zarrow and Ron Wohl
Related to
  • "U-shuffle Poker" (David Ben, Zarrow, A Lifetime of Magic)
Variations 		2012
Magical Mathematics
66
Karl Fulves Fields Effect player gets five Aces repeatedly
Inspired by
  • W. C. Fields film poker sequence
Related toVariations 		2012
Prolix (Issue 10)
667
Joseph Barry Beginner's Luck spectator first gets a flush in hearts, then a straight flush in spades
Inspired by 2014
Reverie
9
Nick Trost Deal Me In deck dealt into five hands and all cards are bad, cards dealt into chosen number of piles, then again into five and chosen hand wins
Related to 2015
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 5
1195
Nick Trost Revolving Poker two ten-card packets are placed face-to-face, spectator revolves packets as often as he likes and takes top cards to from a poker hand, reverse Gilbreath
Inspired by 2015
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 5
1242
Roberto Giobbi Lucky Thingamajig lucky cent presentation
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Jan 26)
30
Michael Skinner, Edward Marlo Skinner on Marlo's Poker Deal spectator deals himself the aces, bottom deal stacking, same as Marlo's really
Inspired byRelated to
  • Michael Skinner Private Tape (DVD, ca. 1988, edited by Richard Kaufman)
 2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Oct 24)
305
Nick Trost The Curse of Scotland twenty-five-card poker, ends with four Aces
Inspired by 2017
Subtle Card Creations — Volume 6
1405
Steve Reynolds Sharper's Fate after fair shuffling by spectator a two-handed game is dealt from a spot decided by a cut card, chosen winner receives a Royal Flush, faro
Inspired by 2020
Output (Issue 10)
8
Benjamin Earl Lucky Deal spectator deals himself his selection in a poker hand and his other cards complete a Royal Flush
 		2021
Inside Out
21
Allan Ackerman, Jason England, Steve Mayhew The World's Greatest Card Cheat "Topsy Turvey Poker" is played, spectator riffle shuffles, his straight flush is completed with previously openly sleeved card
Inspired byAlso published here 2024
All In — Volume 2
109