Blind card shark amazes with his astounding skills

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  • čas přidán 10. 02. 2014
  • 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.

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  • @yoloswaggins1579
    @yoloswaggins1579 Před 7 lety +109

    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.

    • @tonty1993
      @tonty1993 Před 7 lety +2

      Just watched this video and all i have to say is WOW!

  • @holdouts
    @holdouts Před 8 lety +299

    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.

    • @mrselfdestruct1180
      @mrselfdestruct1180 Před 5 lety +6

      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.

    • @hawaiianprestigecars8493
      @hawaiianprestigecars8493 Před 5 lety +1

      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+

    • @IAMCHETANSAMEER
      @IAMCHETANSAMEER Před 5 lety +24

      @@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

    • @hawaiianprestigecars8493
      @hawaiianprestigecars8493 Před 5 lety +3

      Sam yeah I only recently saw he doesn’t do his best tricks on camera.

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie Před 5 lety +5

      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.

  • @GearHeadz101
    @GearHeadz101 Před 9 lety +109

    That last move is out of this world.

  • @tedective4427
    @tedective4427 Před 4 lety +76

    Richard Turner: "I'm a card mechanic."
    CBS: "He's cheating, but that's okay because he's blind."

    • @r0bw00d
      @r0bw00d Před 4 lety +2

      No, it's OK because he's not hustling anyone.

  • @CreatixMusic
    @CreatixMusic Před 8 lety +25

    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 .

  • @Siscast
    @Siscast Před 8 lety +466

    The biggest cheat of em all. Would be if he is actually not blind.

    • @TheRealSpencerMarks
      @TheRealSpencerMarks Před 6 lety +22

      YES ... he most certainly is blind.

    • @joeashbubemma
      @joeashbubemma Před 6 lety +13

      I don't know about that. What he can do would be impressive for sighted people as well.

    • @d.y.358
      @d.y.358 Před 5 lety +1

      No. That would be a miracle.

    • @jangtheconqueror
      @jangtheconqueror Před 5 lety +17

      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

    • @ardaorhan
      @ardaorhan Před 5 lety +5

      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.

  • @wirmackt
    @wirmackt Před 9 lety +74

    who are those 20 thumbs down idiots??
    U are the MAN Mr Turner

  • @Alienous
    @Alienous Před 10 lety +31

    "No matter what hand you're dealt ..."
    Ba dum tssssh! What a badass.

  • @doctordrone5692
    @doctordrone5692 Před 5 lety +2

    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.

  • @Siscast
    @Siscast Před 8 lety +55

    the real life gambit

  • @austinl169
    @austinl169 Před 3 lety

    I was looking up professional card tricks when I happened across this story. Great job, CBS This Morning! A well-told story. 👍👍👍

  • @KAP_
    @KAP_ Před 10 lety +21

    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.

    • @bareflanks4267
      @bareflanks4267 Před 10 lety +18

      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

    • @mikieswart
      @mikieswart Před 10 lety +5

      Bare Flanks Probably autocorrect. That crazy autocorrect, always doing silly shit.

    • @erebostd
      @erebostd Před 10 lety +1

      Bare Flanks Its also a car model from VW ;-)

  • @aylamiller5752
    @aylamiller5752 Před 4 lety +1

    Okay that last move with the ace is a really good slight of hand 😩😩👏👏

  • @ruzziantaco
    @ruzziantaco Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @petarkuveljic9107
    @petarkuveljic9107 Před 8 lety +6

    Amazing, big respect for Richard.

  • @ShotTower1
    @ShotTower1 Před 10 lety +18

    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.

    • @ahhhbree11
      @ahhhbree11 Před 10 lety +4

      There's a documentary being made about this guy's amazing story! Check out DEALTmovie.com to find out more info!

    • @blugobln85
      @blugobln85 Před 10 lety +1

      I know, mate, I wasn't fully convinced until that moment. But WOW. Flawless, every time...

  • @lronWill
    @lronWill Před 7 lety +4

    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.

  • @TrashSocksGaming
    @TrashSocksGaming Před 10 lety +2

    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.

  • @neutralspirit
    @neutralspirit Před 3 lety +2

    "but then, neither could he."
    guy in the editing room: "nice."

  • @keithsims6834
    @keithsims6834 Před 3 lety +4

    This dude is so good he can manipulate online poker.

  • @akgbkc
    @akgbkc Před 6 lety

    mind boggling talent and astonishing hard work. Hats off !

  • @stryk187
    @stryk187 Před 10 lety +5

    *THAT'S* dedication!

  • @theundertaker5963
    @theundertaker5963 Před 14 dny

    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!

  • @baburao8262
    @baburao8262 Před 3 lety +1

    1:53 that's actually quite realistic sound

  • @giantchamp415
    @giantchamp415 Před 4 lety

    he deals from the bottom and the bottom of the top card so good. he's the best mechanic ever.

  • @woody41165
    @woody41165 Před 7 lety

    I am literally speechless at this guys incredible skills.

  • @diycarfix7021
    @diycarfix7021 Před 4 lety +2

    That last move was insane!! 🤷‍♂️

  •  Před 7 lety +14

    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".

  • @UncaTammyShow
    @UncaTammyShow Před 8 lety +3

    Amazing! A true professional

  • @provakarroychy1535
    @provakarroychy1535 Před 6 lety

    Thank You Sir for inspiring all of us so very much! Love You Sir! :)

  • @andywillhite
    @andywillhite Před 6 lety +1

    That last move with the Ace! Damn.

  • @NRSessions
    @NRSessions Před 7 lety +4

    So this guy says, "Pick a card. Don't let me see it." 😆😁😄😃😀

    • @HuslWusl
      @HuslWusl Před 5 lety

      Or "Pick a card. It doesn't matter if you show it to me."

  • @littledeel
    @littledeel Před 6 lety +1

    Guy has insane skills. Amazing.

  • @Fullkrom
    @Fullkrom Před 10 lety +5

    "sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand"

    • @Raao1
      @Raao1 Před 4 lety

      Cool Hand Luke ftw

  • @M-E-G-A
    @M-E-G-A Před 8 lety

    I remember him from the TV show: Ripley's Believe it or Not. He was amazing then and he's amazing now.

  • @PulseRELOADED
    @PulseRELOADED Před 2 lety

    This Man is an inspiration

  • @darkmagician9570
    @darkmagician9570 Před 8 lety +1

    So much respect!

  • @redandlippyproductions

    Absolutely legendary!

  • @FantasticPickle
    @FantasticPickle Před 10 lety +8

    black belt? thats so cool

  • @manumuskin
    @manumuskin Před 8 lety +10

    richard is better than card cheats that can see :)

  • @dorkinabubble7772
    @dorkinabubble7772 Před 2 lety

    His wife has to KEEP HIM from shuffling cards in church. Hysterical!!

  • @dedenyt
    @dedenyt Před 4 lety +7

    It is I the shuffle master!! *appears from smoke*

  • @Cccc-ky4vq
    @Cccc-ky4vq Před 3 lety

    No one will ever be as good as him no one’s putting in that type of work

  • @ret4kind
    @ret4kind Před 10 lety +36

    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.

    • @atnasingetnamn2887
      @atnasingetnamn2887 Před 10 lety +2

      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.

    • @ret4kind
      @ret4kind Před 10 lety +1

      Atnas Ingetnamn He has so much DISCIPLINE!

  • @creatip123
    @creatip123 Před 9 lety +2

    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?

  • @michelangelonovelli3421

    Richard Turner is the number 1 !

  • @Creuzillion
    @Creuzillion Před 7 lety +15

    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.

  • @SiboWoW
    @SiboWoW Před 3 lety +4

    He practices somuch that his wife can actually mimic perfectly the sound of a deck being shuffled.
    LOL.

  • @raymondflowers2167
    @raymondflowers2167 Před 7 lety

    I sat at the table with him during a demonstration back at Fiesta Texas back when it first opened. This was pre-Six Flags.

  • @chipperP
    @chipperP Před 7 lety

    Amazing!!! Such an artist......!!

  • @muizkhan8063
    @muizkhan8063 Před 8 lety

    That man has got awesome skills

  • @Antwansauce
    @Antwansauce Před 10 lety

    My dads a card shark. Its pretty amazing what he can do!

  • @sdch8446
    @sdch8446 Před 7 lety +1

    i cant belive he is blind
    he is blowing my mind

  • @g00thier
    @g00thier Před 10 lety

    "money is not usually on the table"
    - "Ohh no, another thousand dollars?"

  • @shaneintegra
    @shaneintegra Před 6 lety

    This guy is absolutely badass

  • @Obsidian104
    @Obsidian104 Před 10 lety +2

    The clicking of the keyboards as they type out jealousy is apparent sight or not sight.

  • @palestiniananger7857
    @palestiniananger7857 Před 8 lety +6

    wow , GOD bless him ,
    LIKE A BOSS , WELL DONE

  • @QuangLe-qk3nv
    @QuangLe-qk3nv Před 2 lety

    People: "How do you fight when you can't see?"
    Richard: "I don't know, come fight me and find out." -

  • @BamaShanks
    @BamaShanks Před 5 lety

    You can tell a blind man cleans that pool.

  • @TheFunDigger
    @TheFunDigger Před 6 lety

    Living miracle, unbelievable.

  • @michaelnguyen823
    @michaelnguyen823 Před 5 lety

    He makes me feel so inadequate.

  • @duncanbleak3819
    @duncanbleak3819 Před 4 lety

    Wow...Inspirational!

  • @tacticalchunder1207
    @tacticalchunder1207 Před 6 lety

    This man is prodigy.

  • @ryencolbar4900
    @ryencolbar4900 Před 4 lety

    dude ace of spades is kinda a badass name ngl especially born from this man

    • @39zack
      @39zack Před 4 lety

      Ryen Colbar he does not spell it that way

  • @sunnyabrahamkonethe9184
    @sunnyabrahamkonethe9184 Před 5 lety +6

    4:17👏

  • @rishi9759
    @rishi9759 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow....looking at his skills, I can definitely say that I'm a huge waste of Oxygen

  • @llllllllllllily
    @llllllllllllily Před 10 lety +1

    this is a really admirable man i've accomplished absolutely SHIT and I have my eyesight

  • @gameandroid
    @gameandroid Před 5 lety

    One day I'm going to find this man, I'm going to tell him teach me your ways master.

  • @JayQuek
    @JayQuek Před 6 lety

    That flase cut at the end. I'm gonna try to do it.
    Will give you an update soon.

  • @MuizzTheBoy02
    @MuizzTheBoy02 Před 8 lety

    gave him a virtuoso.

  • @taylerdurden14
    @taylerdurden14 Před 8 lety +18

    Whaaaaat? he has a black belt in karate???!!!!!!! how the hell is that working??????

    • @arondj
      @arondj Před 5 lety +8

      touch him and find out.

    • @masonkane5884
      @masonkane5884 Před 5 lety +10

      It's actually a yellow belt. They just tell him it's black.

    • @og_loud5712
      @og_loud5712 Před 5 lety +2

      @@masonkane5884 lmao deadass

    • @samgardner4667
      @samgardner4667 Před 5 lety +1

      6the degree black belt. So he’s don’t it 7 times

  • @HankTheTank23
    @HankTheTank23 Před 7 lety

    Does anyone else think the move at the very end from under the glass table was incredible?

  • @EntertainingWaveOfficial

    Respect!

  • @griffindight7238
    @griffindight7238 Před 3 lety

    “Blind card shark” like we don’t know who Richard turner is

  • @bryanbaik3048
    @bryanbaik3048 Před 6 lety

    this man is a badass

  • @axxo798
    @axxo798 Před 10 lety +1

    the dude is buff

  • @Cccc-ky4vq
    @Cccc-ky4vq Před 2 lety

    Amazing

  • @DaWoWzer
    @DaWoWzer Před 3 lety

    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?

    • @richards.5964
      @richards.5964 Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @ambroseho584
    @ambroseho584 Před 5 lety

    LEGEND!

  • @chriswilson1968
    @chriswilson1968 Před 4 lety

    But how can he deal certain cards without seeing the face values? Does he just handle them?

  • @EmEsjay1
    @EmEsjay1 Před 4 lety

    Strong the force is in this one. Turn to the dark side he must not.

  • @tonyjimenez1268
    @tonyjimenez1268 Před 6 lety

    What cards does he use?

  • @Av4k
    @Av4k Před 10 lety +22

    Twisted Fate Lee sin

  • @fredricful
    @fredricful Před 3 lety

    Vorfor kann jeg megselv trylle med kortstokk?

  • @cosmiccheetah6906
    @cosmiccheetah6906 Před 10 lety

    Very cool!

  • @michaelfsolis
    @michaelfsolis Před 3 lety

    This is the guy David Blaine was talking about on the JRE

  • @wowwee8562
    @wowwee8562 Před 4 lety

    How can he tell which card is which?

  • @OoxTruExoO
    @OoxTruExoO Před 10 lety +8

    Braille cards?

    • @sainanan
      @sainanan Před 10 lety +14

      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.

    • @antoniodiavolo
      @antoniodiavolo Před 6 lety +1

      I think he said he refuses to learn braille

    • @jangtheconqueror
      @jangtheconqueror Před 5 lety +3

      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

  • @TaylorSwift1337
    @TaylorSwift1337 Před 10 lety

    so.. how did he afford that house? It looked kinda nice + a gym?

  • @patricky9
    @patricky9 Před 8 lety +2

    So he knows the exact set up of the deck ( all 52 cards) before he begins ?

    • @taylorhaws6402
      @taylorhaws6402 Před 6 lety

      he either just uses a brand new deck, or asks his wife or someone else to set it up for him.

    • @QargZer
      @QargZer Před 6 lety +7

      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.

  • @JBehnen
    @JBehnen Před 10 lety

    - 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.

  • @Dumm11111
    @Dumm11111 Před 2 lety

    Wunderbar

  • @JackTR21
    @JackTR21 Před 4 lety

    "doesn't like to call himself a cheat" he literally used to go by Richard the cheat

  • @quoodle9883
    @quoodle9883 Před 6 lety

    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.

  • @stingreen
    @stingreen Před 6 lety

    Read malcolm gladwell's outliers book. You'll understand.

  • @jrflll
    @jrflll Před 9 lety +11

    I do know he is what they call legally blind but i dont think he is fully 100% blind or maybe is now.

    • @lorenzofalconieri2679
      @lorenzofalconieri2679 Před 9 lety +15

      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

    • @lessofyou
      @lessofyou Před 8 lety +6

      +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.

    • @LorenzoStroe
      @LorenzoStroe Před 8 lety +5

      +lessofyou He already did the same tricks totally blindfolded to prove that he really can do it totally blind.

    • @mr.manlyheartguy6792
      @mr.manlyheartguy6792 Před 8 lety +1

      +Lorenzo Falconieri damn son

    • @forgiven36511
      @forgiven36511 Před 6 lety

      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.

  • @jrflll
    @jrflll Před 9 lety

    the best of all time i think i might start practicing 10hrs a day

  • @willsuttie3683
    @willsuttie3683 Před 10 měsíci

    Couldn't he have called him Jack?

  • @RavenFailed
    @RavenFailed Před 5 lety

    Who would win in a gambling match? Richard Turner or Jotaro Kujo

  • @enigma9306
    @enigma9306 Před 7 lety

    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.