2007 World Series of Poker
Some non magic related news. A group of about 30 of us played in the same weekly poker tournament for a couple of years. Sadly much of our group has disbanded. The great news is that two of my fellow players have made three cashes so far in the three and only three 2007 WSOP events they have entered and one of those players got a gold bracelet.
Look for event #28 on ESPN. Due to the incredible poker action, this particular event will be extended to 90 minutes instead of the usual half hour segments. Ending the war on hand number 148, Shankar Pillai takes down first place, gets his first Gold Bracelet and a cool $527,829 in cash. Congrats to our own Shankar Pillai for entering one event on a whim and making poker history. Fun news: after Phil Hellmuth busted out, Phil Ivy became Shankar's cheering section, telling him he is one of the best players he's ever seen & by far the best player remaining in that game. Ivy said Pillai would win and he was right. Shankar has 253 POY points so far. Good luck in the Main Event. You'll need it. There's going to be an unimaginable amount of players this year.
Also deserving honorable mention, our own Josh Olechnowski! Event #24, out in 17th place in but still in the money. He cashes for $6,514 out lasting the WPT's host Mike Sexton. Josh cashs once more in event #37. He placed 36 for $6541.00 (not sure of the name players in this event yet. Check www.pokernews.com if you are interested). He has 133 POY points so far. Josh will play a few more events this season. So far he's two for two. That's astonishing! More power to ya buddy.
Some of the rest of us, myself included will give it a go playing in a few events next season. We have to. So watch out boys. You're not that wonderfull (yes you are, you took your shot and made it); I've beaten, we've beaten you before. But you have also beaten us before.
Well this wouldn't be a magic blog, without some magic in here somewhere. So here are some great products we have related to poker, (some loosly) for magicians, cheats & gamblers. Just paste the names of the products into our search box at www.ronjo.com for pics and more information. Or type in Gamble or Poker in your search for other fine items!
Poker Chip Polka
A series of amazing color changes and transpositions...Two poker chips are shown, one black and one white. One chip is held in each hand. The chips transpose from hand to hand. Just when the spectators think they have it figured out, the chips suddenly change into bright colors on all sides.
Easy to do. No skill required.
Poker Chip Polka comes with 2 poker chips, gimmicks, complete instructions with easy routine.
CD Poker from Vernet Magic
The performer explains that he has a new computer program that allows him to win every time in poker without even using a computer. The performer then shows a CD that has ten face cards printed on one side, and card backs on the other. The performer hands a spectator five paper clips and the CD explaining that the spectator will pick out the performer's hand by clipping any five facedown cards and the remaining cards will be the spectator's hand. The performer then asks the spectator to turn the CD face up showing the five clipped cards to be the winning hand!!
Matrix Poker - Wakeling & Steinmeyer
A spectator - completely freely, without any undue influence from the magician - selects four of the number cards. The values on the cards are added, to arrive at a value. Surprisingly, despite the completely free selection, the magician has predicted the total exactly! The very same amount the spectator selected is found inside the coin purse. But, there's more. When the number cards are flipped over, four playing cards are on the reverse. The magician predicted these cards, too! Their values were permanently printed on the coin purse all along! The trick requires no sleight of hand. It works every time, all the time. Matrix Poker comes complete with specially printed cards (from the US Playing Card Company), custom-manufactured coin purse, illustrated, detailed instructions and specially printed bills. From the minds of Jim Steinmeyer and Alan Wakeling comes a very strange game.
The rules are very simple. So simple, that they're printed on a coin purse, which the magician displays. Along with the purse, the magician lays out 16 cards on the table. Each card has a monetary value printed on it.
A red 25 cent poker chip magically turns into a green 50 cent chip. The spectators try to guess the secret, but to their surprise, the chip becomes a real Half Dollar!
Comes complete with gimmicked half dollar, instructions and routine.
The Official Poker Chip Tricks DVD vol. 1 by Rich Ferguson
Multiple Business and Entertainment Award winner Rich Ferguson is known around the world for his originality and unique approach to cards and poker chips. This DVD is packed with 20 of the hottest stunts and tricks you have seen on television or at a poker game - all explained in detail by Rich! Also included are two effects by Rich that have never been revealed to the public - until NOW! Stunts Included:
| The magician displays three cards-one with a blue spot and two which have red spots. He explains that the cards are used to play a game of chance, the object being to keep track of the card with the blue spot. If you find the blue card you win a dollar, but if you're wrong then you owe a dollar. he and the spectators will He goes on to relate how he was once taken by the game and shows how quickly he lost three dollars. Every time he thought he had the blue card it ended up being the red! Frustrated, he accused the man of not even having a blue card in his hands, but when it was shown on the bottom he lost another dollar! Trying to catch the hustler again, he stated that if the card was on the bottom it couldn't possibly be on top, but was wrong again and lost another dollar! In a last ditch effort he guessed that it couldn't be the center card, but once again lost another dollar! His running total was now up to six dollars. Continuing, the performer tells how he told the hustler that he thought more than three cards were being used, but was once again proven wrong and he lost another dollar! Being the gambler he is, he tried one more time, double or nothing. The hustler clearly showed one card with a red spot, a second card with a blue spot and stated all the magician had to do was guess the color of the third card. Red, right? Wrong again-the card isn't red or blue, but a surprise card no one will expect! Comes complete with the three necessary cards printed on Bicycle stock and detailed instructions. |
Gambler's Wildest Dream by Reed McClintock
A trick from the pocket of Reed McClintock!
Using simple notion to create great commotions, Reed McClintock has created Gambler's Wildest Dream to do just that!
It is generally understood by the mass population that gamblers cheat. This routine, even though labeled as an expose revealing gambling's biggest secrets, will take your audience down the garden path only to have them find out they have just walked into a tsunami.
Effect
Seven cards are pulled out of a wallet. Six are seen to be the same and one indifferent. Three cards are set down on the table while four are seen in your hand. A palming of a card reveals that no card was really palmed, but four cards have now appeared on the table. Six of the cards are now shown to have changed into the indifferent card.
A surprise ending so startling it will leave them speechless.
Catapulting your magic to the next level! Internationally acclaimed magician Reed McClintock will not only have you believing in the power of magic, but in the power of magical performance as well. Whether you are young or old, Reed's latest innovations are a must have for your repertoire. Reed McClintock's audience acclaim can be yours. This product contains everything necessary to go out and perform WHAT LOOKS LIKE REAL MAGIC.
Heads Or Tails by Gary Kosnitzky
From the book's introduction:
"Imagine being able to toss a spinning coin high up in the air and possess the uncanny ability to predict whether it will land on heads or tails side up. Are you able to foretell the future? What if you can toss a coin in the air and make it land face up on any side the spectator wishes. You may even let the spectator catch the coin themselves. Do you have super human powers? My aim in authoring this treatise is to explain and teach you how to do just that. I call this method of tossing a coin so that you have complete control over its outcome, the Controlled Coin Toss.
The act of tossing or also known as flipping a coin to make a determination has been around for well over a thousand years. The ancient Romans played a game called "navia aut caput" (ship or head). Most likely it was named this because ancient Roman coins usually had a ship on one side and the profile of the head of an Emperor on the other side. I would not be surprised if there was a Toga-clad gambler back then who was employing the Controlled Coin Toss to cheat at this game. The origins of this method to control the outcome of a coin toss are shrouded in obscurity by the mists of time. Only a small number of Mathematicians, Gamblers, and Magicians have any knowledge of this technique. Fewer yet can actually do it well. It is really not very difficult to do once you develop the knack. Like anything worthwhile mastering it will require some practice."
- Gary Kosnitzky
Done well, the Controlled Coin Toss is simply mind boggling! While the gambling possibilities are obvious, the magic routine possibilities are virtually endless! Learn how to perform and perfect this awesome trick today!
Weapons of a Card Shark by Jeff Wessmiller
Learn how to take a clean fully shuffled deck, and deal yourself the winning hand. No marks, No trick decks. Deck is handed to you completely random. No joke! Ever wonder how cheats really do their thing? Think it's about marked cards or gimmicks? Think again. This video is the first of it's kind to truly expose underground cheating techniques in action today. Several of the moves on this video have NEVER been seen before anywhere! Not to mention this video is full of brand new material invented by Jeff Wessmiller himself. Includes live game footage of the cheat in action THE MOVES: over 90 minutes all on one DVD! False Shuffles: Blind Overhand Shuffle, Controlling Top Card, Controlling Bottom Card, Blind Over-Under Shuffle, Over-Under Combo, Top Card Riffle Control, Top Stock Short Shuffle, Push-Through Shuffle, Zarrow Shuffle, Spider Shuffle. False Cuts: Scrape Cut, False Strip,Slip Cut, Jigsaw Cut, Up-the-ladder. Stacking: Lay Stack, Overhand Stack, J.W. Stack,Riffle Stacking, Cold Stacking, Double Duke. Hopping the Deck: Cellar Keep, Classic Pass Tap Pass, Thumb-lick Pass, Wess Pass, Table Pass 1, Table Pass 2. Glimpses: Bubble Peek,Heel Glimpse, Gamblers Glimpse, Shiner Glimpse. False Dealing: Bottom Deal, Stud Bottom Deal,Flop Bottom Deal, Cigar Bottom Deal, Second Deal, Push Off Second Deal. Mucking: Chopping Cards Out, Top Palm Chopping, Gamblers Palm Chopping, Clip Palm Chopping, Two Handed Muck, One Handed Muck, Peel Muck, Palm In, Palm Out Muck. Deck Switches: Cold Deck Switch, Sting Cold Deck Switch, Bold and Cold Deck Switch. Stampede Second - Martin Lewis A professional routine - 5 minutes of entertaining close up magic that's simple to do and has a remarkable, visual climax. Trick includes holographic glasses, specially prepared cards, envelope and complete instructions. Magic with a gambling theme. This routine incorporates two separate effects. In the first you claim to find the spectators card form a "marked" deck by wearing special virtual light specs. Oddly everyone but you can see the marked card plainly. When you remove the glasses it's too late - the mark has disappeared. You then demonstrate a second deal to find another card, but not any old second deal, and impossible one... from under a postage stamp.
Ultimate Marked Deck
the Ultimate is the marked deck you have been dreaming of! "The ultimate marked deck is the best marked deck presently available to magicians. It strikes the perfect balance between being easy to read and being difficult to detect." - Darwin ORTIZUntil next time,
Manufactured in "Rider Back 808-R" Bicycle Cards by the United States Playing Cards Company.
This is the marked deck you have been waiting for!
- Identify any card without seeing its face.
- Read the identifiers of the cards directly without having to mark the card yourself.
- Yes, No codes, No symbol to interpret, No marking system to learn. - Use genuine "Rider Back 808-R" Bicycle Cards without having to mark the cards yourself
- Hand out the deck without fear of detection.
- Instant location and direct reading of the marks.
All the qualities of the ideal marked deck at long last brought together in the Ultimate Marked Deck.
In Red or Blue!
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