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In an earlier article I discussed how seemingly impossible bad beats<\/a> can actually happen at the card table and how an inexperienced player might actually be suspicious of a crazy hand where four aces are beaten by a royal flush; whereas seasoned pros would simply add it to their back catalogue of crazy hands they\u2019ve witnessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, a\ncheater would avoid such \u2018Hollywood\u2019 endings and engineer more subtle\nsituations but in real life and in real card games, the seemingly impossible\nhappens all the time at tables all over the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being\nsaid, if it happens twice in one night, I\u2019d suggest finding another game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay Attention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gambling on\nanything forces the participants to pay attention to the outcome and notice\nwhen unusual or unlikely events take place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same number can come up several times in a row on a completely legitimate roulette<\/a> table purely by chance but try explaining that to the players, the dealers, the managers or the owners who will almost certainly tear down the rotor and oil every cog before putting it back on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better\nunderstand just how often seemingly impossible coincidences happen, I\u2019d like to\nshare a couple of personal stories to illustrate how circumstances can converge\nto create something almost magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following\nstory is 100% true and proves (at least to me) that anything is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Penn & Teller Coincidence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sometime in\nthe early 2000s, I was traveling around the United States giving lectures about\ndeception, sleight of hand and magic. I took the opportunity to see the\ncountry, drive from place to place and get to know America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I traveled,\nI was a slave to internet cafes or friends\u2019 computers in order to keep up with\nemails since at that time, I had no laptop and pocket devices such as\nBlackberries were new and prohibitively expensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My trip ended\nin Las Vegas where I was to attend a magicians\u2019 convention being held at the\nRio shortly after Penn and Teller had taken up residence there. I arrived a few\ndays early and met a friend from Scotland who was staying at the Sahara where\nwe shared a room for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day before\nthe convention, we had planned to visit a friend who showed us his collection\nof gambling and cheating paraphernalia during the day while at night, my\nScottish friend had a ticket to see \u201cO\u201d at the Bellagio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not have\na ticket but had plans to meet friends Mike and Lisa Close for dinner at the\nbuffet but when we met them, I found they were sick and had decided not to stay\nfor dinner and because I was hard to contact (I had no US cell phone either)\nthey felt obliged to come and tell me in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, they\nwere both at the tail end of a bad flu and when they headed back home, I was\nsuddenly alone in Las Vegas with nothing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a\nfamiliar situation to many people who\u2019ve spent time in Vegas and some stories\nend much worse than this one (perhaps in a motel bathtub missing a kidney) but\nwhile I was now on my own, I knew that a short taxi ride away I could find a\nhotel filled with fellow magicians, many of whom I knew well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At that time,\nI\u2019d never been to the Rio so was curious to check it out since we\u2019d be moving\nthere for the convention the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving at\nthe hotel, I quickly navigated the gaming the floor on the lookout for familiar\nfaces and at the bar, spotted someone I knew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chatted for\nabout 20 minutes before his girlfriend arrived and I realised they were on\ntheir only night together before the convention and I should probably leave\nthem to enjoy their own company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alone again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was almost\nnine o\u2019clock so I decided that I would find the convention centre before\nheading back to the Sahara for an early night since the rest of the week was\nguaranteed to be crazy-busy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the\ncasino, the convention centre is reached via a long hallway and about halfway\ndown that hallway I saw a good friend smoking a cigarette. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This would change everything since that friend was also a blackjack<\/a> expert and I knew we\u2019d spend hours in the cafe as I traded card tricks in return for picking his brain into the wee-small hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tapped him\non the shoulder: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMike! How are\nyou?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQuick, this\nway,\u201d he replied, taking my elbow and marching me out of the hallway and into a\ntheatre where he handed over two tickets before showing me to our seats in the\nPenn and Teller Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show was\nalready starting, and I spend the next 90 minutes baffled by the magic on stage\nand by how the hell I found myself watching it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the show\nbroke, we pushed our way into the lobby where a hundred friends were leaving\nthe same show and it took another 30 minutes of shaking hands, hugging and\npromising to get together before Mike and I were alone in the coffee shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I was\nable to ask him: \u201cWhat just happened?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He looked at\nme, puzzled by the question, so I reminded him that I just said hello to him in\na corridor and was whisked off to a free show without so much as a\nby-your-leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still baffled,\nMike said: \u201cDidn\u2019t you get my message?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next\nmoment is one of the most bizarre of my life as I sat in the middle of my own\npersonal dolly zoom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I had\nbeen mostly incommunicado and traveling around the States, Mike had scored a\ncouple of tickets for Penn and Teller and hearing that I might attend the\nconvention that followed, had reached out to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not on email\nbut on a message board for magicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His message\nwas: R. Paul Wilson – If you are in Las Vegas the night before the World\nMagic Seminar, meet me at nine o\u2019clock outside the Penn and Teller Theatre, I\nhave an extra ticket.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After weeks on\nthe road, and after a dozen tiny events and decisions – and without any idea\nwhatsoever about that message from Mike – I just happened to walk down the\nright corridor at the right time to make a rendezvous I had no idea was meant\nto happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No one\nbelieves this story, least of all Mike who posted the message and was not at\nall surprised by my arrival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, when I\ntried to convince over late-night waffles, he refused to buy a word of it yet\nit\u2019s completely true and still baffles me to this day but as I said previously:\nthese types of impossible coincidences are supposed to happen from time to\ntime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nunfathomable random events tumble like infinite-sided dice, occasionally the\noutcome will seem impossible when in fact, it\u2019s just one of a gazillion\npossibilities that we just happen to notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, A Confession<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a basement in Los Angeles, I was asked to spend time with one of the world\u2019s biggest A-list actors to show him what was possible with a deck of cards<\/a> as inspiration for a role he was about to play in the film I was working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With me was\none of the world\u2019s finest sleight of hand magicians and together we showed some\ncard tricks and moves and got the actor suitably excited to play the part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But towards\nthe end, he asked me to show the \u201creal work\u201d, so I invited his brother to\nshuffle the deck and deal any number of five-card hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had already\npalmed out a straight flush and when I was given a hand, I immediately switched\nall five cards while the actor, his brother and my friend<\/em> checked their\nhands and all agreed they would bet heavily after taking a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My fellow\nmagician was utterly astonished to find that I not only had the straight flush\nbut that he had a flush, while the other two had a full house and a four of a\nkind! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What really\nbaffled him was that the actor\u2019s brother had shuffled, dealt, and handed me the\nfive cards that I switched out – I never touched the rest of the deck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this day,\nit probably still troubles him since I never tipped the switch or any of the\nother details and since he missed that switch, what chance did he have to\nrealise the truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what\nreally happened: while my hand was a lock, the others were down to pure chance\nand I had just gotten fantastically lucky at exactly the right time and in\nexactly the right place – their hands were pure luck and nothing else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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