This is called the Cut Placement Principle. It's a theory among magicians.
Theory: each person has a tendency to cut to a certain card in the deck.
My card is the 10 of Diamonds.
There is a secondary theory called the Deck Flow Principle that also applies.
Theory: Every deck has it's own individual flow, making it more common for certain cards to be grouped together more often.
Try this:
Have a deck shuffled by a friend or by an automatic machine.
Cut the deck 52 times and record what card you cut to.
How many times did you hit certain cards?
Now repeat the experiment with a different deck.
Your results will probably be very different, though you will probably cut to the Ace of Spades pretty often with both decks.
Anyway, it really doesn't "mean" anything.
2007-03-17 18:19:47
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answered by Anonymous
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I think it's just a matter of perception. It's like the buttered bread. In reality, when you drop a piece of buttered bread, it lands butter down half the time, and butter up half the time.
But there's a saying that goes "The bread always lands butter side down." That saying is based on perception. If it were based on reality, it'd be "The bread lands butter side down half the time, and butter side up half the time." But of course, that is not the saying. You probably don't cut to the Ace as often as you think you do. If you really counted, it'd be pretty close to what statistics would expect. If you don't count, you'll notice more willingly the times the ace is there.
However, if you count and out of the 52 times you cut, you get 50 Ace of spades, then perhaps you are one with the universe, or perhaps you have psychic abilities that you could hone, or perhaps you are one of the luckiest people in the world. There are definitely things that science and math can't explain. Hmmm... something to think about.
2007-03-17 22:34:22
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answered by Brianman3 3
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I don't beleive you. if you're playing woth a regular 52-card deck, the odds of that happening are a gazillion to1. Sorry.
2007-03-17 18:43:39
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answered by LadyLynn 7
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your deck is a scam and has too many aces. quit cheating.
2007-03-17 18:22:24
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answered by Anonymous
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YOU ARE CURSED!!! BEWARE!!!!!!!
2007-03-17 18:14:55
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answered by soccer gurl4 1
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