Three Card Monte
Cards are dealt one face-down to each player, followed by two face-up to each player. The dealer will determine beforehand if there is a betting round preceding the first card dealt face-up, but at the very least, one betting round will ensue the dealing of each of the two face-up cards.
There are a number of ways to determine what hand beats what hand in Three-Card Monte, but below are three common examples:
Variations
There are three elements used to manipulate players in a game of Three Card Monte: knowledge, arrogance and deception. Female members of the crew are well-practiced manipulators who lean into any. The 3 card Monte is an old trick. It goes back all the way to the 15th century, and it can be used by magicians as an illusion. Also, by con artists as a way to take money from an unsuspecting mark. Here's a video tutorial on how to do the 3 card monte card trick.
- Dec 22, 2015 As soon as we saw it was obvious to us it was a three-card monte scam, where in fact there were around 4-5 scammers ‘playing’, 2-3 scouts (looking for cops) and then actually only really 1 or 2 ‘marks’.
- The three card monte magic trick is one of THE most famous card tricks in history. It’s definitely a trick that every magician should learn sooner or later. But there’s so many different versions of the three card monte that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Version #1 (based only on possible poker hands with three cards)
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-of-a-kind
Version #2 (based on the conventional rank of poker hands, with the exception of the Straight Flush)
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-card Straight
- Three-card Flush
- Three-card Straight Flush
- Three-of-a-kind
Version #3 (based on the actual odds of being dealt each hand)
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-card Flush
- Three-card Straight
- Three-of-a-kind
- Three-card Straight Flush
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