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Easy Magic Tricks with Poker and Gambling

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Want to deal yourself a royal flush? Or how about cutting to the aces in a deck? Here are the best easy magic tricks with gambling themes. While I would never encourage anyone to cheat, these tricks deal with poker, three card monte and more. If you’ve been wanting to perform easy magic tricks with gambling themes, here’s where you can start. 

1. Easy Magic Trick: Deal a Royal Flush

Here's a great and easy way to deal yourself a royal flush in a seeming demonstration of poker. It requires more talking and misdirection than card handling skills, but you'll look like a gambler and poker player when you learn this one

2. Easy Magic Trick: Ten Card Poker

Using only ten playing cards, in this easy magic trick, you deal two hands of poker and win three times in a row. This is a classic and if you like this trick, I discuss resources for professional versions. 

3. Easy Magic Trick: Dealing Four Aces

Here's a great magic trick and the best, easy way to deal yourself four aces in a seeming demonstration of poker. It requires more talking and misdirection than card handling skills, but you'll look like a gambler and poker player when you learn this one. And this free and easy magic trick is great for beginners and kids. It's all in the cards.

4. Easy Magic Trick: Simple Monte

In this trick, you display three cards and ask the spectator to remember them. After turning the cards over, you remove the middle card. You ask the spectator if they can recall what the card is. And when you show it to them, it’s a different card. This is an easy trick that you can easily make and perform.

5. Easy Magic Trick: How to Cut to Aces

In this easy magic trick, the spectator separates a deck of cards into four piles, mixes them a bit, and at the end, discovers that there’s an ace on top of each pile. All you need is a deck of cards, an easy setup and the secret, and you’re ready to go.

6. Easy Magic Trick: Two-Card Monte

Here's a version of the Monte that only uses two cards. You show two cards and then remove one and place it behind your back. When the spectator guesses the card that you took, he is always wrong.

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