Second Deal Junkies
If you're a fan of the second deal, you might just find something of interest here!
For the past few years I have been working on a project which includes a fair amount of work on several types of push-off second deal. The project has been well-received so far and will be available soon.
"Chapman has done it again! ...the chapters on the second deal, peeks and the shiner are unequalled. These chapters are worth the price of the book alone!"
- Sal Piacente, Game Protection Consultant
"Details of Deception is a great read for advanced card workers. Great section on the second deal. Stacked to Win & The Hold’em Demo will put your second deal chops to the test. Highly recommended.”- Paul Gertner
"Terrific explanation of how to do a two card push-off second deal.”
- Steve Ehlers
In researching the material I shared a bunch of clips with a handful of great card guys, and I decided to share some of those clips here. Below are a bunch of links but several of them are password protected so if you're really interested in the topic, then I'd be happy to hear from you via email.
While writing up the material I wasn't always sure that there were enough people interested in the second deal but the more people I talked with about some of my thoughts and descriptions, the more I became confident that this project would find an interested audience.
Many of the clips below are password protected, but I'm happy to share any of them, just not to Joe public so if you're interested please email me.
Clip 1: Dealing to a table layout
This illustrates the deal in a four player game/demonstration, and also the uniformity of action between the top card deal and second deal. The specific purpose of the clip was to show how the cards are picked up and immediately fall into position for dealing without any delay or adjustments in the hand before dealing. https://vimeo.com/163901118
Clip 2: Sailing Consecutive Seconds (This is one of the push-off seconds described in Details of Deception:
This shows the deal from a lower angle to simulate the view of the right hand side player, typically a weaker view that potentially exposes the move. It still looks pretty good from this angle. https://vimeo.com/126030634
Clip 3: Overhead angle and slowed deals exposing the action
This clip exposes the deal from above. In the middle of the clip there are several deals done very slowly that break the action down more clearly. It also includes variations, some with a deeper sweeping right thumb action. https://vimeo.com/151471481
Clip 4: Various angles including exposed
Clip 5: Thumb lift Exercise (Sorry, this clip will only be made available to those who have Details of Deception.) The specific purpose of the clip was to break down an exercise to develop the thumb lifting action, during the take of the second card. The thumb lift action means that the top card is drawn back onto the deck while the left thumb is not contacting it. https://vimeo.com/150866499
Clip 6: Thumb lift action - take exercise shown as a somewhat broken sequence. Sorry, this clip will only be made available to those who have Details of Deception.
Clip 7: Thumb lift action - smooth (Sorry, this clip will only be made available to those who have Details of Deception.) The specific purpose of the clip was to show the thumb lifting action executed more smoothly and from an exposed angle. From this angle it is a little difficult to see the distance the thumb lifts off the top card, but if you study the action you'll see that the top does indeed slide under the left thumb aligning with the deck without any control by the left thumb.
Clip 8: Thumb lift - At the table, various angles. In an email my new friend JJ Sanvert described this detail as "dangerously deceptive". His comment made me smile. The specific purpose of the clip was to show the thumb lifting action when viewed from a few different angles and dealing to a four player table layout.
