Three Card Monte Scam in London | Steven Bridges
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If you ‘got it right every time’ that still won’t help. The scammer can still switch the card before turning it over, or another one of their team will bet on a different card and they ‘will have to take the larger bet’.
These scammers do this every day and a smart team have planned for the worst case scenario.
The best thing you can do is steer well clear.
I don't get it!
Jarno Saarinen what is it that you don't get?
Exactly, Steve. Some of the comments are hilarious, with people saying that they can follow the card, or they know how the trick is done, so they're going to win some money. Delusional.
And why police don't catch them knowing they're all scammers?
My friend is doing this for over 11 years now...
hahahah omg I'm an idiot, when he kept saying paul I would have just kept saying my own name for an hour, he actually caught on quicker than me for sure lol
Yeah, exactly. After the third time he asked, I would have started getting angry and calling him names. So stupid I am:(
Demasturbot LOL "my names paul you idiot, f*cking PAUL!"
Im way dumber than you. I just realize that after reading your comment.
Paul is actually in on the scam to make this video work.
Same.
What if he never caught on and just kept saying his name was Paul
Then he'd be imPaulite
Paul is actually in on the scam to make this video work.
We are asking the important questions about this video.
Obviously, that is dave, not Paul lol
😂😂👌🏽
It's actually scary when you realize that when you see those scams on the street there's a crowd, and most of them are with the dealer who try to reel some poor soul in, surrounded in scammers
and your pocket will get picked while you watch!
These are already known as obvious scams to anyone who's ever watched a movie from about 1978 to early 2005.
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@@repentoryouwilllikewiseper8741 how boring, accept what I say without proof or suffer forever while I smugly mock you. Move on
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Steven: What's your name?
Paul: Paul
Steven: What's your name?
Paul: Paul
S: What's your name?
P: I can do this all day
XDD
this was really interesting to watch. nice one Steven.
Thanks Mike! :D
Hey, Mike.
Hello mike
Howdy mike
Hey Mike, you wont probably see this. But Learnign the monte scam isn't that hard. I recommend you try it for one of your videos, and try to disclose as little as the method as possible. Just an idea. ;)
I was waiting for the reveal the whole time and it never came..
Play in slow-mo, i saw how it all happened.^^
U're welcome.^^
Doctor Reality how do you explaing the 3 queens at the end? And the bent card switching from the queen being bent to the joker being bent?
@@darkspartan6964 The 3 queens came from his wallet. It is simple but clever.
Dark Spartan69 it’s called sleight of hand
u got scammed
Plot twist: Paul is Dave, onlookers are currently being scammed into trusting Steven
Lol
The way you weave the stories into the magic is so engaging, this was such a lovely video
Thanks so much! Did a lot of work on this one
Definitely shows, the way you had the audience's attention and the timing of the humour landed really well
Yep it makes it much more interesting to be a story than to be "look how I can deceive you".
@@stevenbridges Really do they still do it? are people so stupid they have never heard of magicians or card tricks?
2:07 loving the queens in his pocket there
OverDose Good find!
OverDose OMG ur such a frickin Genius with an eye of an eagle mannn!!!
OverDose niceeeee
Yes, that’s the scam
0:01 also cards in his pocket there. You're welcome.
Here's the trick: Don't play any street gambling games, because they're all probably scams. In fact, don't gamble at all, because even regulated casinos are a scam.
how are them a scam if they're "regulated"?
@@durich8081 if the casino didn't make money, the casino wouldn't exist. Machines are required to pay out a % of the time and a % of the income. It is also common for casino's to break regulations and change the % wins even lower or % payout even less
Yeah, instead play mobile phone games from the play store that pay you in totally useless points.
@@durich8081 Because it’s always rigged in the casino’s favor. You will never make money from gambling in the long term.
@@Corzappy what about baccarat?
AND depending on where the scam is happening, someone in the crowd could just grab your wallet and run. Remember these people are scammers, they don't care about winning the "right" way. Almost everyone in that crowd is in on the scam
I've seen this done in NY. Also, even though Steven talked about others being part of the team, you need to know that it's usually not just the people that win that are part of the team. There are also lookouts and pickpockets that can be part of the team. So even if you don't play, if you stop to watch, be VERY careful.
Absolutely! It's really not a good place to be at all
I'd love to sit on a bench and just watch this whole play unfold and making them uneasy by just looking at them all the time.
If they think you know what is going on, they might approach you (I've had this happen). I didn't feel threatened (but I'm also a big guy), but probably should have. It was more of a, "Hey, you look like you know what's going on, don't ruin it for us and we won't have a problem with each other."
What if you know how the scam works and you tell the guy moving the cards "you need to work on your top throw a bit?" :)
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Actually even the ones who know how to do that get fooled. Of course the dealer should be really good, but I suppose that all of them are good enough, since they don't fear to perform outside.
The real scam is telling people they're watching a scam so that they're impressed and then give you money anyway...dun.dun.DUUUUNNN.
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😂😂😂
@Josh D lol.
@Josh D actually this happens a lot nowadays
Josh D only if I nut
I feel scammed after watching this video because you didn't actually show how it works.🤔
pause at 1:02
Sleight of hand mostly, a bit of misdirection as well
yes, the joker slides unto the queen card and falls onto the table
The main move is to release the top card instead of the bottom card being shown.
When he has the queen visible, there's a joker on top of it. He then *appears* to slam the queen down, but is actually dropping a joker (the top card) and keeping the queen in his hand.
If you take this information back into the video, you'll be able to see the basics of the scam at work.
But don't go thinking you know how to beat the game now...there are MANY more moves that can be employed to ensure profit for the scammers. Just stay away - no exceptions!
You are not supposed to know because he is a professional magician, whose abilities are far above those 3-card monte scamsters. Pros never reveal the secret to their high-end tricks.
Apparently, he felt confident enough to do this trick on camera knowing that the secret won't be revealed, even if the video is played back in slow motion.
Another big part of this scam is the pickpocket hanging round to see where you keep your money or if you have any other valuables on you.
I've never seen this scam performed IRL before, but I've heard of it many times. People will always lose playing at it. I'm so glad you did this video Steven because it can help others avoid being taken! : )
Thanks Jamie! Fun and educational ay
Definitely! :)
i actually learnt the scam and i can beat the scam. they take the card and put it below but they throw down the card at the top. won 3 times in a row and dealer hated me and asked me to leave.
brysonszy lol I'd scam them straight back lose a 100 dollars and then bet 1000 or 500 and win and fuck them over
then it wasnt a scam if u won
a smith and wesson beats four aces -Monty's Law
same to me in greece m8 old guys doing but i can beat the scum same , they trow the top card tricking your aye that they throw the queen but they dont. i won 200 euros and they told me toleave multiple times they are 5 old guys lol
thinly sliced cabbage in a mayonnaise sauce - Cole's Law
The kid at the end started recording when it ended😂
Phill Tony the moment when you realize you are watching a magic trick
haha i am that kid xD
that was SOOOO well done !! Kudos, you are a master of your craft. I completely enjoyed watching that.
Wow! The bending of the Q's corner was a fantastic touch!
Glad you liked it!
Bending the corner was described in Steven King's "The Dead Zone". Never saw it actually done that way, though.
Michael Vincent actually did the same trick with the bent corner at Magic Castle.
i remember this happened to me once. I knew what the guy was doing, but I acted like I Had no idea. I was up $40 and i suddenly acted like I had a phone call and acted distracted and attempted to walk away. I was like thanks for the game see you next time.
I attempted to walk away but he had 2 other male individuals step in front of me. He then was like "hey man what the fuck the game is not over yet".
I thought since I knew the scam I could beat him and take HIS money. Long story short I almost got in a fight over $40 and realized my odds were 3:1 so I gave the scammer back his money and walked off.
Stay strapped kids
Almost played his ass funny af
I came here from your newer card counting content and I have to say, this is awesome!
Watching this 4years later. Still brilliant! 👍
You make it look so effortless like you're just having fun. Great video Steven keep up the great work!
I seen this performed In Benidorm and returned there 5 years later and the " plant " who won was there again , gread vid mate !!
I've seen different people do this 3-card monte scam more than a dozen times in major cities. The one time that an actual player spotted the right card, when the scammer started reaching for his wallet to pay the player, a person in the crowd - who was working with the scammer, of course - loudly shouted, "Police. We gotta run!" The scammer ran off immediately, even leaving behind the cheap wooden table and the three cards. Of course, there wasn't actually any police officers around - that was just their way of literally running away so they don't have to pay out.
you have a wild imagination
SO PERFECTLY PERFORMED!! Great banter as well! 👏👏👏♥️🇨🇦
Very kind of you 😃
Great video! I love the way you interact with the audience. I've seen the scam in New York City. Thankfully my dad taught me at a young age to never bet on another man's game.
Thanks very much! I've seen it in London and Paris a LOT
Vegas too.
Are you now only performing on bridges?
Nat Kunin well, it is right in his name after all...😉
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Thank you for showing this to the world
I saw this exact same thing when I worked in New York City in the 1980s. They had the bent card and they had schills too. A guy who worked at my company lost three $20 bets in less than a minute. The cool thing was it was on a narrow street and they had guys stationed at each end of the block. When a policeman would come around that street, those guys would yell something in Spanish, and poof, the cardboard card stand was gone in an instant. If you didn't know better, your $20 was lost in a second. And lots of people didn't know better.
Gypsies tried to con me with this trick in Paris. The only problem they had was that only gypsies were bidding. I immediately realised that they all working together. The guy doing the trick should have found some french people to work with him, it would have been more convencing then.
Yeah that's a big issue with it. You need a culturally diverse group to make it look convincing.
Ahhhhhh
@@stevenbridges The people who are in on it are as evil as the guy at the front. What you're doing isn't evil because you aren't scamming people but I would be fine with a group of thirty people showing up, watching to see who is in on it, staying there until it breaks up, and five of them each following a scammer and cornering them and demanding the money back. These are evil people. I think scammers deserve extremely harsh punishment, trading on people's innocent trust as they do. In their mind that makes the mark deserve being scammed. In my mind their conduct makes them deserve treatment I won't write here but it wouldn't always be something that would allow a fresh start. Ever.
I distinctly remember my dad falling for 3-Card Monte in NYC over 30 years ago when I was about 9 years old. I still don't understand how it works, but at least I learned the valuable lesson not to fall for it!
Ah that's a shame! It's been going on for hundreds of years.
The dealer is basically in control the entire time. No matter which card you choose, even if you get it right, they can change the outcome.
@@stevenbridges How are the chances if a 3-Card Monte dealer/magician plays (undercover) against a 3-Card Monte scammer?
@@AdioAurel sick movie plot bruh, and then There's a gang war between underground dark magicians
@@AdioAurel the chances are still zero but maybe they'll recognize the sleights. The magician would just know not to play. The problem isn't that it's hard to follow; the problem is that they can literally change the card as they're flipping it over.
@@stevenbridges huh?
Why didn't you show that on the video 😂 I still wanna know how the scam is done. You just said it was one.
Very well done and very quick!
Amazing bruh! Massive respect✊
I actually won this game and took the guy for $200 so i doubled my money. He was pissed off and people were screaming at him to give me the money.
His "accomplices" actually left pissed off and I walked over to a hotel I wasn't staying at and walked around to different hotels till I got to mine and never saw the guys again.
freestylegreek do you know how the trick is done?
Yes its done by slight of hand.
freestylegreek
Yes. Happened to me in Germany. I won five hands and finally a buddy tapped me on the shoulder said "Let's go". Being Military I knew the tone. What he told me later was there were guys totally NOT Interested in the game but ME. We walked back on bright open sidewalks all the way home. He told me later that if I won any more I'd not have collected it. He was street smart while I was from a small town kid just happy to win free money. Unfortunately for the dealer I had very good hand eye coordination. Fortunately for me I had a buddy who knew what time it was and possibly saved my butt.
Rxonmymind that's exactly it....you win big , your gonna get robbed.
Carlos Hernandez yes i do
I never thought I'd wish for a video to be vertical
Such an amazing video make sure u di another videos 💯⛓🕊
Really Smooth slight of hand with the cards when you brought your wallet it! Caught me the first time off guard!
What an awesome trick! The audience participation was so humorous! Thank you for creating another video that made me smile =)
Thanks so much!
@@stevenbridgeshi Steve, I was hoping you’d show us how it actually worked? Like where does the queen go if it’s not the one everyone thinks it it
You sir are a magician.. You're slight of hand is impressive.. Even after being completely honest some people think they're so clever. If someone won, it just means the dealer needs more practice. I'm always impressed at the dexterity needed to palm objects. Great job!
Nicely done dude!
Hey steven thnx for your informative video, its the same concept ive come across on the westminster bridge of gypsies playing with a ball and 3 cups while i was travelling and making a video in London. ive placed your video link in my video description. thanks once again!
My dad told me about this game in Mexico, a guy played and when he didn't win he pulled out a gun and said show me all the cards, realized it was a scam and shot the guy in the head
lol is this some drug dealer show
I actually won in Germany at an innocent young age of 18. Winning a lot. I was good at hand eye coordination. My buddy MUCH wiser than me (later he told me) tapped me on the shoulder and said "let's go". I won five rounds. Well it's late at night and and for whatever reason I headed his advice and we headed back home the long way on public street. If I had won anymore we wouldn't have made it home. He saw the men standing by that weren't interested in the game at all but followed us. He was street wise and I was just a dumb kid from a small town focused on winning "free" money. Nothing is free folks. I got lucky that day.
Sorry, no way. No monte mob EVER lets anybody win one cent. LOL: "good at hand-eye coordination." That has ZERO to do with it. The whole point of the con is to appeal to people's ego ("Wow, I can follow the card every time! I can win me some money here!") A 4-year-old could follow the card.
ofc they let you win. There is
1) the one that always scam
2) the ones that let you win and then make it more interesting after 2-3 tries (its not 20$ a try but its like 1-5$ a try and then they raise it to 50-100$ a try and then you start to loose -- but if you left after 2-3 1-5$ tries they let you go)
3) 2 but with violent guys making you play (you can call out others and get them that way, this one is the most unsave version unles all at the touristspot are with them and thats not the case)
Thank you! now I know what to expect 🙏🏼
Brilliantly done!
This was great I wish more people would out these people for their scams
tis is actually so good, even though you explained it all I still had no clue how it was done. love it and thanks for deterring me from being scammed!
Well the thing you need to know is to not play it hehe
I saw some scammers pulling this one near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. I stood there pointing and screaming "Scammers! This is a scam!" until they packed it in.
Turning three card monte into a street performance is an interesting way to use the skill ethically. Great show!
The guy is seriously skilled and charismatic. I know this is an old comment. But this same guy has become a card counter and produces excellent hidden camera blackjack videos now about trying to beat the casino. Highly recommend checking it out.
Same thing happened with me in italy.there were some guys with balls and cups.they mixed the cups and stuff and people always lost,unless some other guys won...my friend told me that he thinks that when you choose a cup,nothing will be there.the dealer will always have the ball in his hand.when he picks up the "right" cup,he drops the ball out of his hand,under the cup,in a way you cant see...
And boom.you lost all the money...
''There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.''
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Man your sleights are so clean it's frustrating, lol. I know what you're doing but I still can't see it, amazing skill
Thanks for exposing those scam card tricks! God bless you sir...
They do this right by my job here in Las Vegas, except the dealer had a stack of thousands of dollars. And well foolish tourists fall for it every day😂
So what if the police came in and saw you "hustling"? That would've been a great video...
he hasn't taken any money off anyone so please explain to me what exactly they would arrest him for?
I mean It would've been ironic since he was playing three card monte on the streets and held 20 pound in his hand... I'm just saying it would have been difficult to explain!
Yeah it was quite possible given that everything about it looked just like the legitimate scam. That's why I was careful to make my opening line 'this is a scam! not for money!'
I don't think you know what the word 'ironic' means.
not really since he had about a dozen witnesses. pretty easy to explain.
I learned absolutely nothing, but I was entertained
A fantastic display of sleight of hand. Well done in exposing the scam.
The guy in the end just casually holding a fork
I wasn’t even there and I feel like I got scammed. Worst part is I’m friends with the dealer!
You are abseloutly gem 💎. Thanks you for exposing scamers.
I was wondering when you'd get to the people in on it. That's a big part of the scam. I use to watch a team at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. They'd have people winning big as a way to attract suckers. They also had a guy at each end of the block watching out for the police and a runner or two. They set the game up on cardboard boxes and when the alert came, they just knocked everything over and walk away.
Seen this for decades in the USA, coast to coast, but I've never seen it done in London.
How this scam is still around is beyond me!
Every second one at least one idiot is born that’s the real reason why the game is still around.From the time I start writing at least 20 curious guys was born.What’s your name?
I remember seeing the Romanians doing this on the exact bridge in 2010. It was obvious fellow Romanians were in on the scam but my gf at the time who's a lawyer wanted to play. Funny how one can be so smart but not see a scam in front of them.
And I bet you are not that vocal about the Romanian doctors and nurses taking care of your people, or the Romanian engineers and construction workers building your infrastructure.
you thought to yourself why don't i work on destroying the reputation of millions of hard working people to soothe my broken ego
wait, you think lawyers are smart?
I saw this happening out in vegas years ago. I was walking back to my hotel and there was a group watching some guy do this right out in front. Someone was wise to the trick and screamed “it’s in your back pocket” as they walked away. (It actually was in their pocket) Almost immediately, two people from the crowd started following and harassing the person until security came out and chased them away.
Extraordinarily smooth..
The camera work is infuriating.
It's in on the trick
“What’s *YOU’RE* name??”
“Paul.”
“What’s your name??”
“Paul.”
“What’s your name??”
*“Boyinaband!”*
took me a while to realize it, nice one
I dont get it
Saw this scam when I was child, some things never gets old.
Nice. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed
It plays on the human fallacy that one can pay enough attention and make the right choice. The problem, as displayed here is that the game is rigged and there is no possible right choice to make. Gullibility. The sad thing, or maddening thing is that now everyone standing around these scams has a smartphone in the pocket that could have told them in seconds that it was a scam. People, stop believing what you are shown and told. Always verify everything involving your money. The saying “most people are good” is wrong. It should more accurately be “most people are deeply flawed, with complex behavior dictated in part by life stressors, unfortunate decisions and losses”
Plot twist, Dave's real name is Rodney... lovely jubbly!
I live in America but on my European vacation around a week ago I saw this scam on a bridge in London and a ton in Paris. My favorite part is when they’re team members stare at the money that they just “won” in shock.
Anyway, you got my like and a sub.
their not they're. get your ship together maam
Where you been all this time...I'm subscribing you
Saw this scam in New York. These 2 girls wanted to play but I told them not to since it's obviously a scam. And they didn't want $20. Minimum bet was like $100! Absolutely disgusting. There were 2 other people participating in the scam. They were the only ones who won so it was more than obvious.
Those 2 "winners" were the "shills," working with the dealer.
Why’s my man holding a fork in the green bomber jacket 😳😂
Watercooled Performance couldn’t of but it better myself babi
@random they need to ban racists like you!
A really well executed performance bravo! I just loved you way of handling the audience , very witty and funny but no where near the arrogance of some performers who I think have a bad case of "the magicians ego". Keep up the great work.... btw what are your thoughts on David Blaines "two card monte"? I suppose from a magicians perspective its a really simple trick but it gets huge reactions from the spectators
You are a Showman!!
Very informative but I already learned this on everybody hates chris lol
At 3:50 the dude is fixing to fork you if you don't pay him his winnings.
The first time I saw this was on an episode of House. I've never actually seen it in real life though whether in London or elsewhere.
I sat in a cafe in Paris and watched something very similar - their back was to the cafe window with the crowd gathered facing it. You could even pick out the half dozen other people involved dispersed around the crowd, as well as people keeping an eye out - I thought for the gendarmerie, but they passed and weren't bothered. Unfortunately people were playing and losing. It looked like a well organised gang and there were several of them on the same street, presumably all part of the same gang.
This scam is old, The Real Hustle did a similar thing
Playback Speed 0.25 @ 1:30 and you can see the slight of hand real good, props dude
Awsome job👍👍
Nice swap with the jokers when he pulled the wallet out. 2 card split in the right hand while he pulled the wallet with the left hand, had 2 queens under his wallet for a quick switch. Very smooth
Great job! Good thing you let the guy at the end win... looked like he was about to stab you with the fork in his hand.
I thought I was the only one that noticed the guy with random bent fork in his hand...
I Lost $300 on Las Vegas corner to this scam !
Unlucky man! An expensive lesson to learn :/
Idiot.
+mauriano baruso your own fault.
Amazing video 👍
Showmanship level is off the charts
I never had occsaion to try it. But I'm pretty sure if you bait against your "intuition" (created by the dealer) you can win. But pretty sure they will not let you go away with their money...
Btw I tried on the video and it worked. I wish I could try with you :D
It has literally nothing to do with intuition (or lack thereof) or being able to follow the right card though. You lose if the "dealer" wants you to lose.
Lol, I at first thought he was commenting over the video and repeating what the black shirt guy said probably because of some audio issues. It wasnt until 1:50 until I realized that the guy was actually him.
This was a scam in NYC decades ago. The video for Run-DMC "It's Tricky" shows 3-Card Monte with Penn and Teller as the dealers. From 1987
My grandfather taught me the card trick chase the lady. I used to use the trick at school to win dinner money & money for after school etc. Also can be funny to gamble with friends, acquaintances or people I've met in pubs/bars. Only for a drink or couple of quid.
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anyone notice the guy wearing sandals and socks in the back xd
Yeah, that's actually how the trick is done.
Yeah you are absolutely right..i have seen same thing in paris..3-4 people were playing like they dnt knew eachother but they were team..and after few minutes two innocent tourist lost 600 euros within a minute..
That swap at 2:03.... Very smooth. Great performance. Definitely a lot of practice went into this! Thanks for sharing