AmbitiousMind
I came from a closeup magic background as I discovered tarot. I preformed professionally for years after college and have a Magician's Membership at the world famous MAGIC CASTLE in Hollywood, CA.
There's tons of shuffles out there to learn if you want to!
The riffle you speak of is normally called (in magic circles) a TABLE SHUFFLE.
You can do a table shuffle many different ways. The most common is for laymen to split the deck and with their thumbs, riffle the ends together.
For gamblers, normally you split the deck and riffle just the corners keeping the bottom cards from 'flashing'. THis is how I normally shuffle the deck.
Lacing is called an OVER HAND SHUFFLE when dropping the cards into your hand or HINDU SHUFFLE when grabbing the cards into your hand.
Then there's faro shuffles, where you split the deck and intertwine the edges together in your hands each card alternating from one half into the other half. 8 perfect faro shuffles gets the deck back to the exact same order as it started. Great for stacking decks. You can do a table faro, two hand faro or even a one-handed faro.
The faro shuffle is my shuffle of choice when handling a regular deck.
My name AMBITIOUSMIND actually comes from a very popular closeup card trick called THE AMBITIOUS CARD TRICK...
There's tons of shuffles out there to learn if you want to!
The riffle you speak of is normally called (in magic circles) a TABLE SHUFFLE.
You can do a table shuffle many different ways. The most common is for laymen to split the deck and with their thumbs, riffle the ends together.
For gamblers, normally you split the deck and riffle just the corners keeping the bottom cards from 'flashing'. THis is how I normally shuffle the deck.
Lacing is called an OVER HAND SHUFFLE when dropping the cards into your hand or HINDU SHUFFLE when grabbing the cards into your hand.
Then there's faro shuffles, where you split the deck and intertwine the edges together in your hands each card alternating from one half into the other half. 8 perfect faro shuffles gets the deck back to the exact same order as it started. Great for stacking decks. You can do a table faro, two hand faro or even a one-handed faro.
The faro shuffle is my shuffle of choice when handling a regular deck.
My name AMBITIOUSMIND actually comes from a very popular closeup card trick called THE AMBITIOUS CARD TRICK...