{"id":751611,"date":"2023-06-23T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=751611"},"modified":"2023-07-03T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T15:03:18","slug":"the-magician-who-catches-card-cheats-in-casinos-its-incredibly-common-for-people-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/gambling\/the-magician-who-catches-card-cheats-in-casinos-its-incredibly-common-for-people-to-try","title":{"rendered":"The magician who catches card cheats in casinos: &#8216;It&#8217;s incredibly common for people to try&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning when Harry Milas wakes up, he sits at his desk and picks up a pack of playing cards. He starts every day by dealing &#8220;seconds&#8221; &#8211; dealing out the second card in the deck, rather than the top card &#8211; then &#8220;thirds&#8221; and &#8220;bottoms&#8221; (just what it sounds like), over and over. He practises shuffling and cutting the deck, too. If he doesn&#8217;t do this for up to an hour every morning, he&#8217;ll be &#8220;in a mood&#8221; all day. He even takes his cards on holidays. &#8220;It&#8217;s the opposite of riding a bicycle &#8211; it&#8217;s a knife that I have to sharpen every day,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning when Harry Milas wakes up, he sits at his desk and picks up a pack of playing cards. He starts every day by dealing &#8220;seconds&#8221; &#8211; dealing out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}