{"id":11425,"date":"2021-05-31T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:34:15","slug":"steve-forte-shows-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/31\/steve-forte-shows-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve  Forte Shows His Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/the-worlds-greatest-cardsharp-reveals-all\/ar-AAKBf4a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The LA Times via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The world&#8217;s greatest cardsharp reveals all<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Kevin Pang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Forte Tv Special - The best card cheater in the world - demon magic skills !\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfwvtMdZpec?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fremont Street, once the world capital of swank, used to be Steve Forte\u2019s turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on a spring day, he was just another face in a crowd, snaking through two relics of downtown Las Vegas, Binion\u2019s and the Four Queens casino. No one bothered the man many consider the greatest card handler who ever lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the world of casino experts and magicians, Forte handles a deck of playing cards the way Roger Federer wields a tennis racket. Not just among the best, but&nbsp;<em>the<\/em>&nbsp;best, full stop. In his hands, cards appear to shuffle but remain in perfect order. Cards apparently dealt from the top of the deck are taken invisibly from the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of being a reclusive figure, the 65-year-old Forte has published &#8220;Gambling Sleight of Hand,&#8221; his life\u2019s work of underground card moves in a two-volume book of nearly 1,100 pages. Among sleight-of-hand aficionados, the book was a once-in-a-lifetime sensation: Even at $300, the first printing of 1,000 sold out in one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this day, Forte agreed to visit places he doesn\u2019t have much use for now. But soon enough, he showed his skill, making jaw-dropping observations about the games unfolding around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/travel\/news\/the-worlds-greatest-cardsharp-reveals-all\/ar-AAKBf4a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times via MSN The world&#8217;s greatest cardsharp reveals all by Kevin Pang Fremont Street, once the world capital of swank, used to be Steve Forte\u2019s turf. But on a spring day, he was just another face in a crowd, snaking through two relics of downtown Las Vegas, Binion\u2019s and the Four Queens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}