The Overhand Shuffle for Playing Card Shuffling

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I'm Joe Marshall with expertvillage.com and today we are going to discuss shuffles and cuts. I like to talk about the proper way to do a overhand shuffle, why it is important to learn it as a magician and how you could actually be using it. The overhand shuffle is held the exact same way as you would to get into a riffle shuffle but you are only going to hold it sideways. Middle finger and ring finger on one side, thumb on the other enough press so the cards are not falling out. You are going to deal the cards into the hands as your thumb from the other hand deals off packets of cards. You will start by dealing off cards like so as you thumb comes down and takes them and you just carry on that action. Dealing the cards out until you are good to go. It is important to learn cause if you are dealing in a poker game you could actually control cards for example you could see that I have controlled the fives and the kings up here and then I also have the four, aces and tens also on top of the deck that I could be spreading out to my partners. The way that you want to do this is that it is a false overhand shuffle. A normal one you hold it the exact same way so the false one can't be recognized for the good. The good one looks identical to the false one. You just can't tell. You are going to hold a regular one your just overhand shuffle, thumb deals off. In this type of situation when you have cards controlled to the top of the deck you are going to deal off from the middle. So you keep all those cards on top and what you are going to do you are going to do something called a jog. You are going to take one card first and you are going to leave it there. That is going to mark the difference on the two halves of the deck that you are starting to shuffle and you are just going to leave it sticking out and you are going to continue your shuffles up here. As you come around you are going to make a break. So your break is actually right there. That separates into two halves. You are going to hold that break obviously not as wide as the way I'm demonstrating here you want to hold it in a lot closure once you practice. But in motion they are not going to be able to see it and basically what you do is you just re-overhand shuffle all the remainder of those cards until you get to the top of the deck again and you just throw that on top like it is the final shuffle. So you haven't done anything to the top portion of the packet and that is a false overhand shuffle.

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