View Poll Results: Which can you do?

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  • Overhand

    13 86.67%
  • Riffle

    9 60.00%
  • Hindu

    2 13.33%
  • Faro

    3 20.00%
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Thread: Shuffling cards

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    'Gabby Hayes' big Bart's Friend Milhouse's Avatar
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    How do you shuffle a deck of cards?
    What's your favourite method?
    Anyone capable of one-handed shuffling?
    Any other interesting related stuff, please share

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    i can cut the deck one-handed but i don't know what you mean by one handed shuffle.

    i also don't know what 'hindu' and 'faro' are.

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    Riffle, apparently. I don't know what the other ones are, they aren't explained well enough in Wikipedia and I'm too lazy to go to Youtube.
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    I can shuffle cards like you normally would -- like how the dealers do in poker tables at casinos (at least the ones I've been to). But I don't know any of the terms so I can't be more specific.

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    now i can do them all the faro is the hardest but after like two mins practice its not so bad

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    I can do a overhand but still screw up most of the time.

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    I overhand, riffle, and faro. The amount of randomization for each one is different, but using them all together is the best way to ensure against rigging.

    EDIT: Besides automatic shufflers.
    Last edited by Tavrobel; 07-23-2007 at 07:12 PM.

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    I can only Hindu shuffle. Kind of.

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    i do the one that ends with the bridge. i'm much too lazy to look these up.

    i can cut the deck one-handed two different ways though. you'll hafta see it.

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    One handed shuffling is really difficult to learn. I think I shuffle overhand.

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    Alternating overhand and riffle works best for me. I'm doing more overhand these days because I broke my wrist and can't do the bridge, so if I riffle too much my cards will get bent up

    What are hindu and faro?

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    Overhand mostly, Riffle if I'm showing off (including the finishing cascade thing).

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    I tend to switch between Riffle, Overhand and Faro shuffling.
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    I am interested in card cheating and conjuring and I consider myself fairly well-versed in all techniques, except faro, which I haven't really studied.

    I can barely one hand riffle shuffle but it looks like crap

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    Rifle and Faro are similar and same with overhand and hindu. I can do them all but I prefer Rifle and Overhand. It is what I grew up doing so I am more comfortable with them. I like to air rifle and bridge. The noise is fun

    I am not great at the Faro because I don't care about perfection. I prefer the more randomization of inaccuracy and blah blah blah. I don't attempt perfection and stuff when playing cards.

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