I would have absolutely panicked at 0:30 if I was performing this since he accidentally dropped a card from the deck but he kept his cool incredibly well and casually put the card back in the correct place right in front of everyone's face yet no one noticed. THAT takes incredible performance skill. Props to him!
ClubsHeartsSpades Yep, he even says on his site that "it almost went horribly wrong on Ellen"--I came to this clip to see if I could spot it and it was instantly recognizable. But he recovered masterfully and you'd never know if you weren't looking for it. That's great showmanship!
It was the 6 of spades.. you can notice the card bent and that has to be the bottom card lucky enough. You can notice him trying to work it out with his hands the way he paused for a split second 😂
The recovery is impressive. He screws up the initial lead-in (leaving a card behind at 0:33) and then shows her the cards to cover the fact he's got to get that card back into the deck. After that, the cuts don't change the order of the cards. He's got a card marked in some way that indicates the beginning of this story. After Ellen cuts the cards, he performs a final, controlled cut to the marked card at 0:50. Once he's done that, it's just storytelling.
The way I learnt it, the final 6 is slightly bent, so you can easily cut it back into place. Most the time, when you get the other person to cut, since it's bent, it often falls into place by itself.
There's a fold on the edge of one of the cards. The deck is obviously set up. I don't know the mechanics of this trick, otherwise I would offer more information
@@maxhamlin38 The mechanics are actually fairly straight forward, it's false cuts and shuffles to give the appearance of a mixed up deck. From the start of the trick the deck never changes order except when the deck is cut in half, and then the marked card allows him to cut them back into place. This trick is all about the delivery of the story itself and the showmanship
Sickest card trick I've ever seen, absolutely fantastic. Usually if I see a new card trick I'd try to find a tutorial and learn it, but I'm not going to for this one, I rather stay amazed.
wow I saw this guy live in Sydney in front like 500 people where we got tickets for free because his show wasn't selling. Now he's gone onto ELLEN and performed for millions of people. Good on him!
This trick is prime example about the importance of good story at magic tricks. Yeah it's really obvious how the trick is done but it's all about the how he performs it. Absolutely stunning trick, I recommend this video to all my friends when I want to show what magic tricks are really about :)
Pause the video at 0:13. All of the cards are already in sequence with the story. If you want to see for yourself... open a second tab and play the video on it. While the video is playing, refer back to the first tab where you paused the video at 0:13. You can see the story progress as he works his way down the line of cards.
I think it's the amount of false cuts and the ability to keep up with them while doing as convincing a narrative as he did that makes the trick amazing.
This trick is really easy actually but it was amazing. If you pause at 0:13 you can see that all of the cards are setup in order, like the 4 aces and all the cards when he pulls his little '' story '' And basicly hes been practising this '' story '' for months and knows it like an open book, and he simply just makes false cuts and begins his story.
I’m here to ruin it for you, the cards are already in order of the story, the entire trick is just memorizing the story to go with the cards and to learn how to do false cuts. that’s it. you’re welcome
I hate to rat out a fellow magician, but the whole trick depends on the bottom card in the deck, the six of spades. If you look at 2:13, you can see the top left corner of the card is bent in. That way, he can know where the bottom of the deck is every time just by using his fingers. When ellen made the final cut at 1:49, her fingers naturally gripped the space under the six of spades, and he glanced afterwards to make sure she went there. Yeah, just thought everyone would want to know.
pretty cool the effect that he managed to get with all of that. Only noticed the "shuffling" the second time around. He always seams to shuffle, but actually never does. When he presents the cards we can see that the last card will be the 6 of spades, and it actually is. Pretty cool the effect.
well done...after knowing how he did the trick i thought it to be very easy and stupid...but when i started practicing it i felt it is the toughest 1...doing both the things together i mean telling the story and shuffling.xcellent co ordination..one small mistake can ruin every thing...u need lot of practice and confidence...hats off james...even after knowing how u did it this will be my favourite 1...
The way to do the trick is to have the bottom card slightly bent so when someone cuts the deck you can easily find the last card & put the deck back in order. The reason he pulls the illusion off so well is because he says the story so fluidly & confidently, I've known how to do the trick for months & i still can't master it properlly. Notice the 6 at the end, you can clearly see its slightly bent. By the way i am not trying to discredit James, even though i know how it's done his performance is incredible & pulls the trick off almost perfectly
Great trick presentation: He actually does not shuffle the cards at all! He pulls them apart again. Then: Cutting the deck does not change the line-up of the cards. He just has to look into the cards and cut them back. He then pretends to cut the deck all the time in his hands. But he actually only turns them around. So: The suit of cards is well prepared and stays the same from start to end. The trick is to pretend the shuffling and cutting. His talking to the trick is superb.
Warning: if you don't wanna know how he does it, don't read any further cause I don't wanna ruin it for people that don't wanna know . . . . . . . . for those of you who do wanna know, this is a great trick, i love it and have tried to do it. It's actually pretty simple, the secret is that the order of the deck never changes. If you look closely in the beginning when he spreads the deck, all the cards are in story order, and he does a lot of hand tricks but never actually changes the order of the deck. Even when Ellen cuts it, if you look very closely, he breaks it in half and puts the bottom on top, but slightly hanging off, knowing that she'll just grab the spot where it's hanging off because it's easy, putting the bottom back on the bottom and the top back on the top. And watch throughout the whole story, he keeps breaking the deck up to look like he's shuffling, but he sets in down in the order it started in. It was a great performance though.
It doesn't matter if you can analyse the trick once it is recorded on video, the whole fun and wonder of it is being there going how the heck did that just happen. This guy is cool, his delivery is ace and his slight of hand is amazing!
If you look really close you see that the cards were in the right order at the beginning ( 00:14 ) and that he isnt really shuffeling the cards. e.g. between 00:20 and 00:24 ( he doesnt put the two stacks together ). He is also undoing every single shuffle ellen did e.g. at 00:30 . He searches for the break point in the cards and moves them in the right order again. Still really impressive stuff.
The 6 of spades has a little fold at the end, which you can see at 2:14. Anytime Ellen cuts the cards, as long as the 6 of spades has that fold, James knows to cut it back to the bottom and not disturb the order.
If you look closely at 15 seconds you can see the cards layed out across the table and theyre in the order of the "story". You can see the 4 queens at the bottom and the 6 of spades at the top. So yeah its just a memorized story and making sure the cards remain in the same order even after the "cuts" and "shuffles".
wow i think there are only few magic enthusiasts watching this video compared to ellen fans. haha he's really excited being there, he's lucky his trick didn't mess up at one time he missed a card. good luck to james in US
It's a very simple trick. At 2:14 you see that the six of spades is curved in the corner. So if Ellen 'shuffle' the cards he can simply get the cards in the right order by picking the six of spades.
guys don't criticize him so much, its a trick thats more about the comedic style in the story and the fancy false cuts make it look good. i wanna see you handle the cards like that and say the story in an entertaining way. Great trick.
So I was on the computer, watching James Galea on ellen, so I have a comment for all of u and u mite thumbs up, so there are 2 ppl and one person is James with a J, so ellen was cutting the cards, then James told a story and when he finished I sed "WHAT THE HELL, HOW DID HE DO THAT!!!??" then I ended up clapping and jumping out my seat, that's ol I got and that's my comment.
amazing! what does he say in 1:54-1:57 after the fullhouse and after " and see what i can do"? and why did he laugh about the 4? couldn't hear what he said...
This guy is a great performer. Just look at 0.14 (All are arranged in that way to the story) then look at the way he fake shuffles in 0.20 (Look closely) as he puts in back to normal at 0.24. Finally look when ellen cuts in 0.30, he takes the card in his hands put the cards back into place. What he does after that when he ask Ellen to cut 3 times is a real cut and my only guess is that he practiced so much to make sure he pulls of the trick so hats of to him and the way he performed it as well..
well he didnt shuffle.. i could propably do just as many "false cuts" (that means making it look like he shuffles but in fact he doesnt shuffle them at all). It is a very easy trick but only few can be so good at entertaining people..
I would have absolutely panicked at 0:30 if I was performing this since he accidentally dropped a card from the deck but he kept his cool incredibly well and casually put the card back in the correct place right in front of everyone's face yet no one noticed. THAT takes incredible performance skill. Props to him!
ClubsHeartsSpades Yep, he even says on his site that "it almost went horribly wrong on Ellen"--I came to this clip to see if I could spot it and it was instantly recognizable. But he recovered masterfully and you'd never know if you weren't looking for it. That's great showmanship!
It was the 6 of spades.. you can notice the card bent and that has to be the bottom card lucky enough. You can notice him trying to work it out with his hands the way he paused for a split second 😂
Very impressive to let her cut the deck right in the middle of the story, and keep going flawlessly!
The recovery is impressive. He screws up the initial lead-in (leaving a card behind at 0:33) and then shows her the cards to cover the fact he's got to get that card back into the deck.
After that, the cuts don't change the order of the cards. He's got a card marked in some way that indicates the beginning of this story. After Ellen cuts the cards, he performs a final, controlled cut to the marked card at 0:50. Once he's done that, it's just storytelling.
The way I learnt it, the final 6 is slightly bent, so you can easily cut it back into place. Most the time, when you get the other person to cut, since it's bent, it often falls into place by itself.
There's a fold on the edge of one of the cards. The deck is obviously set up. I don't know the mechanics of this trick, otherwise I would offer more information
@@maxhamlin38 The mechanics are actually fairly straight forward, it's false cuts and shuffles to give the appearance of a mixed up deck. From the start of the trick the deck never changes order except when the deck is cut in half, and then the marked card allows him to cut them back into place. This trick is all about the delivery of the story itself and the showmanship
Truly blew me away! Loved the way how cards came up as he was telling the story! Awesome/fantastic!! Kudos!! :-) :-)
That was the most amazing card trick I have ever seen in any galaxy in any of my lives!
Sickest card trick I've ever seen, absolutely fantastic. Usually if I see a new card trick I'd try to find a tutorial and learn it, but I'm not going to for this one, I rather stay amazed.
wow I saw this guy live in Sydney in front like 500 people where we got tickets for free because his show wasn't selling. Now he's gone onto ELLEN and performed for millions of people. Good on him!
This trick is prime example about the importance of good story at magic tricks. Yeah it's really obvious how the trick is done but it's all about the how he performs it. Absolutely stunning trick, I recommend this video to all my friends when I want to show what magic tricks are really about :)
I could watch this a million times as he tells the story! Awesome and amazing!!! :-) :-)
Look close, he never shuffled them. Very smooth :)
Well... that how the Trick works
Pause the video at 0:13. All of the cards are already in sequence with the story. If you want to see for yourself... open a second tab and play the video on it. While the video is playing, refer back to the first tab where you paused the video at 0:13. You can see the story progress as he works his way down the line of cards.
Dude you right! I notice that shit!
false cuts everywhere.
I think it's the amount of false cuts and the ability to keep up with them while doing as convincing a narrative as he did that makes the trick amazing.
Best magic card trick i've ever seen. i like the way he is a talkative magician. Very cool man
Wow. That was...REALLY amazing. Thanks for posting!
This is the kinda video that doesn't need to be exposed or broken down. Just enjoy what he is doing.
I saw James last night live on a P & O cruise, amazing.
One of the best performances on that trick ever!
I went for a job interview today and used this as part of my presentation. I'll know if I got the job next week
This trick is really easy actually but it was amazing. If you pause at 0:13 you can see that all of the cards are setup in order, like the 4 aces and all the cards when he pulls his little '' story '' And basicly hes been practising this '' story '' for months and knows it like an open book, and he simply just makes false cuts and begins his story.
This is a fantastic trick thank you.
That was awesome, I have no idea how this is done, and I do not want to know :D
I’m here to ruin it for you, the cards are already in order of the story, the entire trick is just memorizing the story to go with the cards and to learn how to do false cuts. that’s it. you’re welcome
How am I always end up watching ellen clips everytime I go on youtube?
I hate to rat out a fellow magician, but the whole trick depends on the bottom card in the deck, the six of spades. If you look at 2:13, you can see the top left corner of the card is bent in. That way, he can know where the bottom of the deck is every time just by using his fingers. When ellen made the final cut at 1:49, her fingers naturally gripped the space under the six of spades, and he glanced afterwards to make sure she went there. Yeah, just thought everyone would want to know.
pretty cool the effect that he managed to get with all of that. Only noticed the "shuffling" the second time around. He always seams to shuffle, but actually never does. When he presents the cards we can see that the last card will be the 6 of spades, and it actually is. Pretty cool the effect.
This is a great performance!!!
requires rly a lot of practice
This is so impressive!
This is AWSOME
Wow that was amazingly cool!!!
OH MY GOD. That was so cool. The way he talks so fast made it even funnier
well done...after knowing how he did the trick i thought it to be very easy and stupid...but when i started practicing it i felt it is the toughest 1...doing both the things together i mean telling the story and shuffling.xcellent co ordination..one small mistake can ruin every thing...u need lot of practice and confidence...hats off james...even after knowing how u did it this will be my favourite 1...
The way to do the trick is to have the bottom card slightly bent so when someone cuts the deck you can easily find the last card & put the deck back in order. The reason he pulls the illusion off so well is because he says the story so fluidly & confidently, I've known how to do the trick for months & i still can't master it properlly. Notice the 6 at the end, you can clearly see its slightly bent. By the way i am not trying to discredit James, even though i know how it's done his performance is incredible & pulls the trick off almost perfectly
Great that this trick gets so many positive reactions.
Did anyone see that massive bend in the 6 of spades at 2:14?
wow he must training this for many years thats just perfect , best card trick i ever saw 5*
I was just explaining how the trick is done. He has one of the best deliveries ive seen
That was amazing.
That the best card trick i ever seen it in my life
One of most entertaining card tricks
Whoa... Whoa... Whoa!!! How the heck did that happen? Awesome Trick and story telling =D
This is an AMAZING trick. I can't believe how good he does this!!!!!!!!!
He was JUST on a second ago and I was impressed! He's amazing!
he messed up when that single card fell out but he smoothly put it back into place.... godly
Holy thats freaking amazing!!
Great trick presentation:
He actually does not shuffle the cards at all!
He pulls them apart again.
Then:
Cutting the deck does not change the line-up of the cards. He just has to look into the cards and cut them back.
He then pretends to cut the deck all the time in his hands. But he actually only turns them around.
So:
The suit of cards is well prepared and stays the same from start to end.
The trick is to pretend the shuffling and cutting.
His talking to the trick is superb.
made my day.
The what the hell card killed me!!!
wow that was amazing!
that was freaking AWESOMEE
great performance. please note the deck is "cut" and then uncut every time! haha that's how it's done but it is very clever!
He's the kind of person that'll eventually get his own show.
Warning: if you don't wanna know how he does it, don't read any further cause I don't wanna ruin it for people that don't wanna know
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for those of you who do wanna know, this is a great trick, i love it and have tried to do it. It's actually pretty simple, the secret is that the order of the deck never changes. If you look closely in the beginning when he spreads the deck, all the cards are in story order, and he does a lot of hand tricks but never actually changes the order of the deck. Even when Ellen cuts it, if you look very closely, he breaks it in half and puts the bottom on top, but slightly hanging off, knowing that she'll just grab the spot where it's hanging off because it's easy, putting the bottom back on the bottom and the top back on the top. And watch throughout the whole story, he keeps breaking the deck up to look like he's shuffling, but he sets in down in the order it started in. It was a great performance though.
The last card (the one that he forgot at 0:30) is bent.. so every cut was then recut by him because he could cut the deck with the bent card
How do you explain the shuffling then?
Diego Berrocal False Shuffles. Look it up, it's quite easy.
Yes, I'm aware of those, I realized when I saw this video again.
I figured out how this one is done but it's still amazing. He had to practice this 1000's of times to do it without making a mistake.
It doesn't matter if you can analyse the trick once it is recorded on video, the whole fun and wonder of it is being there going how the heck did that just happen. This guy is cool, his delivery is ace and his slight of hand is amazing!
amazing what we can do with cards
OMG wow this is amazing
HOW DOES HE DO THIS SOOOOO AMMAZING
They don't teach you that kind of magic at Hogwarts! But that was the best stunning spell I've ever seen !! Because i am stunned
this was SICK
this just blew my mind
If you look really close you see that the cards were in the right order at the beginning ( 00:14 ) and that he isnt really shuffeling the cards. e.g. between 00:20 and 00:24 ( he doesnt put the two stacks together ). He is also undoing every single shuffle ellen did e.g. at 00:30 . He searches for the break point in the cards and moves them in the right order again.
Still really impressive stuff.
OMG! that was really cool!
amazing!
Whew... Wow! Greatest story using card ever!!! lolz :-D
The 6 of spades has a little fold at the end, which you can see at 2:14. Anytime Ellen cuts the cards, as long as the 6 of spades has that fold, James knows to cut it back to the bottom and not disturb the order.
Holy amazeballs! Watch this!
AMAZING!!!!!!!
Amazing!
relationship with the replay button :)
that was epic. i wanna learn that
If you look closely at 15 seconds you can see the cards layed out across the table and theyre in the order of the "story". You can see the 4 queens at the bottom and the 6 of spades at the top. So yeah its just a memorized story and making sure the cards remain in the same order even after the "cuts" and "shuffles".
And also, watch at 0:20 he makes a cut but doesnt finish it, he pulls all the cards back out and then puts it on top.
@zabuza8901 wrong...the cards stay in order the hole time...apart from when their cut and he just cuts it back to the right point
Watch it again, it's all there.
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Cool card trick!
What.The.Hell.Are.You.Doing?! HAHAHA Awesome card trick :)
wow i think there are only few magic enthusiasts watching this video compared to ellen fans.
haha
he's really excited being there, he's lucky his trick didn't mess up at one time he missed a card.
good luck to james in US
Thumbs up if you saw this episode when it aired and not on youtube.. =)
It's a very simple trick. At 2:14 you see that the six of spades is curved in the corner. So if Ellen 'shuffle' the cards he can simply get the cards in the right order by picking the six of spades.
I'm floored.
People should acually appreciate the trick instead of analysing everything he does. Learn to appreciate and acually applaud his work.
@Levitron22 that move is just a simple cut to get the right card back on top to start the trick. He found where to cut with a pinky break.
amazing
guys don't criticize him so much, its a trick thats more about the comedic style in the story and the fancy false cuts make it look good. i wanna see you handle the cards like that and say the story in an entertaining way. Great trick.
That is seriously amazing. But I find it hilarious if you change the video speed to 0.25
I find 1.5 better XD
Amazing .
Mind blowing and funny too!!
So I was on the computer, watching James Galea on ellen, so I have a comment for all of u and u mite thumbs up, so there are 2 ppl and one person is James with a J, so ellen was cutting the cards, then James told a story and when he finished I sed "WHAT THE HELL, HOW DID HE DO THAT!!!??" then I ended up clapping and jumping out my seat, that's ol I got and that's my comment.
amazing!
what does he say in 1:54-1:57 after the fullhouse and after " and see what i can do"?
and why did he laugh about the 4?
couldn't hear what he said...
that is amazing
that was awesome. :P lol with the what the hell card1
I love this guy! omgg.
This guy is a great performer. Just look at 0.14 (All are arranged in that way to the story) then look at the way he fake shuffles in 0.20 (Look closely) as he puts in back to normal at 0.24. Finally look when ellen cuts in 0.30, he takes the card in his hands put the cards back into place.
What he does after that when he ask Ellen to cut 3 times is a real cut and my only guess is that he practiced so much to make sure he pulls of the trick so hats of to him and the way he performed it as well..
mind blown.
@0:13 you could see the whole "story"....trick is in the shuffling, pretty quick hands and nice control though
amaaaaazing
WOW IMPRESSIVE! to do that with a whole deck.
Could you please tell me which card trick is amazing when you know how it is done?
awesome how did he do that he shuffled it so much
well he didnt shuffle.. i could propably do just as many "false cuts" (that means making it look like he shuffles but in fact he doesnt shuffle them at all). It is a very easy trick but only few can be so good at entertaining people..
look at Helens face at 1:10 priceless :) hahahaha
I think this guy is amazing what are your thoughts