How to Do a Table Shuffle with a Deck of Playing Cards

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Hi! This is Chris McKay with Expert Village.com. I am going to show you guys how to do a table riffle shuffle today. If you’d like to learn more about my services as a magician. you can visit my website at www.mckaymagic.com. Anyway, this is a table riffle shuffle. Now if you go into you know play a legitimate game poker or if you’re shuffling for casinos or for some sort of a charity event, doing this kind of shuffle isn’t going to cut it because it exposes too many cards. People get to see the bottom card as you are doing this, they can see that card and people can even catch glimpse of the cards in between as you’re shuffling and such. So you want to be able to do a table riffle shuffle and obviously a table riffle shuffle requires that there is table or surface to shuffle on and this is what a table riffle shuffle looks like. This is what it looks like closed; that is called a closed and square them up and this is called open. It’s all preference really whether you do a closed or opened. You’ll probably see most people in Casinos and stuff do a close; it just gives a little more cover for the cards. As you can see when I am doing the shuffle from the front angle there is no way to see any cards. There is absolutely no way, here is how it works. You’ve got the cards oriented in this direction like that and you are going to cut off a chunk with your right hand, the top chunk with your right hand and you are holding the cards now between again your fingertips and your thumb but instead of this way, you’re holding them this way. So you are actually bending the cards in the opposite direction we were before and in fact I don’t put my pointers in this side. I just keep them straight on top in order to create the tension and in fact if your are doing it in the open manner it really doesn’t require any tension at all, you can just kind of let them fall together. So basically it’s just like a riffle shuffle in the hands but you are riffling them together onto the table. I don’t know how to explain it but if you look really closely I am sure you can see what’s going on here, I’m just creating tension by pushing down with my pointer finger and then I am riffling off cards with my thumbs and I am letting just the corners intersect here, you see just the corners are intersecting, so once the corners are intersected and overlapping I can go ahead and square the rest of the deck together and I do this little squaring thing… this squaring action just because it really proves that the cards are legitimately squared together so that is something you can do shuffling and then this is the squaring action sort of you just go on with your fingers and its kind of wiping across the corners. So anyway that’s how to do a table riffle shuffle, enjoy it.

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