How do I do a sideways shuffle?
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Posted on Nov. 12, 2014, 2:01 a.m. by munkeylord
That question is really awkwardly worded I know. I was just really curious behind Jim Davis's shuffling technique in this video at around 1:13 to about 1:20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72vhUss84_I
It almost looks like a sideways riffle shuffle, how is he doing that?
Epochalyptik says... #3
The most important part of mash shuffling is to allow the cards room to slide together. Don't smash the two packets into one another; you'll just end up splitting your sleeves. Once you split the deck into packets, loosen your grip and allow space to naturally form between the cards, then continue the shuffle.
Mash shuffling is particularly hard on UltraPros (if done harshly) and on any sleeves with separate art layers (e.g. Fantasy Flights) laminated onto the back.
Never bridge your cards with such a severe bend. You'll end up damaging them very quickly. I also don't recommend riffling for the same reason.
November 12, 2014 2:56 a.m.
ColdHeartedSith says... #4
In all honesty I feel its the other bad at shuffling people who wanna mash for their cut..when they don't know how. I played poker for all the years I put down magic before picking it up again in 2010. So i've been shuffling playing cards for 24 years and have a very light touch and use the sleeves edges where I am doing a riffle and they are mixing perfectly only with the edges of the sleeve. I found the card is a ways inside away from these edges and with practice you can full on riffle with no danger of damaging the cards. inccodenty I use pros and preffer them for this feat because they are thinner and have a longer edge. I swear I get a year out of my pros and no damage or bending of the cards. I have never been offered less for one of my played cards by a store. Six months ago I was asked by a LGS manager Steve, how I kept my cards and sleeves mint riffling all the time like I do. So I showed him and explained it gave him poker cards sleeved and that is what I suggest for practice. No risk , good shuffling and good night.
November 12, 2014 4:13 a.m.
Nigeltastic says... #5
Doing a riffle with the long edges of the cards touching rather than the short edges also helps reduces the damage to the cards to some degree, as you can put less leverage on the cards, so it's harder to hurt them.
Epochalyptik says... #2
It's just a mash shuffle with a bridge added to it. Not even close to a riffle.
Riffling is how you shuffle a deck of 52 playing cards. You hold opposite top and bottom corners of two piles, press the center of each pile in, and slowly release one corner so the cards unbend themselves into a single pile.
Mash shuffling is exactly what it sounds like. You separate the deck into two piles and mash them back together along their longer sides.
To bridge a mash, you tilt the two piles such that they meet farther away from you, then slowly release pressure from the tops of the piles back so the cards fall into place as they unbend.
It's very difficult to explain how to do this using only words. You'll need to look up a YouTube video about it if you want to learn it. Or you could just watch the above video several times.
November 12, 2014 2:47 a.m.