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It's been a while since I played poker, but surely to do this you'd have to shuffle an out-of-order deck into the correct order while in public view? That sound
by hugh3 16y ago
It's been a while since I played poker, but surely to do this you'd have to shuffle an out-of-order deck into the correct order while in public view? That sounds like enough to make it "incredibly hard to cheat".
- slig 16y agoI think that it's called "cold deck" because the trick is to replace the playing deck with another one, that was perviously "prepared" into some specific permutation.
- dstorrs 16y agoExactly. The term comes from the way you spot the switch -- cards that have been being handled a lot warm up in the players' hands. If you touch the deck and it feels cool (i.e., it is room temperature), that means it just got introduced to play.