A lot of you were impressed with the magic trick by Paul Gertner that I linked to here. Here's Mr. Gertner again, this time with his signature trick, the one for which he's most famous. It's called "Unshuffled" and it's kind of impressive in that it amazes everyone even though it's really simple to figure out how it's done. It's especially obvious if you know what a "faro shuffle" is. Here — I'll save you the time of Googling to find out if you don't.
You too can do this trick if you get the special deck and learn how to execute perfect faro shuffles. When Gertner did this on Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Penn admitted he'd purchased the trick from Paul, tried to master it but never got good enough to perform it. What he meant was that he couldn't do perfect faro shuffles every time. Paul Gertner sure can…