Learn the Overhand Shuffle for Playing Cards

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Hi! My name is Chris McKay with Expert Village.com and I am going to show you guys the overhand shuffle today. If you’d like to see more of my services as a magician in Los Angles or Cleveland, check on my website at www.mckaymagic.com. Anyway the overhand shuffle is probably the most basic shuffle that you can do with a deck of cards but it is also not quite legitimate because it’s very easy; it’s a control of cards using the overhand shuffle. So if you are playing in a real game of poker or anything I would not suggest simply using the overhand shuffle as the only shuffle that you use but this is what it looks like. Basically, you know a lot of people do this wrong. What you want to be doing is pulling off cards with your right thumb. A lot of people trying like go over the cards with their left hand which is very sloppy and sometimes cards come from the bottom of the stack, sometimes they come from the top but you really want to be pulling the cards from your left hand into your right hand using your thumb to gage how many cards you are getting, just like that. Let me explain the grips then; I guess that is a little more important if you’re just starting. You are going to switch in the kind of a weird grip, it’s kind of like a brittle grip here and then I am going to switch over into kind of a brittle grip with my left hand. I am just supporting the deck with my middle finger, my ring finger and my thumb on the other side and then in my right hand I am just turning my hand palm up and just pulling with my thumb and that’s how the shuffle works. Really, the right way of doing this is that you pull from the top. A lot of people will pull out the middle chunk and then shuffle off the top, part of the middle chunk; that might be hard to see. What I was doing is the right way of doing it. Just pulling off, taking the entire deck into the left hand and then pulling off the top chunks but what some people do is they pull out the middle chunk and then continue doing it. The reason you don’t want to pull out the middle chunk is because then you’re never shuffling the bottom cards. That 5 of hearts will stay there for ever if I keep pulling out the middle chunk and just shuffling these on top. See 5 of hearts is still there; that doesn’t actually shuffle the cards. So you want to pull off the top chunk into the right hand packet by packet just like that. So that’s the overhand shuffle.

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