Magician REACTS to BLIND Man FOOLING Penn And Teller (Richard Turner) 

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.

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

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

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

Watch the rest of Richard Turner's vids here on RU-vid. 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.

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

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.

if only he could see him self how awesome he is

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.)

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dai Vernon himself couldn't do the methods that Richard Turner uses because he himself thought they were impossible. Since Richard was blind, Dai described the methods to him the way he THOUGHT they should be done, not the way the Professor actually did them at the time. So Richard, not knowing any better, actually developed all his methods completely on his own from Dai's instructions. The man is, no holds barred, the best card mechanic of all time. Not one of the best, or even a toss-up between the top two. He. Is. Number. One. And I don't think anybody will ever come close to replicating his abilities or methods.

Bruv. I really think that this one came down to them realizing that they could not recreate that level of skill.

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.

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..

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!

The trick is he isn't blind and just sees what card you took lol.

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.

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.

I don’t think he used steals or switched decks. I think the cards are altered in a very fine way that you cant just feel by accident. Also he is just on another level.

Oh yeah, it's not a strike. It's a double push off. So you're right there.

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

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. 😁

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.

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

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

Your breakdown is I’m thinking Magically. He’s not a magician he’s a Mechanic! Watch his documentary and you’ll understand! He can feel the cards and has a photographic memory. He doesn’t like to shake hands cause the oils off other people’s hands messes up his feel

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.

so sorry to say this guys he died on the 15th this month, will always be remebered as a legend

He didn't introduce kings or anything. He knows exactly where the position of the cards are even when someone else shuffles it. I actually don't understand how that is possible but he is just that amazing. Remember at the beginning, he said that he wasn't going to do a magic trick but that it would appear that way. So good luck. You can rewatch it over and over again but you won't find anything because that wasn't a trick. That was just pure skill in card handling.

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

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.

the only thing i noticed was at the end when he asks penn how many hands 5,6 or 7, the answer doesnt matter he dealt the 5th hand to teller and i believe he would have done the same even it was 7 hands

"he can't see shit" LMAO

He is GOAT of card manipulation 😂😂 he can fool anyone 🔥🔥🔥

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

He really isnt shuffling the deck during the riffles. He is parting the deck out into the same two halves each time. After the Penn and Teller casino wash, he shuffles during a conversation, running his thumb up the edge of the deck, shuffles again, and runs his thumb up the side of the deck.... he is locating all his kings to the bottom. And then again his riffle shuffles are not true, he is parting the deck back out.during the deal, he throws a king where he wants it by dealing off the bottom of the deck.

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

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.

I wonder if he has some way of physically marking the cards, but so subtle that you don't notice if you look at them. One thing I know about blind people is that a large part of your brain is dedicated to processing vision. When you go blind, your other senses increase and in some situations will start taking over the area of your brain that previously handled vision. I've seen blind people do echo location, where they use sound and hearing to draw a 3d picture of their world. That part of your brain that did vision, can now be used to "see" the world through other senses. That is why he can do Karate. He might even just be able to feel the tiny imperfections in each card and just shuffling through them, he would be able to build a picture in his mind of what every card is. The same as someone that has vision organizing a deck of cards face up.

Perhaps Turner did a deck switch, even though it would be almost impossible with Penn and Teller steadfastly watching his every move with nothing more than maybe a feet of distance separating them from Turner. If by some slim chance this was the case, then that would have to be the smoothest, most inconspicuous switch I have ever seen.

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!

I don't think he did any typical sleight of hand like switching decks or adding palmed cards... he's a 'card mechanic' not a magician

I don't even 7nderstwnd what he was doing with the 7. I gotta watch that back. Go in to find the actual video. Subbed to your channel from this one.

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.

Can you review Richard Turner To Catch-A-Thief 4. First he does the same sort of poker stacking the deck as here. But then he does the old pick a card. But he let's people say I want my card 23 cards down, and it is. Then he shuffles the deck, fans out cards face down, has a person pick a card and says it's that guy's card and it is. I can't understand how he could do that, the woman picked the card and I can't see how it could be forced.

Woah.. Think what he would have done if he wasn't blind...Great video man.. I want see to perform in front of others people someday..

Turner is a legend, but I love watchng Danieal Maddison bottom, second and amazingly middle deck deal...it is an impossibility that he does effortlessly...you watch it and the only way your brain can cope is to argue that it is cgi...but it ain't. He can deal four cards from ANY level of the deck, as fast as a dealer throwing cards out to five players.. insane shit.

I noticed something when he was shuffling. He does the riffle but not entirely slides both halves in and then with the block cut he pulls out both halves again and puts them back in the original spot. Nice fake shuffle ;).

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.

No, he didn't switch the packs and he didn't have extra cards .. he's not a magician, he's a card mechanic. He can pull off any card he wants from the deck whether it's faced up or faced down

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.

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.

I'm thinking it's a punch, but I'm not sure. Could be crimped Kings and middles. The guy's false deals all look identical so it's hard to tell. I don't believe they're coming from the bottom, just based on the shuffles before hand.

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.

Teller is so happy.... He knows all the tricks and has not spotted a thing...

The sad thing is you know enough to not know he does not at all like being referred to as blind... do some research...

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.

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.

The first trick. The 5 was behind the joker. Then at the very last second, you put the joker on the deck while you waving it across. Am i right?

your thing about having 4 separate kings is close. what he does is taken the ks out completely before the shuffles and placed them either on the top or bottom before the deal. the face up mix was with 48 cards, not 52 standard as he already had the kings hidden away. so when people see the 48, they aren't looking for specific cards and their minds can't process what's missing.

fantastic!:) even if he would be able to see, that has nothing to do with the thing he did there.it would still be too good to be called some average magician or something. he is as professional as you can get.Those hands worth millions.

Mr. Turner is the King as far as I'm concerned. An absolute Grand Master Mechanic. I am more focused on his skill set then his heroic life story........but anyway you "cut it" NOBODY has got it down the way Mr. Turner has. Glad to see another person who appreciates his work......though there's no shortage of us......

Your dancing in the opening broo 😂🔥💯

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

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

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!

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

If you missed it at 4:54 Teller already wanted to give him the trophy. And that was before he started the trick.