When McQueen was having dinner with Christian and her parents he showed an amazing card trick. I was wondering how he did that. Is there anybody who can do that trick?
shareHe spread the cards face up, memorized them, then flipped them to be face down when the person chose the card. My father, who had a great memory, could do this trick with about 60 or 70 percent accuracy, and he was not a professional card player.
shareI can't believe nobody else paid attention to the picture of the owl behind the father. There's a pane covering it and that works as a mirror.
"The elderly, they seem friendly enough, but can you really trust them ?"
Explai how he knew the old ladies card. She was in a different position.
shareIn reality it is wrong to consider poker a form of gambling ("Craps is a game of chance, poker isn't").
The 52 cards of the deck will turn up in a finite number of patterns and the good player can calculate the percentage odds of any card appearing at any point in the game. This means being able to take a "calculated" risk on any hand (call, raise, fold) based on sums in the pot as compared to the odds of that card being there.
Experienced players win by staying ahead of the averages that many deals provide. This is how Shooter is said to play.
The card trick was probably to show that the Kid could place a card at a glance. When I was a child my father suggested a memory development game for me looking at a number of cards and laying them out face down and recalling them in sequence after 24 hours. I got to be able do 15 cards with two minutes memorising via mnemonics. Kid in the film was faster and deeper than that but completely feasible.
In the final hand Kid calculated that a straight flush to the queen opposite a full house was so outside probability that he couldn't imagine it happening and so played on. It was treated as a mistake to some extent but "the Man" (Robinson) would have done exactly the same thing because the percentages made it the right play for the pot available. Indeed, but for the fact that the Kid was out of stake money, the game should have gone through a whole series of raises beyond what actually happened.
P.S. See Groff Conklin the Poker Game Complete
Tnk you, Hayes, for that cogent re-hash of the story. I mentioned elsewhere on this post that there's an extant Youtube clip of Poker Champions, wherein a lady player (former champ) with a full house loses to a straight flush on the 'River', same as the Kid, but real-life.
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He turns the cards over and remembers them.
shareGo out to Youtube and watch 'Ricky Jay' in his card manipulation tricks. There is also a classic clip of him on the old Arsenio Hall show (in the 80's), where he shows how tricksters did the '3-card Monte' con - only Arsenio checks out a card with a bent corner when Ricky looks away for a sec.. just when Arsenio thinks he has Ricky beaten, the card with the bent corner changes to another card - right under everyone's eyes. AMAZING.
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