Hi! My name is Chris McKay with Expert Village.com
and I am going to show you guys the overhand
shuffle today. If you’d like to see more
of my services as a magician in Los Angles
or Cleveland, check on my website at www.mckaymagic.com.
Anyway the overhand shuffle is probably the
most basic shuffle that you can do with a
deck of cards but it is also not quite legitimate
because it’s very easy; it’s a control
of cards using the overhand shuffle. So if
you are playing in a real game of poker or
anything I would not suggest simply using
the overhand shuffle as the only shuffle that
you use but this is what it looks like. Basically,
you know a lot of people do this wrong. What
you want to be doing is pulling off cards
with your right thumb. A lot of people trying
like go over the cards with their left hand
which is very sloppy and sometimes cards come
from the bottom of the stack, sometimes they
come from the top but you really want to be
pulling the cards from your left hand into
your right hand using your thumb to gage how
many cards you are getting, just like that.
Let me explain the grips then; I guess that
is a little more important if you’re just
starting. You are going to switch in the kind
of a weird grip, it’s kind of like a brittle
grip here and then I am going to switch over
into kind of a brittle grip with my left hand.
I am just supporting the deck with my middle
finger, my ring finger and my thumb on the
other side and then in my right hand I am
just turning my hand palm up and just pulling
with my thumb and that’s how the shuffle
works. Really, the right way of doing this
is that you pull from the top. A lot of people
will pull out the middle chunk and then shuffle
off the top, part of the middle chunk; that
might be hard to see. What I was doing is
the right way of doing it. Just pulling off,
taking the entire deck into the left hand
and then pulling off the top chunks but what
some people do is they pull out the middle
chunk and then continue doing it. The reason
you don’t want to pull out the middle chunk
is because then you’re never shuffling the
bottom cards. That 5 of hearts will stay there
for ever if I keep pulling out the middle
chunk and just shuffling these on top. See
5 of hearts is still there; that doesn’t
actually shuffle the cards. So you want to
pull off the top chunk into the right hand
packet by packet just like that. So that’s
the overhand shuffle.
