Over time the principle has been varied and new strategies added. While gambling literature seems remarkably silent on the issue magicians have published dozens if not hundreds of variations. This information then leaked into the wider magic community via Arthur Buckley (Card Control) and Bruce ElliottвЂ™s Phoenix magazine. Dai Vernon said he learned it from a Mexican gambler. The origin of what looks like a proposition bet remains a little hazy. Although the spectator is given all kinds of advantages by choosing first or looking at the faces of the cards, he always loses the game. Ten cards are shown and the spectator invited to choose five of them to make a poker hand. The premise of the Ten Card Deal is simple. Recently interest was piqued when Ricky Jay played poker with Jimmy Kimmel on The Tonight Show and magicians asked, as they always do, вЂWhere can I find that?вЂ™ The answer is, of course, in The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier. I admired the way Woody Aragon took something that appealed to poker players and made it play to any audience. I saw Harry Lorayne perform it with his usual gusto and Basil Horwitz turn it into a mental miracle. Later I discovered that it was one of the many tricks that Elliott had taken from his Phoenix magazine and used in his books for the public. I remember finding it in Bruce ElliottвЂ™s Magic: 100 New Tricks. At some time or other every card man has tried this trick. Bob FarmerвЂ™s bulging file on the Ten Card Poker Deal. The Bammo Ten Card Deal Dossier by Bob Farmer by David Britland, Genii Magazine,В March 2015

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