[00:00] I recently put out a YouTube short of me doing the Pharaoh Shuffle, and it's done pretty well on there. So I thought I'd do a tutorial that's a little bit longer, and just kind of show you step-by-step, nice and slow, so you can practice along with me doing the Pharaoh Shuffle.
[00:12] I have four decks of cards listed out here for us, and we have two kind of premium cards, kind of plastic cards, you might say. The regular bicycle deck, which is really old here.
[00:24] It's got the Jokers in it. and I find that the older decks don't work too well with the Pharaoh Shuffle, and then I have the cards that I use kind of every day for my Blackjack content that I make,
[00:37] which, by the way, if you're interested to learn how to count cards with each slot machine, that's what the rest of this channel is about, okay? So we'll get to the premium decks here in a second, but let's just kind of demonstrate here what the Pharaoh Shuffle is.
[00:52] I'll come back to these really old cards, so you can see on the sides Just how not white they are anymore, and they just do not work as well But let's use my regular deck that I probably use for everyday shuffle. These are paper cards, right?
[01:08] They do have a little bit of texture to them I don't know if you can hear that or not, but anyway a couple things that I find that work best with the Faro shuffle Is first off I am right-handed and because of that I like to face the cards
[01:22] away so that the face of the cards is pointing to my left. With that said, I'd then like to break off, you know, right around half or so. If you need to be perfectly precise, you might want to practice more getting these broken
[01:38] perfectly in 26 and 26 or half a deck and half a deck. We'll show you kind of why that's important at the end of this video if you're doing like a card trick or something where the pharaoh has to be perfect. Otherwise, you can see I'm already starting to kind of show what comes next.
[01:52] And that is, I'm tapping these two packs together. Why that's helpful is because it flattens kind of the bottom of the one in my right hand and the top of the one in my left hand.
[02:06] Now, both are still facing to the left. Both faces of the cards here. And this next part is kind of, I don't see a whole lot of people teach that. And that is, I'm going to put my pointer finger out here.
[02:20] and as I put the cards together, they're not flat, all right? Instead, I'm going to make a little bit of a V towards the back right here.
[02:32] The reason why that's important is because if I were to do it flat, that's a lot of surface area that's trying to, you know, go through all those cards at once and that's going to create a lot of friction and just make this tougher.
[02:45] By lifting this up a little bit, just a little bit, it doesn't have to be a whole lot, you are now only putting the pressure on the tip of the corner of this top pack and then it's going to slide nicely into the bottom pack.
[02:59] That the second part that a lot of people don teach is when they finally go through I kind of moving very slowly from front to back as I go that very exaggerated doesn really move a whole lot but it going to move ever so slightly kind of from the
[03:14] front to the back where a lot of people try to force them in and that doesn't work out too well okay so I put my finger here to kind of as a guide from the left to the other left all right to set up is important once you get this
[03:26] what I've said probably takes about three seconds to just kind of get that up and in when they go together. All right, so you really want to line those up nice and well. Kind of bring those in close to the camera here. You can see that they're kind of lined up.
[03:39] Another thing, I'm almost tipping this one slightly forward as, again, that will create less surface area. As I do that, notice I still have that little V as I turn the card this way.
[03:51] So the back is slightly lifted up. They're very exaggerated, but it's not fully together like this. It is slightly lifted. All right. And then you'll notice once you see them kind of start to interlace just like that
[04:04] with just a little bit of pressure, then you start to pull back. All right. Just like that. Now, I'm kind of exaggerating. I'm looking at my screen, so I need to focus here.
[04:17] but as I pull back and then I'm loosening up my grip notice that they all just start to go together now this one is definitely not perfect as you can see right I hold this nice here right there
[04:33] there are two cards that kind of got pinched together at the same time at the top and it wasn't perfectly interlaced every other one so if that matters to you just undo it okay otherwise you can always start over so see if we can get a perfect one I'll try
[04:49] to focus on the cards a little bit instead of the camera all right okay so I got that in there now lift up slightly
[05:01] my card a little slippery here there we go nice so pretty good at the very end I It looks like I might have more cards on the bottom, and so at the very end they didn't interlace perfectly.
[05:16] But the whole first part there, so I bring that close, you can tell those are all interlaced nicely. My favorite part is at the end. I like to kind of hold them where those two parts of the cards, the top packet and the bottom packet, are coming together.
[05:30] I'm going to take my right hand, and I'm going to push those in. Notice I'm using kind of like my pointer finger to also push here. And then they do a bridge and come together like that. Alright, let's try if we can, let's see if we can do it a little bit quicker now.
[05:45] Okay. And again, if you're striving for perfection here, it's a lot trickier than if you're not. So again, I didn't quite get it perfect. There's one little bit at the very top that there's two cards close together.
[06:01] But if you just going for a shuffled deck then that works just fine Okay Now that with kind of my everyday type of cards If I go back to those bicycle cards that are very used notice how oops I got to face those to my left
[06:20] Notice how it just is more clunky when they go together. So you really want to have a good set of cards. It's like kind of stuck. Now, actually, that was pretty good. but I've had a lot of practice with these
[06:33] brand new bicycle cards work really nice however these ones are probably 12 years old or so I've had these since high school and of course I show up
[06:45] really good when I on camera trying to be clunky with those ones but anyway you can kind of see that now if you can get a nice set of premium cards like these ones are plastic they have a nice
[06:57] weight to those these should work the best now again you want to try to get those split about perfectly so if anything there might be one more on that side I might have it right the first time
[07:09] okay and come on and let's see if we can farrow these guys together these ones are slightly thicker so you can all see those go together a little bit better there
[07:25] now the first part and last part weren't quite perfect for me but listen to this it makes such a nice sound with those nice plastic cards okay and then a little drill for you if you
[07:38] want to try this on your own here i have all the cards in order all right ace through king in each of the suits and so one it's really easy to tell where halfway is but two if you do
[07:54] the Pharaoh shuffle with half and half here, then these should perfectly come back together so like the King will be next to the King all the way down to the ace on the backside of the deck here so let's see if we can do that perfectly
[08:15] there's a nice perfect shuffle so again these are those premium cards they just work out a little bit better you can see if I bring that nice and close every single one of those come on so we'll focus every single one of those cards are perfectly together make sure not
[08:32] to mess them up there and now as I fan through these all the black cards together and all the red cards are together and additionally the two black kings two black queenings all the way down to the aces
[08:46] are together playing with the red cards. So it's a fun drill that you can do. Now, if you are, kind of the last thing I'll leave you with is if you are just wanting to mix up your cards,
[08:58] it doesn't take too many of these pharaoh shuffles to do that, especially if you have a brand new deck. Alright, there you can see I was one off. Alright, so if you do that drill twice, let see we got four kings four queens Jacks tens nines eights So if there any that our numbers are out of place like if there be a six right there
[09:21] then that one might have messed it up a little bit. Fives are good, fours, threes, twos, and our aces. However, what I was saying is, so these are all kind of together, you might say,
[09:33] but it doesn't take too many faros, faro shuffles, to fully mix up these decks. Let me do it two more times.
[09:49] That one was a little clunky. I'm trying to go quick though. I also have a camera right in my face filming this. usually my camera is where this one is anyway all right so last one there now I'm going to fan these
[10:07] out and you can see that now hardly any of those if any are the same numbers right next to each other so the ferro shuffle does a really good job of mixing up your cards and hopefully by
[10:22] learning those tips again just one more time to go through those face them to your opposite or your non-dominant hand so for me I'm right hand is on face them left gonna try to split them as perfectly halfway and as I can right
[10:37] about there tap them together just like that use my pointer finger to kind of guide these two packs together all right I'm gonna slightly ever so slightly tip
[10:50] up the back as we're going in and as I do that then as I start to interlace then I'm going to
[11:03] slowly pull them backwards notice that from where I started to where I ended I'll do it again here I'm starting right they're kind of flush with each other when I finish they're back just a little bit
[11:16] by pulling it ever so slightly that seems to want to interlace them a little bit better so you can see I pulled those back from where I started at and then the best part is
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