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How To: Count cards in Blackjack easily

So how does a card counter keep track of the cards in blackjack? While there are many different systems and variations, counting cards is usually as simple as adding and subtracting the number 1. Subtract one when a high card is dealt and add one when a low card is dealt. The greater the count, the more high cards in the shoe, and the more high cards in the deck, the greater the counting edge for the player.

How To: Do a prediction card trick

Learn a unique prediction card trick to impress your friends. Items needed: a deck of cards (with the box), a pen and a piece of paper. Memorize and place 3 cards inside the box before you begin the trick. Make your spectators inspect or shuffle the remaining cards. Place the remaining cards inside the box and make sure your audience does not see the hidden ones inside. Tell your audience that you will make a prediction but do not disclose the number of cards you'll be predicting. Write down ...

How To: Perform a "one face up" false cut card flourish

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to perform a "one face up" false cut card flourish. A card flourish is something a magician uses, a technique for handling playing cards, mostly during magic card tricks. Is it magic though? No, just a little sleight of hand a fancy showmanship. See how to do the OFU (one face up) false cut.

How To: Perform the holy spit card trick

Impress all of your friends with some card magic, or as others like to say, card manipulation or card trick. You don't need to be a magician to learn the illusion of magic with a deck of playing cards. See for yourself how easy it is to learn... watch this video tutorial to see how to perform the holy spit card trick, where you lick your fingers and wet the bottom card of the deck to reveal the spectators card in any trick.

How To: Perform the three-card monte throw

The one card trick that every street magician or street hustler needs to know is 3 Card Monte. With the help of this video tutorial, you'll see exactly how to perform the three-card monte throw. There is no real magic here, it's all just a sleight of hand, which is needed for any magic card trick.

How To: Use business card examples in Microsoft Word: Mac 2008

Need to make a homemade business card for you new company. Maybe you're about to take freelancing to the next level, a more professional level. Well, Word 2008 for Mac allows you to make your very own, personal business cards, and they give you tons of pre-formatted templates to choose from. You just have to supply the ink and paper. The Microsoft Office for Mac team shows you just how to find and use business card templates in this how-to video.

How To: Perform the "Metamorphosis" card trick

Got a deck of standard playing cards? Looking for your next great illusion? Prefer that it be Kafkaesque? Look no further. In this free video magic lesson, you'll learn how perform the "Metamorphosis" card trick. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown, and to get started impressing your friends and family with this great trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.

How To: Perform the "Serenade of the Kings" card trick

Got a deck of standard playing cards? Looking for your next great illusion? Look no further. In this free video magic lesson, you'll learn how perform the "Serenade of the Kings" card trick. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick, and to get started using it to impress your friends and family, watch this prestidigitator's guide.

How To: Perform a perfect reverse card trick

Card tricks can be, well, tricky. It requires an eager mind, quick hands, and patience to perform some of these cool illusions. This particular magic trick is one that is perfect for any beginner starting out and takes a short amount of time to perfect. Check out the tutorial above to find out how to perform a perfect reverse card trick. Good luck and enjoy!

How To: Send & Receive Apple Pay Cash via Messages on Your iPhone

You can send and receive money from your iPhone using Venmo, Square Cash, Facebook Messenger, and even Snapchat. There's also Zelle, which offers quick-pay solutions in major banking apps such as Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo. However, Apple has a built-in system to transfer money, with person-to-person payments being available in the Messages app ever since iOS 11.2.

How To: Do the "Three Aces" card trick

This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do the "Three Aces" card trick. For this trick you need a deck of cards and you shuffle it nicely. Then you flip the deck and reveal the center part of the card and say it is the ace of hearts. The actual card is the 3 of hearts. Place this card face down on the table. You repeat this process and similarly take out a clubs and diamonds card. Then you perform a magic gesture and say all three car...

How To: Explain a Tarot card reading with Peter John

In this tutorial, we learn how to use Tarot cards and perform readings with Peter John. When you start to learn how to read cards to clients, you will first lay the cards out on the table. Then, the person who you are reading to will choose the cards from the pile. Depending on the card that they choose, you will read to them the description of what this card means. Then, you will delve deeper to tell them how it tells about their life and what their future will hold. After they are finished ...

How to Do card tricks: "Four Cards" trick

In this video, we learn how to do card tricks: "Four Cards" trick. First grab a regular deck of card and double stick tape. Take any of the aces and place an inch of the double stick tape on the back of it. Put this on the top of the deck and the other aces on top of this one. Start off where the person pulls out the deck, then you mix it up keeping the four aces on top. Next, have them pick a card and when they are showing it to everyone, take the card and have them put it on top of the aces...

How To: Explain Tarot cards & reading with Peter John

Peter John teaches us how to explain Tarot cards & reading with Peter John. Tarot cards come from the playing cards era and there are many different types of tarot cards on the market. These work by the person that picks the specific cards. When someone picks a certain type of card, this will tell something about themselves or what is going to happen in their future. The larger cards are harder to use and the smaller are more frequently used. Some tarot cards will explain what they mean on th...

How To: Do the "Quick as a Wink" card trick

There is more than one version of the Quick as a Wink card trick. This version begins with the deck of cards in the box, but the cards will need to be set up in advance. Put the 2 black sixes on top and the 2 red sixes on the bottom. You will leave the card that will be left in the visible. When you remove the cards from the box, press on the sides, in order to bow the box, which will enable you to pull all of the cards out except the one that you want to leave. Take the top 2 cards off the d...

How To: Do the Siva count card trick

In order to do the Siva count card trick, you will need a deck of cards. You will need the four kings and one ace. Place the kings facing upwards and the ace facing down. Remove the top card from the deck. Flex the cards. Peel back the bottom card with one hand. You are taking 3 cards off as if they are only 1 card. Remove the bottom card and place it on the top. The goal is to count the cards while keeping one of the cards hidden. When you count them you will need to block push the ace around.

How To: Make a card levitate

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a card levitate. To start, you will need a regular card with a piece of plastic stuck to the front of it where it cannot be seen. Cut the plastic to the exact length of the card, then use magician's wax to stick it onto the card in the middle. Now, use your thumb on the hand you hold the card on to squeeze the plastic on the card up. This will make it look like the card is levitating into thin air, when really you are just slyly pushing the plastic on th...

How To: Perform the color change card trick

In this video, we learn how to perform a color changing card trick. To do this, you need to take a card and put it in the palm of your hand. If your hands are smaller, use smaller cards than poker size cards. Now, bring everyone's attention to the deck of cards that's in your opposite hand. Bring the hand with the card in it over the deck in the other hand, and quickly replace it, so they think it magically changed what kind of card was in your hand. Make sure they can't see the card in your ...

How To: Force cards when performing card tricks

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to force cards. Card forcing is when it looks like the users has a free selection of cards, but in reality the magician has predetermined a card to be selected. The force taught in this video is the cross cut force. Take the desired card on top of the deck and place it face down on top. When you shuffle the deck, make sure that the desired card always remains on the top of the deck. This video will benefit those viewers who are interested in magic, an...

How To: Make a growing flower pot card

In this Arts & Crafts video tutorial you will learn how to make a growing flower pot card. First you make a flower out of a tea bag. Then cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a flower pot. Now take a couple of sheets of 8x4 card of the same color. Score one card in half and fold it. From the other card cut out a piece equal to the size of an A5 card, which is 14.85 x 10 cms. Now glue the flower pot shaped paper on to this card. Now cut a long strip of the card, 30 x 3 cms and fold it in h...

How To: Make a twist turn style card

In this video, we learn how to make a twist turn style card. The card will open with a neat pop out image on the front of the card! First, get an 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece of card stock and then score it 2 and 3/4 inches from the left edge and 4 inches over from the left edge. Then, turn the card the other way and find the center, then score from the right end to the very first score line. Then flip the card over and score the rest of the center line up to the first line. Now, make a score line fro...