Richard Turner is considered the world's greatest card cheat. CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez reports on how Turner's slight of hand helps him overcome his disability.
Holy FUCK, this guy is a mother fucking inspiration! He's blind, yet he's got a nice house, wife, fucking black belt, and the swag too. You couldn't even tell that he's blind. One of the biggest badasses I have ever seen.
I saw this guy back when I was in college. I still tell folks how I brought my own deck of cards, shuffled them, handed them to him, and then watched as he dealt out 7 poker hands calling out what he was going to deal. Blew my mind away. His sense of touch is superhuman.
Switched decks. He fake shuffles and cuts a lot. His cards are marked by something small he can feel.his misdirection is perfect, it’s that he is blind.
Mr Self destruct He is very good but not the most impressive when you know how it’s done. There are guys that can literally do anything. Goes hand in hand with time of course. Most of the elite guys have had minimum 20 years of perfection, some 30+
@@hawaiianprestigecars8493 Wtf.. Google Richard Turner dude, this guy isn't an ordinary Card mechanic. One the greatest to h've ever lived if not the greatest
His sense of touch is as good as everyone else has. It's just that we don't really use our sense of touch to the degree he does, he has however no sight so he isn't as distracted by visual information as we are. The human touch is impeccably precise, we can literally sense a difference in height of a flat object when the difference is just one atom higher. We don't really have a need for it though, and don't really develop a use for it though. Nor do we think about it, or need to analyze that sensory input, we use vision for so much more things that our other senses are pretty much neglected, except for the olfactory sense, because that's literally the most primal sense, as it's directly wired to our brain, Touch is the oldest sense but it's so bombarded with sensory data that we don't really notice it. We can feel each atom of air hitting us, but since it's always hitting us, it feels pretty normal. The same thing goes with bacteria on our skin and in our body, always forcing sensory inputs, so we neglect it. It feels so fresh after we have showered, because so much stuff is gone from our bodies, so many impurities... but yeah... to actually use the senses like Richard does is truly amazing, it's not superhuman, it's just that most of us don't have the need to use our senses like he does.
Mr. Turner... not just a great personality in cheats but also among the magicians... A lot of respect for such a great dedication by such a great personality .
What he does might be impossible if he were sighted. His blindness really enhances his sense of touch and I highly doubt he would have developed it if he were sighted. I'm sure he'd still be really good, but there are a bunch of moves that only he can do because of his sense of touch
Do you mean "fathom?" Phaethon is a Greek diety that had a role similar to Apollo. When he tried to drive the chariots which carried the sun, though, he failed and almost drove the sun into the earth, so Zeus took him out with a thunder- thunder-thunderbolt HO
This man is so inspirational. I just watched 'Dealt' and I learnt more from this man in 90 minutes than from many or most others in 90 days or 90 months.
Literally dozens of world professional magicians have said he is the greatest card mechanic who ever lived, the quotes are out there. Dai Vernon "the man who fooled Houdini" said Richard Turner can do things with cards that no one else in the world can or will ever do. He is THAT good.
Lol at the end. "Say what you just said" "No matter what hand you're dealt, let no one tell you what you can't be done" He plays off that horrible sentence so well.
The Queen or Deuce trick at 0:36 in is nothing more than a lack of attention on the victim's part. The dealer relies on our laziness with dimensional observation. We notice the queen is left and the 2 is right, and the dealer is betting that this is all our mind is concerned about. So with the quick twitch of the wrist, he simply slides the two to their opposing positions, and 2 is now on the left (from the victim's PoV). However, if a person paid attention to detail you would see that the queen is the bottom of the two cards. Fast forward to where he asks him to now pick the queen out, and you will see that the bottom card is now on the right side. That's the queen. Most illusions like these are capitalized on by our lack of attention to detail. Taking nothing from Mr. Turner, he is an incredible mechanic with playing cards. I could never dedicate my life to one thing the way he has.
i don't know if anyone else is aware of this but when i was a sailor in the late 70,s early 80,s you could break out a brand new deck of Bicycle cards and just by looking at the backs of the cards i could pick the Ace of spades every time, they had the smallest little misprint in the upper right corner,
Okay, I understand doctoring card sleights of hands, but this is amazing. I mean to doctor the outcome you gotta know which card is placed where in the deck in the first place. How does he do that blindly? Can he really feel the inks on the cards?
I wonder if they have to be new decks, like if they have creases folds etc does that effect how they feel? what if i took a knife and put notches in all the sides?
Turner has explained on a few occasions that he's VERY specific with how he prefers the cards to feel. He has several hundred of decks from the same printing year because he thought it was a particularly good run (a difference that very few, if any, would care about). When opening a new deck he will typically file the sides of it on the edge of a desk or table, to smooth south the fine, rough points. If a deck is "defective" he will often send it back and note exactly how it's flawed, which are usually in ways so minor that nobody else would notice.
Taylor Haws nope.. he can feel what every card is as he deals it. He can also 'fix' a deck after someone shuffles it, even if you take cards out of the deck he can tell how many cards were taken out just by feel. Watch Penn and Teller washboard shuffle his deck and he can still deal a perfect winning hand to a specific person.
What a disrespectful comment, accusing someone of faking a life long disability. He trained more than 12 hours a day, everyday for 50 years to get to this point despite his handicap, and people like you have the insolence to delittle the efforts that this amazing man did. Just because you could never do something even nearly as noteworthy as what he did, it doesn't mean that someone can't reach these results despite the blindness. Have respect
+Lorenzo Falconieri That was not a disrespectful comment. Some people are legally blind but their vision isn't completely gone. He is not accusing him of cheating, he questioning wether he is 100 procent blind or if he still has some sight left.
at one time he had some peripheral vision but could see nothing straight ahead. I think it was later that he said he could sometimes vaguely see shadows.
Can anyone explain his sorcery!?!?!?! I understand how he has exceptional skills with cards (eg shuffling, card in hand tricks) But HOW DOES HE KNOW WHAT CARDS ARE WHICH?
***** LOL I very much doubt he can detect the individual weight of each card. I suspect he has some kind of non-visible marking on certain cards like a groove or a defect in the side of the aces for example. Lots of other card magicians use this sort of trick, so chances are he can't do this stuff without his own pre-prepared deck.
What's your point? He gave that deck to the guy to shuffle in the first place so it could still be primed with marks, blemishes, defects on the cards for identification through touch without observers knowing his trick.
Basically, he only needs to mark cards needed for his trick, the rest of the deck is just pointless fluff around it. So he can pick out aces as they have a tiny notch in one edge for example. Even if someone else shuffles the deck, he can still take it back and find the notches. Something like that :)
btw his "riffle is him putting the deck 2/3 of the way together and then splitting it again, and the "split" is a simple 3 stack fake cut. only trust shuffling done by the audience.
He's capable of feeling the ink patterns of rank and suit, so it is like braille. That way he can peel the top card off and before he deals it, he knows what it is. I've seen Mr. Turner do it in person.
He told a card company that they changed their ink, the company said no and they looked at it through a microscope and couldn't tell anything was different, but turned out the supplier for one of the materials in the ink had changed their source, so he just has a ridiculous sense of touch. Braille cards would ruin his game I bet
I believe Bruce Lee had a similar quote he followed. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
I have actually mastered the Turner Sweep Second. I have also developed sweeping techniques for bottom, second from bottom and centre deals. I am tempted to put the exact methods out in book or video form because it's a secret well worth doing. It has been the result of almost a decade of practice in dealing techniques and thousands of hours.
Holy FUCK, this guy is a mother fucking inspiration!
He's blind, yet he's got a nice house, wife, fucking black belt, and the swag too. You couldn't even tell that he's blind. One of the biggest badasses I have ever seen.
Just watched this video and all i have to say is WOW!
I saw this guy back when I was in college. I still tell folks how I brought my own deck of cards, shuffled them, handed them to him, and then watched as he dealt out 7 poker hands calling out what he was going to deal. Blew my mind away. His sense of touch is superhuman.
Switched decks. He fake shuffles and cuts a lot. His cards are marked by something small he can feel.his misdirection is perfect, it’s that he is blind.
Mr Self destruct He is very good but not the most impressive when you know how it’s done. There are guys that can literally do anything. Goes hand in hand with time of course. Most of the elite guys have had minimum 20 years of perfection, some 30+
@@hawaiianprestigecars8493 Wtf.. Google Richard Turner dude, this guy isn't an ordinary Card mechanic. One the greatest to h've ever lived if not the greatest
Sam yeah I only recently saw he doesn’t do his best tricks on camera.
His sense of touch is as good as everyone else has. It's just that we don't really use our sense of touch to the degree he does, he has however no sight so he isn't as distracted by visual information as we are. The human touch is impeccably precise, we can literally sense a difference in height of a flat object when the difference is just one atom higher. We don't really have a need for it though, and don't really develop a use for it though. Nor do we think about it, or need to analyze that sensory input, we use vision for so much more things that our other senses are pretty much neglected, except for the olfactory sense, because that's literally the most primal sense, as it's directly wired to our brain, Touch is the oldest sense but it's so bombarded with sensory data that we don't really notice it.
We can feel each atom of air hitting us, but since it's always hitting us, it feels pretty normal. The same thing goes with bacteria on our skin and in our body, always forcing sensory inputs, so we neglect it. It feels so fresh after we have showered, because so much stuff is gone from our bodies, so many impurities... but yeah... to actually use the senses like Richard does is truly amazing, it's not superhuman, it's just that most of us don't have the need to use our senses like he does.
That last move is out of this world.
Richard Turner: "I'm a card mechanic."
CBS: "He's cheating, but that's okay because he's blind."
No, it's OK because he's not hustling anyone.
Mr. Turner...
not just a great personality in cheats but also among the magicians...
A lot of respect for such a great dedication by such a great personality .
The biggest cheat of em all. Would be if he is actually not blind.
YES ... he most certainly is blind.
I don't know about that. What he can do would be impressive for sighted people as well.
No. That would be a miracle.
What he does might be impossible if he were sighted. His blindness really enhances his sense of touch and I highly doubt he would have developed it if he were sighted. I'm sure he'd still be really good, but there are a bunch of moves that only he can do because of his sense of touch
Sight doesn't really help at all with what he's doing. Maybe he was able to take it to that level BECAUSE he's blind.
who are those 20 thumbs down idiots??
U are the MAN Mr Turner
well said man
+vernonclassic you are the real DV??????!!!!!
The thumbs downs are from all casinos!
People like you and me can only Phaethon what the human brain is truly capable of.. you might think nothing of it now but look at this guys skill.
Do you mean "fathom?" Phaethon is a Greek diety that had a role similar to Apollo. When he tried to drive the chariots which carried the sun, though, he failed and almost drove the sun into the earth, so Zeus took him out with a thunder- thunder-thunderbolt HO
Bare Flanks Probably autocorrect. That crazy autocorrect, always doing silly shit.
Bare Flanks Its also a car model from VW ;-)
This man is so inspirational. I just watched 'Dealt' and I learnt more from this man in 90 minutes than from many or most others in 90 days or 90 months.
I've seen so many fantastic card moves and this guy is ridiculous. Doing a false deal with the target card face up is just insane.
There's a documentary being made about this guy's amazing story! Check out DEALTmovie.com to find out more info!
I know, mate, I wasn't fully convinced until that moment. But WOW. Flawless, every time...
Literally dozens of world professional magicians have said he is the greatest card mechanic who ever lived, the quotes are out there. Dai Vernon "the man who fooled Houdini" said Richard Turner can do things with cards that no one else in the world can or will ever do. He is THAT good.
"No matter what hand you're dealt ..."
Ba dum tssssh! What a badass.
the real life gambit
that's ricky jay
Its more like a Daredevil version of a card sharp
When is that movie coming?
I was looking up professional card tricks when I happened across this story. Great job, CBS This Morning! A well-told story. 👍👍👍
Okay that last move with the ace is a really good slight of hand 😩😩👏👏
Excuse me while I stop feeling sorry for myself. What a joke. This guy is really facing a hard life. And I complain about my bullshit problems.
It's good to see this kind of shit sometimes, you know? Makes ones everyday problems look like bullshit in comparison to what he has overcome.
Atnas Ingetnamn He has so much DISCIPLINE!
Lol at the end.
"Say what you just said"
"No matter what hand you're dealt, let no one tell you what you can't be done" He plays off that horrible sentence so well.
Amazing, big respect for Richard.
Come on CBS, would it be that difficult to say that "he feels the ink of the cards, allowing him to "see" with his superhuman touch".
The Queen or Deuce trick at 0:36 in is nothing more than a lack of attention on the victim's part. The dealer relies on our laziness with dimensional observation. We notice the queen is left and the 2 is right, and the dealer is betting that this is all our mind is concerned about. So with the quick twitch of the wrist, he simply slides the two to their opposing positions, and 2 is now on the left (from the victim's PoV). However, if a person paid attention to detail you would see that the queen is the bottom of the two cards. Fast forward to where he asks him to now pick the queen out, and you will see that the bottom card is now on the right side. That's the queen. Most illusions like these are capitalized on by our lack of attention to detail.
Taking nothing from Mr. Turner, he is an incredible mechanic with playing cards. I could never dedicate my life to one thing the way he has.
"but then, neither could he."
guy in the editing room: "nice."
he deals from the bottom and the bottom of the top card so good. he's the best mechanic ever.
This dude is so good he can manipulate online poker.
Underrated comment
He practices somuch that his wife can actually mimic perfectly the sound of a deck being shuffled.
LOL.
i don't know if anyone else is aware of this but when i was a sailor in the late 70,s early 80,s you could break out a brand new deck of Bicycle cards and just by looking at the backs of the cards i could pick the Ace of spades every time, they had the smallest little misprint in the upper right corner,
1:53 that's actually quite realistic sound
This man is the reason why I don't even dare to touch a deck of cards let alone play others over cash, freaking awesome every damn time!
His son's name is ace of spades? Wow... that reminds me of the joke in which the son would ask his dad how he got his name.
I think it's Asa Spades
the name came from his mother
Okay, I understand doctoring card sleights of hands, but this is amazing. I mean to doctor the outcome you gotta know which card is placed where in the deck in the first place. How does he do that blindly? Can he really feel the inks on the cards?
His wife has to KEEP HIM from shuffling cards in church. Hysterical!!
That last move was insane!! 🤷♂️
*THAT'S* dedication!
So this guy says, "Pick a card. Don't let me see it." 😆😁😄😃😀
Or "Pick a card. It doesn't matter if you show it to me."
richard is better than card cheats that can see :)
I am literally speechless at this guys incredible skills.
"sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand"
Cool Hand Luke ftw
It is I the shuffle master!! *appears from smoke*
People: "How do you fight when you can't see?"
Richard: "I don't know, come fight me and find out." -
Guy has insane skills. Amazing.
But how can he deal certain cards without seeing the face values? Does he just handle them?
That last move with the Ace! Damn.
this is a really admirable man i've accomplished absolutely SHIT and I have my eyesight
No one will ever be as good as him no one’s putting in that type of work
mind boggling talent and astonishing hard work. Hats off !
black belt? thats so cool
Amazing! A true professional
I remember him from the TV show: Ripley's Believe it or Not. He was amazing then and he's amazing now.
Richard Turner is the number 1 !
Vorfor kann jeg megselv trylle med kortstokk?
Wow....looking at his skills, I can definitely say that I'm a huge waste of Oxygen
This Man is an inspiration
I wonder if they have to be new decks, like if they have creases folds etc does that effect how they feel? what if i took a knife and put notches in all the sides?
Turner has explained on a few occasions that he's VERY specific with how he prefers the cards to feel. He has several hundred of decks from the same printing year because he thought it was a particularly good run (a difference that very few, if any, would care about). When opening a new deck he will typically file the sides of it on the edge of a desk or table, to smooth south the fine, rough points. If a deck is "defective" he will often send it back and note exactly how it's flawed, which are usually in ways so minor that nobody else would notice.
That flase cut at the end. I'm gonna try to do it.
Will give you an update soon.
I sat at the table with him during a demonstration back at Fiesta Texas back when it first opened. This was pre-Six Flags.
so.. how did he afford that house? It looked kinda nice + a gym?
You can tell a blind man cleans that pool.
How can he tell which card is which?
The clicking of the keyboards as they type out jealousy is apparent sight or not sight.
So he knows the exact set up of the deck ( all 52 cards) before he begins ?
he either just uses a brand new deck, or asks his wife or someone else to set it up for him.
Taylor Haws nope.. he can feel what every card is as he deals it. He can also 'fix' a deck after someone shuffles it, even if you take cards out of the deck he can tell how many cards were taken out just by feel. Watch Penn and Teller washboard shuffle his deck and he can still deal a perfect winning hand to a specific person.
What cards does he use?
I dont get it. How can he possibly know what card he has got if he cant see any of them. Unless the cards are marked or he isnt actually blind.
T-34 Bicycle gave him a lifetime supply as they tested him and he can actually feel the ink patterns on the cards.
The point isn’t for you to get it lol
Does anyone else think the move at the very end from under the glass table was incredible?
Whaaaaat? he has a black belt in karate???!!!!!!! how the hell is that working??????
touch him and find out.
It's actually a yellow belt. They just tell him it's black.
@@masonkane5884 lmao deadass
6the degree black belt. So he’s don’t it 7 times
dude ace of spades is kinda a badass name ngl especially born from this man
Ryen Colbar he does not spell it that way
He makes me feel so inadequate.
I do know he is what they call legally blind but i dont think he is fully 100% blind or maybe is now.
What a disrespectful comment, accusing someone of faking a life long disability. He trained more than 12 hours a day, everyday for 50 years to get to this point despite his handicap, and people like you have the insolence to delittle the efforts that this amazing man did. Just because you could never do something even nearly as noteworthy as what he did, it doesn't mean that someone can't reach these results despite the blindness. Have respect
+Lorenzo Falconieri That was not a disrespectful comment. Some people are legally blind but their vision isn't completely gone. He is not accusing him of cheating, he questioning wether he is 100 procent blind or if he still has some sight left.
+lessofyou He already did the same tricks totally blindfolded to prove that he really can do it totally blind.
+Lorenzo Falconieri damn son
at one time he had some peripheral vision but could see nothing straight ahead. I think it was later that he said he could sometimes vaguely see shadows.
“Blind card shark” like we don’t know who Richard turner is
Can anyone explain his sorcery!?!?!?! I understand how he has exceptional skills with cards (eg shuffling, card in hand tricks) But HOW DOES HE KNOW WHAT CARDS ARE WHICH?
***** LOL I very much doubt he can detect the individual weight of each card. I suspect he has some kind of non-visible marking on certain cards like a groove or a defect in the side of the aces for example. Lots of other card magicians use this sort of trick, so chances are he can't do this stuff without his own pre-prepared deck.
What's your point? He gave that deck to the guy to shuffle in the first place so it could still be primed with marks, blemishes, defects on the cards for identification through touch without observers knowing his trick.
Basically, he only needs to mark cards needed for his trick, the rest of the deck is just pointless fluff around it. So he can pick out aces as they have a tiny notch in one edge for example. Even if someone else shuffles the deck, he can still take it back and find the notches. Something like that :)
Absolutely legendary!
Twisted Fate Lee sin
lolol
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btw his "riffle is him putting the deck 2/3 of the way together and then splitting it again, and the "split" is a simple 3 stack fake cut. only trust shuffling done by the audience.
4:17👏
"money is not usually on the table"
- "Ohh no, another thousand dollars?"
i cant belive he is blind
he is blowing my mind
He must just hate how much of this has to do with his eyesight. I do wish they'd brought it up later than 56 seconds in.
"doesn't like to call himself a cheat" he literally used to go by Richard the cheat
Thank You Sir for inspiring all of us so very much! Love You Sir! :)
wow , GOD bless him ,
LIKE A BOSS , WELL DONE
Braille cards?
He's capable of feeling the ink patterns of rank and suit, so it is like braille. That way he can peel the top card off and before he deals it, he knows what it is. I've seen Mr. Turner do it in person.
I think he said he refuses to learn braille
He told a card company that they changed their ink, the company said no and they looked at it through a microscope and couldn't tell anything was different, but turned out the supplier for one of the materials in the ink had changed their source, so he just has a ridiculous sense of touch. Braille cards would ruin his game I bet
- Say what you just said...!
Yeah, b/c we all didn't listen to the blind man and need to hear it from you again.
This guy is absolutely badass
Watch the proper interview with this guy on valuentainment. Was asked to be involved in the mafia
This is the guy David Blaine was talking about on the JRE
My dads a card shark. Its pretty amazing what he can do!
So much respect!
Who would win in a gambling match? Richard Turner or Jotaro Kujo
One day I'm going to find this man, I'm going to tell him teach me your ways master.
That man has got awesome skills
Strong the force is in this one. Turn to the dark side he must not.
Living miracle, unbelievable.
This man is prodigy.
Couldn't he have called him Jack?
Amazing!!! Such an artist......!!
50-60 million times??? WHAT DRUGS ARE YOU ON???
Dedication
I believe Bruce Lee had a similar quote he followed. I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
He's, a card mechanic, not a cheat
gave him a virtuoso.
I have actually mastered the Turner Sweep Second. I have also developed sweeping techniques for bottom, second from bottom and centre deals. I am tempted to put the exact methods out in book or video form because it's a secret well worth doing. It has been the result of almost a decade of practice in dealing techniques and thousands of hours.
the dude is buff
@4:21 ok the dude literally repeats the line Richard Turner just said @3:53, but acts like it’s his own insight
Calling him a cheat is insulting.