It's called the Turner push-off second deal. He kind of developed his own original way to second deal and nobody can pull that off because of the fact that he developed such an amazing skill that all it takes is a little touch(that's how he explains it) on that card.Also Bicycle worked with him because of the fact that he provided them details about the playing cards that they never thought of and as a reward he has a lifetime supply of cards(the standard gold).

Turner was honest saying he isn't a magician...but a card mechanic in its highest form....watch a few more of his performances and you find out he worked with the legendary Dai Vernon, and for many years practicing his craft from 10 to 20 hours a day 7 days a week! He started going blind at age 9. He is also the "touch analyst" for US Playing cards. They supply him thousands of decks for free of course. My favorite skill he has is asking a spectator to name a number from 10 to 40 and he instantly ONE HANDED cuts that exact number from the deck for them to count. I've never seen him miss by even one card!! By the way Dai Vernon said that nobody in the world past or present has been close to his skill level.

Just FYI, Penn and Teller have sworn in interviews that they never let someone slide just because they like them. They were saying they'd have loved to have Piff the Magic Dragon, for example, in their show, but they figured it out. So, according to them, at least, they never let someone by out of respect or anything.

Watch the rest of Richard Turner's vids here on KZfaq. You'd be even *MORE* amazed. There's also this hour-long video of a talk he did in MIT where he talked at length about how he got where he is.

I love that Richards so technically gifted that this guy being an actual magician makes it harder for him to understand it.

He's clearly an 8th generation wizard. For those not familiar; that's a Sorcerer.

4:33 The throwaway line "I have a 14" is insane even by itself.

When he finished doing the 2nd card deal teller was like bring down the FU trophy 😂 4:55

There's no way that they gave him a pass. They do have their credibility at stake after all. I'm sure you've watched it several times by now, his hands never left the tabletop. I met him in the early 80's at my stepfathers home. It was amazing watching him examining decks for thickness uniformity and using different cards to index each deck. I filmed him using a higher speed camera, and it was hard to spot seconds, centers, or bottoms fly off the deck. With no doubt one of the most humble and nicest person I've ever met.

I saw him live back in the day. This video doesn't even begin to demonstrate his skill. He was going easy on Penn and Teller.

Penn knows who he is, which is why he said "it's an honor" about 4 times as he joined him at the table.

Dude I love your vids. So happy I found this channel. it's like watching vids with a friend. Truly fun. Keep it up man!

if only he could see him self how awesome he is

I'm not planning on performing any magic, but I have to say that learning about it doesn't diminish it for me at all. I'm always amazed, but have more respect for the work ethic now. Love what you're doing man! Good stuff.

Really great video! I like when Teller was trying to get them to bring down the trophy halfway through the routine! Such an incredible performance!

That guy is amazing,blind and handling cards like that....I have to say it "Mad Respect "

Richard Turner is a living legend when it come to cards. Anyone below the age 30 who says they do most of his moves is lying. :O/ There are not to many people on this planet that are on Richard Turner`s level. Katalyzt

he has hundreds of decks of cards.. he works for card companys to make the decks better. he can read the cards with his fingers. amazing stuff.

I already watched this, and I just watched Turner's performance again, and then his MIT presentation.. and now I'm back to watch it here again. I love it every single time. You too, mind. But dang man.

don't know if u saw Richard Turner at Valuetainment but watch it! He tells some really unbelievable stories and explains a lot too. When u come to the point where he explains how he seperates the cards (he fells the thickness of cards) and does the second-deal, u really see, that he is the best in what he is doing. BTW Richard Turner has a black belt in Karate I love this guy

Incredible finding your energy. Your love for magic shines from within you. That intro was lit🔥

The majority of that routine is from Turner's "the cheat" routine that he performed regularly at the magic castle. I've seen it dozens of times, but I still love it every time I see it. You're right that the deck was gaffed... N-strippers. He'd have to have stripped the cards to the specifc, advantageous positions at the top and bottom of the deck, so that he could second deal and/or base deal to get the cards to Teller's hand. Brilliantly performed.

Simple: Hard Work ! hours and hours of training, being able to deal from the middle of the pack ! watch his documentary DEALT.

When I was young and still had proper feeling in my fingers, I could float 3 and deal "4ths," with a margin (what you call "brief") like that, but I had to pull them from the front to do it, and the fingernails had to be filed perfect for the day. What's amazing about Richard is that he's kicking the 2nd from behind the back corner and pushing it diagonally, so the front of the deck is always exposed, always clean, and human hands really shouldn't be able to do that, especially in later years. As for doing it 1-handed... um... fuck you? :) He's also using using those strip-cuts and asymmetric riffles to set up not only 2nds but also bottoms and middles simultaneously. Yah, sometimes he's mid-dealing, and I never even tried that. Ricky Jay (in his "52 Assistants" show) told the tale of how rare and absurd that is. To do it at full speed while still running his patter is just insane. That is the essence of grand-mastery. Even assuming the deck may be shaved or canted or treated somehow, to do it so leisurely while precisely measuring and restacking the deck sections by touch alone is just mind-boggling. I think Teller's expressions do tell the tale: It doesn't matter if you know what or how he must be doing it. You didn't see it. You didn't catch it. It all just melted together, and Richard controls the outcome. I'd play with him and even lose some money just to see it (not) happening... Sometimes the magic is "what you don't know." Sometimes, however, the magic is just how much a person can achieve in an art form. Personally, I prefer the latter.

There's a video of Richard at the MIT showing this routine and many other mad things he can do with his hands. Once he tells you how it's done, some of his moves become obvious (even more so if you do some magic yourself), but still, if you don't watch carefully he will get you every time. Also loved how Teller couldn't keep his giggling down when Richard does dealing seconds. It's as you said: he keeps that second card so tight to the first you could never tell, and I tried it myself afterwards - not the one handed one, that freaked me out...

There's a youtube performance of his called "The Cheat" from when he was younger. It's absolutely incredible, 20 minutes of just pure wonder. He's unbelievably good.

That's Richard Turned my friend. The greatest card mechanic who has ever lived. No argument. He teaches many of these methods in his instructional videos. Obviously we have no hope of being as good at them as he is. I can assure you there were no card doubles, props, or gimmicks in any way. I 100% know this.

I really like your technique for the, lets just say "card swap", it was really clean, I like that, I haven't seen it covered like that before man, good job, ingenuity.

Damn, wish I could learn to do that spread hand move with a deck of cards. Never been able to figure out how to not get the cards to spray, so I love seeing that done by someone with better handling than I!

"He just put me in my place!" YES HE DOES!

That was a really good top change! Well done! Literally perfect!

He has a version of this trick where he gives the cards to another person to deal so the deck has to be stacked before the deal. Mind blowing.

Your dancing in the opening broo 😂🔥💯

Richard Turner is well known in this business, there are videos on youtube about his story. Richard has been working on his shuffling for decades he used to do it 12-16 hours a day even during working out or eating so nearly all day while he was awake so he feels every and can distinguish every card in the deck. That is why he said he is a card mechanic

Eduard I love your videos keep up the great work. Your videos are really entertaining and positive energy just stands out. You should go on Got Talent and test your magic since I love every single trick in start of the videos. Keep it up man!

That's some beautiful work. At first it seemed odd to me that Penn turned over all the poker hands without being asked to, it made me wonder if they were working together, but then I read in the comments that he's done this routine before so I assume Penn and Teller are familiar with it.

The 'dealing from underneath the top card' you know is just pure skill. Years and years of practice. That kind of sleight of hand is what I love the most. The purest form of magic or foolery.

Thanks for the great vid bro! He can do this blind.....what am I doing with my life!!!!?

I mean, if you're looking for how he did it you will NEVER see. Richard Turner has spent years upon years with a deck of cards with his enhanced sense of touch to know what each card is through touch alone, along with the multitude of control patterns he did in the shuffles all combined. No one on earth as of now could replicate what he is able to do with those cards. Not only is his handling of the cards flawless, he has an idetic memory, and has memorized the hundreds of very slight differences to basically deal any card from any combination of a mixed deck possible. Truly an amazing and inspiring person.

Great video man, yeah Richard Turner it's awesome, his second deal is invisible. I've watched him in the magic castle and it's like his fingers could distinguish each card and know exactly where everything is. Super dope.

It's probably been mentioned. But youtube Richard Turner at MIT. He goes over quite a bit and it's all on the up and up. His hands are so sensitive he can judge cards in stacks. He can just pinch the cards between his fingers and just know how many cards. Another one would be how the mafia (guy nicknamed "Diamond") tried to get him to work for the mob. He's just that damn good! Amazing Life! Makes others whining about petty issues seem rather stupid, considering how this guy has never let anything or anyone slow him down.

Amazing

i'm genuinely wanting to know why richard turner has a watch

he found the 4 kings from the shuffled deck in 8 seconds. after that the deck sits on the table the entire time until he picks it back up to do some false shuffles before dealing the pocket kings to Teller from the middle of the deck.

I don’t really think he would try to trick them with more cards or stuff like that, he’s a card mechanic, so I think he just did something really amazing with his practice and experience, while being blind, which is very inspirational.

Just rewatched the trick, at least one of the kings was still in the pile when they washed them (the King of Hearts is clearly seen in Penn's half.)

Whats good Eduard....just wanted to say great job on the channel i really enjoy watching your vids i love magic ...by the way your intros are really nice too keep it up brother

i just learned about this dude ... now im stretching while watching youtube. dont waste time. amazing inspiration :D

His teqnique for dealing seconds was darn near flawless. His false shuffles and cuts I caught, but I knew to look for them. He did some of that on the poker hand. Still he didn't know how many hands he'd be dealing even if he did introduce a cold deck, but I don't think that's what he did. I think his fingers are actually sensative enough to tell the cards by just feeling the faces. With that and being able to do smooth manipulations on the shuffles and cuts, he could probably have dealt hands that were almost as good but wouldn't have beat the kings if he'd wanted to. He showed them how he could deal seconds and he had to have done some of that (maybe even thirds or fourths) and they still couldn't spot him doing it. You knew he was good when Teller reacted as he did during the initial demonstration.

I have seen this guy in the past he can actually feel the weight of a card and know what the card is just by holding it in his hand.

Like your vids man. Advice for performing and nerves and also how best to learn magic effectively ?

The only thing I can think of on how he sets the cards up is, I think he can actually recognize which card is which by running his fingers through the ink of the cards. Sort of like Braille reading. I heard he has a very fine touch so maybe that’s how he does it.

After he retrieve the card from Teller, he starts touching the card in a "searching for something" way... So maybe there is something that he can feel but we can't

That look on Teller. Also did you get the chance to watch the special where they showed some of his moves in slow motion?

the "cuts" pull the shuffles back apart, at least a couple of them did

Stripper variation, so subtle that P&T wouldn't notice but Turner could with his Spidey senses?

He worked with Dai Vernon (sorry if misspelled) for 17 years, and Vernon actually told him these insane concepts and slights when describing how to do the tricks (As he couldn't see how to do them) even though the were so many times harder then the original. Vernon done this just to see how far a kid with hunger would go and how good he could make it work if he put in an INSANE amount of hours. And it wasn't until perfection (literally tens of thousands of hours) that Dai Vernon told Richard Turner that he made them up.

Richard Turner is the best card mechanic alive. He has turned down literally millions of dollars from organized crime members to fix games for them. He’s uncannily talented and skilled on top of it. It’s one deck. He’s that good.

4:55 I love how Teller already gave up:p

that second deal is crazy. The only person i've seen who could do a second deal this slow and this good is Dai Vernon

Dai Vernon shared with him techniques that will die with Turner, he said so in a few interviews

Turner was presented in an 80's show That's Incredible.. he really has some slick sleight of hand.

In one video ( I forget which), he says that he has played so much for so long and that his hands are so sensitive, he can actually tell what a card is by it's weight and touch.

"never seen moves like that" --- "neither have I"

The only thing I could think of is the use of a stripper deck..... But that's the best I got.... But even then in an interview he said he can do any card movement with a deck even if someone else hands him a new deck.... So I don't know.

He didn't swap a single card from the table, this guy can keep track of the location of every single card in the deck inside of his head, and deal from anywhere in the deck. He's shown himself dealing from the middle of the deck just as naturally as he would the top.

For the people saying they saw him take cards out an put them back in that’s not true. He isn’t a magician he is a card mechanic. Dai Vernon Said is the best past or present that he has ever seen he’s blind so he can see an feel things how no one could imagine plus the amount of skill and time he’s had to work with cards i can Garuntee he can recognize cards from touch an just sliding a deck in his fingers can determine where they are based on how many shuffles he does. This man is a legend an for any card player or magician it’s an honor to see such a one of a kind guy still alive

Cool seeing someone in the know responding to these videos. Kind of feels like I'm watching with a buddy who knows what's going on but is still being blown away despite their knowledge. BTW. Your accent confuses me -- it's like South African crossed with Aussie. I'm curious about where you're from!

What I noticed while they were shuffling is that you didn't see any kings. I don't know much about card tricks but that would be my guess. He reintroduced the kings once he got the cards back. With him being blind it's all amazing.

He pre-chose the pat hand he wanted, then He actually was talking them through how he pulled it off by dealing under the deck.

I can see a really easy way to do this trick. I watched back you can see two of the kings in the deck for the wash. The kings could easily stay in the deck throughout. He tells you how he does it in the intro piece.

If you watch really carefully when he deals the kings he is bottom dealing them. Took quite a few times to notice it, when he pulls the king of hearts @ 7:03 ish is when I spotted it first. You can also just about tell when he is dealing to teller. The whole showing of the second deal before hand was a misdirection of sorts and probably the set up for the steal @ 4:58 his hand goes down to his lap after messing with the cards, this is when he likely did the steal, when he got them back in is hard to tell maybe when he was making the joke about Penn being his translator to Teller and the cameras were off him.

To even bring up the idea that Penn & Teller haven't heard of Turner is absurd! The guys a legend!!

the only thing i could think of, is that the kings feel slightly different, just enough for this "man" to spot them. man, he made me cry, i didn't think a human being can reach that level of skill.

He uses the same 2 decks I am pretty sure through this ENTIRE performance at MIT and he has so much skill it is unreal. I watched the entire thing the other day. He can cut any amount of cards that you want or ask for... Watch this one YT ( 2017 MIT Presents Richard Turner )

if you watch some of Turner's other performances you can get a better idea for how he does his tricks.. It's even more amazing than you think. He can count cards while still in a stack using just his finger tips... He doesn't so much count them as simply "intuit" how many there are by the thickness. Someone will ask him for a random number of cards and he will just hand them a stack and have them count them. He can also do a "perfect" interleaved shuffle... Oh, and he has a photographic memory. The most impressive tricks he does are when he takes a truly shuffled deck and re-shuffles a winning poker hand. This is made even more impressive because he has the spectator deal the hands after he's set the order of the cards. The "trick" is that he is constantly keeping track of where a set of cards are in the deck by counting the cards as soon as he splits the deck and performs one of several type of shuffle. He's basically doing the math in his head constantly.

1st time watching u, I'm subscribing m8! Here's my thought on it and why did they got "fooled", that is obviously what intrigues sum1 watching it. They were fooled cuz they watched the best sleight of hand man in the world, and Teller realized he was already fooled when dude did the one handed second deal. U can see he - in a joke, of course, but still - ask them to bring the trophy already, cuz he couldn't get even that. Then, the most amazing thing is, if ur a magician the first method I'd think obviously, n that's what the best do, he "removed" it - ill try using codes 2 - b4 the wwash but that would be hard enough as all the cards were face up in front of Teller, he'd definitely see, or u know... switching decks. But the amazing thing is u can clearly watch he did none of these. He shows his hands b4 taking the deck from teller n he doesn't switch. The rest is skill or stripped cards. The thing is. P n T know it wasn't black magic. They know like me n u there are possible methods n he must have used one of them. But he does it so freakin well and smoothly that u can only guess the possibilities, and when u see it already happened so fast u are left baffled.

I have watched this a few times and I think the move is a larger brief than it looks on first inspection. The thumb push off with deck hand is a lot larger and as he uses a 2 finger mechanics grip with the other hand to flick the second onto the table, as he does this the thumb retracts the brief to make it look a lot smaller. I have also noticed at 5:19 in the wash Penn does an extra face card appears. I have tracked the JH and that goes further down into the wash but his new red card is introduced and as it is under Richard's hand. I think from that it has to be a steal and introduce. At this point it becomes a trick of 3-4 packets; the 4K packet (pos. half in each wash) and a the rest of the deck in 2 halves. He executes bottom control with the 4K packet. From here it becomes a trick of dealing bottoms and tops.

He's blind and 4 times your age playing with cards his whole life blind since age 9, keep trying dude but you can't get to his level. No one will ever be able to. he feels the cards and knows how every card feels and no matter how scrambles they are he can get em back in the order he wants to. He's a card mechanic, he says it and that's what he does.

Ya it's not a steal watching some of his other performances even at magic castle he lets other people control the deck until the last riffle and cut and then he deals and he pulls out aces which you could see were in the deck earlier as the guests were shuffling them I think it's purely the fact that he can feel the minute tiny differences in how a card feels based on where the ink is and can simply pull the cards out.

there is a video of him called richard turner's cheat performance video in which he can clearly see and was addressing people very normally and he was quite matured aswell...no doubt its been very long and he mastered his skills and even have performed it blindfolded so he could be using blindness as an advantage to be more popular as he can prove without seeing the cards aswell... coming on this clip 2nd round i clearly feel its nothing but his 1st rounds 1st card hold intro ...as he was able to see he could know where the kings are after P&T shuffled then all he needed to do was to hold kings as per he wanted in which hes a master and distributed accordingly... but no doubt hes a master of his trade and hats off!!

Love your vids man!

if i watch it twice i might as well comment twice :D you even fooled me i didnt catch it the first time around you talked about pens haircut beeing magic on itself haha that was a fun one first time i watched the video i was tooo focused so everyone reading this dont feel bad if you come here again and again and again ... videos worth watching are those you enjoy several times and thats what weve got here cheers.

if you watch the moment where he spreads the deck before asking p&t to wash it, you can see three of the four Kings in the deck. one goes into Pen's pack to be washed in, the other two into teller's, along with a group of bottom cards that didn't fan well on the table, and could have contained the fourth. so, he didn't steal the kings before the wash, and you're right that the risk of showing five kings would be too great to introduce another set. I think he played it straight, relying on decades of practice to find and control the kings.

Wow that control actually fooled me cuz I expected a classic pass XD

The thing with stealing cards prior to the Penn and teller shuffling is.. Teller would have know if 2 cards were missing from that deck when he squared it.

you may watch it again and again and all over again... Richard Turner isn´t an illusionist nor magician, as he said himself: I´m a card mechanic. Period.

I don't know if you caught it but Teller was mouthing "bring down the trophy" after the second deal :D

What I saw on the one viewing.. (a) after the wash shuffle he strip-cuts the cards several times while talking about other things, it almost looks like a stripper deck motion (no idea how that would help, but it is what it looks like); (b) during the final set of shuffles, he appears to maintain a large chunk of cards on the bottom of the deck, even though the shuffles are otherwise smooth; (c) obviously the losing hands he could just straight second (well, third) deal from the pack so the number of other "players" doesn't matter since he's already shown us that he is a complete master of second dealing. Fun video, enjoying your show a lot.

If you wanna figure it out don't watch it again. Watch the documentary. It's just not tricks. it's pure skill that he can know the cards just by touching them and he can pick up exact amount of cards whenever he wants.

I use to research nothing but gambling moves, cheats and owned a large collection of books. He uses a variation of a technique that is really old and the variation is old as well. Dai Vernon who Turner was learning from was the first to bring it to the attention to the magic community. more than likely taught him it. There were no steals, mucks, loads, crimps or switches of any kind. If you want to know more for research purposes the I suggest starting with Dai Vernon and his research into "card alterations". I dont give out sources publicly only privately..

"the dude is blind, he cant see shit" best quote

Have you ever thought that maybe the cards he used weren't quite as big as a normal deck? Like minute amounts were taken off the corners of the cards to set them up for an autofall stack?

yeah hes second is so good . gotta start practicing that more

That Teller was freaking out says it all for me.

I just wanted to point something out, he didnt just give teller the four kings, he would have baited in a second player into high bidding by giving them that spade flush. So he didnt just handle four cards, he also forced all the spades on the table as well.

what the heck..... he (turner) so sick man, loveable ! great performance !

Steve Forte, Be Earl and Richard Turner are the top three cardmen alive at this moment.

It's called the Turner sweep second. it's a push off and he is the only person in the world who can do the move. his Havana second is where shit gets real. that is just beautiful!😱😍 people have suggested long/short and also a sub Rosa style....you can see when he controls the cards but it's impossible to tell how he does it. fun fact, dai Vernon was actually his best man at his wedding. 😁

The way he pull the card underneath the top card is by pushing his left hand thumb's muscle/flesh as he pull the top card inwards..