They need something to feel like they have skin in the game. I mean, it doesn't do any good if you give your partner a great hand and no one else has a hand at the table for them to bet. And I think it's like you're - you're not just getting a good hand to the guy you want to win you got to get an almost-good hand to the guy that you want to get in and lose, right?ĭELGAUDIO: Certainly. And so, yeah, you just need to have a large toolbox full of these things and, you know, sort of play like jazz, where depending on what moment in the game you're at, you use the right tool for the right job.ĭAVIES: Right. So, you know, through shuffles and deals, you need to be able to manipulate the cards and put them in perhaps orders that you want or not deal a card to someone that you don't want them to get. I mean, you need to be able to use the actions at the table to achieve the effects you want to achieve. This wasn't a simple matter of getting one lucky card to the guy you wanted to win, right?ĭEREK DELGAUDIO: Yeah. And you had to make sure the right guy won. You were dealing at this private poker game, and you had a job. Let's start by talking a little bit about, you know, being a card shark - a card mechanic, I think you call them. His new memoir is "AMORALMAN: A True Story And Other Lies." He joins me from his home in New York City.ĭerek DelGaudio, welcome to FRESH AIR. He describes techniques he used and what it felt like to deceive people at a table where the stakes could be deadly if a player caught on to his game.ĭerek DelGaudio is perhaps best known for a live show he performed for 2 1/2 years in Los Angeles and New York, directed by Frank Oz, called "In & Of Itself." It's now a movie, also directed by Frank Oz, which is available on Hulu. He was the well-paid dealer in a private poker game where his job was to use his card handling skills to take most of the player's money. He has a new memoir in which he describes a time in his life when he had another identity - a card cheat. He's a writer, performer, artist, and though he doesn't exactly think of himself as a magician, he's skilled in the arts of illusion and has three times won magician of the year awards from the Academy of Magical Arts. Our guest today, Derek DelGaudio, has a career that's, well, a little hard to describe. ![]() I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross.
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