{"id":19087,"date":"2019-09-09T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=19087"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:36:09","slug":"marked-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/marked-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Paul Wilson On: Marking Cards For Fun (And Profit)"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a magician, I\u2019m always being accused of using marked cards. A simple strategy I\u2019ve evolved to address this is to open brand-new decks and give the cards away at the end of a performance as a demonstration of fairness.<\/p>\n
This usually satisfies suspicious audience members, but the truth is I could hand them one of a dozen types of marked decks with complete confidence they would never suspect, let alone detect the secret information on those cards.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say that all marked decks are created equal.<\/p>\n