Cheating At Cards
Hello friends,
The items I am going to tell you about today make for wonderful card magic.
They are intended for entertainment and magical purposes only.
There are some individuals who would use these materials for cheating at cards. We don't condone cheating, not one bit. But if you ever find yourself in a card game, you can educate yourself on what to look for if you suspect potential cheaters.
Marked Decks:
We carry several pre made marked decks as well as material to mark your own decks. These range in price as well as deceptiveness. I'll explain the types to you below.
1. The Eureka Deck has two magic secrets one would be the marked back designs, the other being what is known as a Stripper Deck. The Eureka deck, is a novice deck. The marks are easy to read by the trained eye, but are meant for locating one selected card at a time. It would be very difficult to read whole cards at a poker table. Not to mention the unique back design may be suspect. If you are aware of the rifle test, a method to find marked cards, this deck will not pass. These decks are meant for beginners in card magic and not something a professional cheat would use as a tool. This is the only marked deck that we carry that is also a Stripper Deck. The above link is to a professional Stripper Deck in Bicycle Brand and you can perform many effects that would take years of practice using a Stripper Deck without any hard work.
2. 3-D Playing Cards
This is a deck that you have to train your eyes to see the marks. Once you learn how to view and to alter your depth perception, you will see clear as day in 3-D the Rank & Suit in two places covering 2/3 of the card. The image will appear only when viewing them when the cars backs are vertical to your face. These stereogram cards are the same as the big posters and the calendars that were all over the malls in the mid 1990's. The size makes them harder to see, but for magic (one selection at a time) is what they are intended for. In a cheating scenario, these cards could come in handy from time to time if you get a glimpse of one or two cards now and again. These are exceptionally deceptive and no one will accidentally find any marks. These card have been examined by casino personal and magicians who could not find the identifying marks and they were told they were marked before hand. Because of the nature of the hidden stereo image, each back design is not identical. However, this will go unnoticed by everyone and the visible differences do look random, like a print error if someone is really looking hard. Give the deck a rifle test will reveal these differences but will not give any insight to marking patterns.
3. The Boris Wild Marked Deck vs. The Ultimate Marked Deck
Both the Boris Deck & The Ultimate Marked Deck have been printed by the United States Playing Card Company. The Boris Wild Marked Deck came out first. Originally a book of magic routines (now out of print) supplied with transfer material to mark your own decks. This deck has the markings right in front of your face and Hidden In Plain Sight. This deck is meant for the professional card magician. If used for cheating purposes, you could easily read an entire table of whole cards at any time, however the marks are visible to the naked eye, so you can't overuse the technique or you will cause concern. The power to be used maybe once or twice in a night when the time is right. The same viewing and using principles goes for the Ultimate Marked Deck. Both decks are printed blatantly. In fact so blatant that anyone who was looking for it would find it.
I prefer the Ultimate Marked Deck over the Boris Deck. The Boris Deck you need to view the marks in different areas of the back design. The area of location, lets you know the suit, but your eyes are moving up & down to spot it. With the Ultimate Marked Deck, each card is marked in the same place, but you are aware of the rank & suit instantly. With Boris, you will always know the rank after you locate the position and to know the suit you have to remember that position. Marked in a similar fashion, see also Ted Lesley's Marked Jumbo Deck w/book.
I was unaware of the riffle test when I first saw a hand marked version similar to these many years ago. I could not see the mark, no matter how hard I looked. I was stunned when I finally noticed the card value after quite a while. These will not pass the riffle.
4. Luminous Shade Marking Kit
Now were are getting into the good stuff. This is professional stuff. No one will see the marks you apply. No matter how hard they look unless they view the back of the card with red contact lenses or a red filter (secretly hidden on the inside of your sunglasses). Next time you are playing poker with a red deck and you've got guys around you winning who are wearing sunglasses, consider what they might have behind the shades! 100% deceptive.
5. Juice Marked Decks
We carry two formulas of juice. For $25.00 you can get the Juice Card Marking Kit. This set up is for red decks only and while you get several times more of the formula than the professional version, you will waste more cards marking them as the "juice" will often ruin card stock or appear too dark. Once learned however it works pretty good. This stuff here is the real deal, the Juice Marking Fluid Kit. More than four times the cost and for less formula but this stuff works on red or blue cards and you get enough to mark 25 decks of cards and it won't destroy cards when applying it. Imagine having a spectator select any card from a deck they shuffled and while you are standing 15 feet away from them, reveal the card. And then repeat it with another card! Juice is a marking liquid that can only be seen by a trained eye. It s easiest to see the marks from far away. It is very hard to see them up close. Another way to see the marks is as cards are being dealt, just as they are coming to a stop, a flash may be seen just for a split second, enough for you to identify the cards. Juice does not need a special lens to see. Professional card cheats make their decks light or dark depending on the type of room they are playing in. Often bringing light meters into the room before hand to determine how to apply the juice so they have optimum viewing conditions and make the risk of someone else spotting the marks very minimal. When you are a master at seeing juice, the amount you put on the and the length of time the juice is on te card before you wipe it away will become less and less, making these marks so hard to see, that accidental discovery is impossible. On the odd chance anyone sees something, it will be so fleeting and it will appear as if the lighting reflected off the back of the card in a certain way and it will not been seen again (because the card has stopped moving or their eyes moved away and then back). 95% deceptive.
6. Daub
This stuff is really dangerous. Cards marked with Daub are generally marked while the cards are in play! And the marks wear out overtime or you can "unmark" them when you get a hold of them again. All the evidence will be completely gone. Daub Professional Marking System comes with marking material for red and blue decks. The colored Daub is inside two small metal cups, smaller than a penny and easily hidden in your pocket. Touch the correct color Daub with your finger and run your finger over a specific area of a card. EX: Center line for an Ace. 99% deceptive as long as you keep it to a minimum.
7. Face Marked Deck
Here is a make shift marked deck you can make at home. The type of marking used here uses your sense of touch and not your sense of sight. Take a razor blade and gently slice marks in the hair lines of the Kings, Queens & Jacks. As you are dealing you will feel if any cards have these slices in the hair patterns. While you won't know the rank or suit, you'll know who got dealt a court card. 99% deceptive.
Here's a few other things we offer for your consideration.
Marked For Life by Kirk Charles
Expert At The Card Table by S.W. Erdanase
Billion Dollar Bunko by Simon Lovell
Unreal Work by Jason England & R. Paul Wilson
Weapons Of A Card Shark by Jeff Wessmiller
That's enough for today.
Thanks for reading!
Until tomorrow,
Pete
The items I am going to tell you about today make for wonderful card magic.
They are intended for entertainment and magical purposes only.
There are some individuals who would use these materials for cheating at cards. We don't condone cheating, not one bit. But if you ever find yourself in a card game, you can educate yourself on what to look for if you suspect potential cheaters.
Marked Decks:
We carry several pre made marked decks as well as material to mark your own decks. These range in price as well as deceptiveness. I'll explain the types to you below.
1. The Eureka Deck has two magic secrets one would be the marked back designs, the other being what is known as a Stripper Deck. The Eureka deck, is a novice deck. The marks are easy to read by the trained eye, but are meant for locating one selected card at a time. It would be very difficult to read whole cards at a poker table. Not to mention the unique back design may be suspect. If you are aware of the rifle test, a method to find marked cards, this deck will not pass. These decks are meant for beginners in card magic and not something a professional cheat would use as a tool. This is the only marked deck that we carry that is also a Stripper Deck. The above link is to a professional Stripper Deck in Bicycle Brand and you can perform many effects that would take years of practice using a Stripper Deck without any hard work.
2. 3-D Playing Cards
This is a deck that you have to train your eyes to see the marks. Once you learn how to view and to alter your depth perception, you will see clear as day in 3-D the Rank & Suit in two places covering 2/3 of the card. The image will appear only when viewing them when the cars backs are vertical to your face. These stereogram cards are the same as the big posters and the calendars that were all over the malls in the mid 1990's. The size makes them harder to see, but for magic (one selection at a time) is what they are intended for. In a cheating scenario, these cards could come in handy from time to time if you get a glimpse of one or two cards now and again. These are exceptionally deceptive and no one will accidentally find any marks. These card have been examined by casino personal and magicians who could not find the identifying marks and they were told they were marked before hand. Because of the nature of the hidden stereo image, each back design is not identical. However, this will go unnoticed by everyone and the visible differences do look random, like a print error if someone is really looking hard. Give the deck a rifle test will reveal these differences but will not give any insight to marking patterns.
3. The Boris Wild Marked Deck vs. The Ultimate Marked Deck
Both the Boris Deck & The Ultimate Marked Deck have been printed by the United States Playing Card Company. The Boris Wild Marked Deck came out first. Originally a book of magic routines (now out of print) supplied with transfer material to mark your own decks. This deck has the markings right in front of your face and Hidden In Plain Sight. This deck is meant for the professional card magician. If used for cheating purposes, you could easily read an entire table of whole cards at any time, however the marks are visible to the naked eye, so you can't overuse the technique or you will cause concern. The power to be used maybe once or twice in a night when the time is right. The same viewing and using principles goes for the Ultimate Marked Deck. Both decks are printed blatantly. In fact so blatant that anyone who was looking for it would find it.
I prefer the Ultimate Marked Deck over the Boris Deck. The Boris Deck you need to view the marks in different areas of the back design. The area of location, lets you know the suit, but your eyes are moving up & down to spot it. With the Ultimate Marked Deck, each card is marked in the same place, but you are aware of the rank & suit instantly. With Boris, you will always know the rank after you locate the position and to know the suit you have to remember that position. Marked in a similar fashion, see also Ted Lesley's Marked Jumbo Deck w/book.
I was unaware of the riffle test when I first saw a hand marked version similar to these many years ago. I could not see the mark, no matter how hard I looked. I was stunned when I finally noticed the card value after quite a while. These will not pass the riffle.
4. Luminous Shade Marking Kit
Now were are getting into the good stuff. This is professional stuff. No one will see the marks you apply. No matter how hard they look unless they view the back of the card with red contact lenses or a red filter (secretly hidden on the inside of your sunglasses). Next time you are playing poker with a red deck and you've got guys around you winning who are wearing sunglasses, consider what they might have behind the shades! 100% deceptive.
5. Juice Marked Decks
We carry two formulas of juice. For $25.00 you can get the Juice Card Marking Kit. This set up is for red decks only and while you get several times more of the formula than the professional version, you will waste more cards marking them as the "juice" will often ruin card stock or appear too dark. Once learned however it works pretty good. This stuff here is the real deal, the Juice Marking Fluid Kit. More than four times the cost and for less formula but this stuff works on red or blue cards and you get enough to mark 25 decks of cards and it won't destroy cards when applying it. Imagine having a spectator select any card from a deck they shuffled and while you are standing 15 feet away from them, reveal the card. And then repeat it with another card! Juice is a marking liquid that can only be seen by a trained eye. It s easiest to see the marks from far away. It is very hard to see them up close. Another way to see the marks is as cards are being dealt, just as they are coming to a stop, a flash may be seen just for a split second, enough for you to identify the cards. Juice does not need a special lens to see. Professional card cheats make their decks light or dark depending on the type of room they are playing in. Often bringing light meters into the room before hand to determine how to apply the juice so they have optimum viewing conditions and make the risk of someone else spotting the marks very minimal. When you are a master at seeing juice, the amount you put on the and the length of time the juice is on te card before you wipe it away will become less and less, making these marks so hard to see, that accidental discovery is impossible. On the odd chance anyone sees something, it will be so fleeting and it will appear as if the lighting reflected off the back of the card in a certain way and it will not been seen again (because the card has stopped moving or their eyes moved away and then back). 95% deceptive.
6. Daub
This stuff is really dangerous. Cards marked with Daub are generally marked while the cards are in play! And the marks wear out overtime or you can "unmark" them when you get a hold of them again. All the evidence will be completely gone. Daub Professional Marking System comes with marking material for red and blue decks. The colored Daub is inside two small metal cups, smaller than a penny and easily hidden in your pocket. Touch the correct color Daub with your finger and run your finger over a specific area of a card. EX: Center line for an Ace. 99% deceptive as long as you keep it to a minimum.
7. Face Marked Deck
Here is a make shift marked deck you can make at home. The type of marking used here uses your sense of touch and not your sense of sight. Take a razor blade and gently slice marks in the hair lines of the Kings, Queens & Jacks. As you are dealing you will feel if any cards have these slices in the hair patterns. While you won't know the rank or suit, you'll know who got dealt a court card. 99% deceptive.
Here's a few other things we offer for your consideration.
Marked For Life by Kirk Charles
Expert At The Card Table by S.W. Erdanase
Billion Dollar Bunko by Simon Lovell
Unreal Work by Jason England & R. Paul Wilson
Weapons Of A Card Shark by Jeff Wessmiller
That's enough for today.
Thanks for reading!
Until tomorrow,
Pete
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