Richard Turner is considered the world's greatest card cheat. CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez reports on how Turner's slight of hand helps him overcome his disability.
Holy FUCK, this guy is a mother fucking inspiration! He's blind, yet he's got a nice house, wife, fucking black belt, and the swag too. You couldn't even tell that he's blind. One of the biggest badasses I have ever seen.
I saw this guy back when I was in college. I still tell folks how I brought my own deck of cards, shuffled them, handed them to him, and then watched as he dealt out 7 poker hands calling out what he was going to deal. Blew my mind away. His sense of touch is superhuman.
Switched decks. He fake shuffles and cuts a lot. His cards are marked by something small he can feel.his misdirection is perfect, it’s that he is blind.
Mr Self destruct He is very good but not the most impressive when you know how it’s done. There are guys that can literally do anything. Goes hand in hand with time of course. Most of the elite guys have had minimum 20 years of perfection, some 30+
@@hawaiianprestigecars8493 Wtf.. Google Richard Turner dude, this guy isn't an ordinary Card mechanic. One the greatest to h've ever lived if not the greatest
His sense of touch is as good as everyone else has. It's just that we don't really use our sense of touch to the degree he does, he has however no sight so he isn't as distracted by visual information as we are. The human touch is impeccably precise, we can literally sense a difference in height of a flat object when the difference is just one atom higher. We don't really have a need for it though, and don't really develop a use for it though. Nor do we think about it, or need to analyze that sensory input, we use vision for so much more things that our other senses are pretty much neglected, except for the olfactory sense, because that's literally the most primal sense, as it's directly wired to our brain, Touch is the oldest sense but it's so bombarded with sensory data that we don't really notice it. We can feel each atom of air hitting us, but since it's always hitting us, it feels pretty normal. The same thing goes with bacteria on our skin and in our body, always forcing sensory inputs, so we neglect it. It feels so fresh after we have showered, because so much stuff is gone from our bodies, so many impurities... but yeah... to actually use the senses like Richard does is truly amazing, it's not superhuman, it's just that most of us don't have the need to use our senses like he does.
Mr. Turner... not just a great personality in cheats but also among the magicians... A lot of respect for such a great dedication by such a great personality .
What he does might be impossible if he were sighted. His blindness really enhances his sense of touch and I highly doubt he would have developed it if he were sighted. I'm sure he'd still be really good, but there are a bunch of moves that only he can do because of his sense of touch
Do you mean "fathom?" Phaethon is a Greek diety that had a role similar to Apollo. When he tried to drive the chariots which carried the sun, though, he failed and almost drove the sun into the earth, so Zeus took him out with a thunder- thunder-thunderbolt HO
This man is so inspirational. I just watched 'Dealt' and I learnt more from this man in 90 minutes than from many or most others in 90 days or 90 months.
Literally dozens of world professional magicians have said he is the greatest card mechanic who ever lived, the quotes are out there. Dai Vernon "the man who fooled Houdini" said Richard Turner can do things with cards that no one else in the world can or will ever do. He is THAT good.
Lol at the end. "Say what you just said" "No matter what hand you're dealt, let no one tell you what you can't be done" He plays off that horrible sentence so well.
The Queen or Deuce trick at 0:36 in is nothing more than a lack of attention on the victim's part. The dealer relies on our laziness with dimensional observation. We notice the queen is left and the 2 is right, and the dealer is betting that this is all our mind is concerned about. So with the quick twitch of the wrist, he simply slides the two to their opposing positions, and 2 is now on the left (from the victim's PoV). However, if a person paid attention to detail you would see that the queen is the bottom of the two cards. Fast forward to where he asks him to now pick the queen out, and you will see that the bottom card is now on the right side. That's the queen. Most illusions like these are capitalized on by our lack of attention to detail. Taking nothing from Mr. Turner, he is an incredible mechanic with playing cards. I could never dedicate my life to one thing the way he has.
Okay, I understand doctoring card sleights of hands, but this is amazing. I mean to doctor the outcome you gotta know which card is placed where in the deck in the first place. How does he do that blindly? Can he really feel the inks on the cards?
I wonder if they have to be new decks, like if they have creases folds etc does that effect how they feel? what if i took a knife and put notches in all the sides?
Turner has explained on a few occasions that he's VERY specific with how he prefers the cards to feel. He has several hundred of decks from the same printing year because he thought it was a particularly good run (a difference that very few, if any, would care about). When opening a new deck he will typically file the sides of it on the edge of a desk or table, to smooth south the fine, rough points. If a deck is "defective" he will often send it back and note exactly how it's flawed, which are usually in ways so minor that nobody else would notice.
Taylor Haws nope.. he can feel what every card is as he deals it. He can also 'fix' a deck after someone shuffles it, even if you take cards out of the deck he can tell how many cards were taken out just by feel. Watch Penn and Teller washboard shuffle his deck and he can still deal a perfect winning hand to a specific person.
He's capable of feeling the ink patterns of rank and suit, so it is like braille. That way he can peel the top card off and before he deals it, he knows what it is. I've seen Mr. Turner do it in person.
He told a card company that they changed their ink, the company said no and they looked at it through a microscope and couldn't tell anything was different, but turned out the supplier for one of the materials in the ink had changed their source, so he just has a ridiculous sense of touch. Braille cards would ruin his game I bet
btw his "riffle is him putting the deck 2/3 of the way together and then splitting it again, and the "split" is a simple 3 stack fake cut. only trust shuffling done by the audience.
