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Are you a professional magician ? ( card tricks , flourishing , sleight-of-hand ) Harry Lorraines is the bible for magicians, right ? ( I know very little about this stuff ; I just play poker and blackjack and study both games in my spare time. )

Mind-blowing. Looks like Ed Pridmore memorized at least 27 decks in 1 hour ? So , when you are memorizing a deck in 5 mins is this flipping over the cards one-by-one always going forward ? Or can you retrace as you like ? How much practice did it take you to learn to do this ? Do you...

Thanks for the responses everyone. So, exactly how difficult is it to do what Ungar did ? ( I'm assuming that the cards were initially flipped over at a fair clip otherwise there could be the possibility of cheating , no ? ) I mean , just to put some boundaries on it : Is this a...

This tale about Stuey winning a $100K bet from Bob Stupak is all over the interwebs, but no one seems to know the details : <<< Despite being banned from blackjack at many casinos, Stu Ungar had discovered his talent for card counting, and it wouldn’t be long before he capitalized on it...