Originally Posted by MaxPen View Post
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
MaxPen think about it for a moment. What percentage of two decks is made up of tens?

Player inserts the cut card, after the tens are clumped.

Now what is the likelihood that the clump of tens is preserved? And what is the likelihood that the clump of tens is moved to the back of the two decks so they are not dealt?

This magician would not only be able to clump the tens but would have to be a psychic to know where the player inserts the cut card.

In fact he claimed that ability. See:

I would purposely keep a "chunk" of 10s and Aces in an area that most people would cut out and wind up behind the cut card via offset shuffling. You really see this in 2 Deck games

And he did this with only two decks which gives him virtually no margin for error.
4/13 or slightly over 30%.
Now answer my questions instead of asking more. This is why you are just hopeless. Clue_It makes no difference if they're dealt or not
Thirty percent... and that 30% clump survives the cut card and the cut? And just what percentage of the time does that happen with two decks?