Shin Lim & Akbar Grajabiamila Poker Card Magic Finale America's Got Talent AGT

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Thank you, Shen.
Hi, Tyron.
All right, everyone, we're gonna try
something literally interesting.
Okay.
Can you grab the deck, Hogsbar?
Okay.
Can you just give it a mix?
Give it a little mix?
Yeah, shuffle it up as much as you want.
You can even look through the cards.
Okay.
And see if they're all different.
Yeah.
Okay.
Are you happy?
He's a professional card player over there.
Yeah, I think I'm happy now.
Only when you're happy.
All right.
All right, here we go.
Cool.
I'm gonna riffle down the deck like this.
Okay.
You just say stop anytime you want.
Okay.
Stop.
Right there?
Yep.
Remember the card.
Okay.
Don't forget it.
All right.
Forget it, the trick's over.
Okay.
Have your hand out like this.
All right.
All right, cool.
Shuffle up the cards.
Okay, shuffle again.
Mix it up as much as you want.
Okay, all right.
Again, until you're happy
and it's thoroughly mixed inside.
That way, I have no idea what your card is
or where it is.
Can you close your eyes?
All right, I'll close.
I'll do whatever you want.
All right, open your eyes.
Here we go.
All right, cool.
All right.
Here we go.
We're gonna try to find your card,
but not me, all of us.
All right.
All of us?
Yeah, here we go.
I'm gonna try to split the deck into four equal piles.
I'll try my best to make them as equal as possible.
I was never very good at math,
but here we go, I think.
I don't think that's funny, but yeah.
All right, Akbar, you pick the card, right?
You get to point to a pile, just point to one.
Just point to a pile?
Yeah, point to a pile.
That one.
All right, give it to someone other than yourself.
How about you get that one?
Oh!
Point to another one.
Thank you.
This one.
All right, give it to someone other than yourself.
All right, boom.
All right, there you go.
All right, thank you.
Let's take this one.
All right, cool.
All right, so we all grab the deck like this.
This is what we call a gambler's grip.
Okay.
Okay, a what grip?
Mechanic's grip.
A mechanic's grip.
Yeah, like what a dealer would do at a casino.
And try dealing the top card right over there.
Yeah, very good.
And then shuffle like this,
and then deal, and shuffle, and deal.
But make sure it's in a nice, neat little pile like that,
because neatness does count.
And you can even deal multiple cards
like a packet if you want.
All we're doing is we're actually just
thoroughly mixing up the cards.
It's all we're doing until you are finished.
Very good, you're fast.
These two others are a little slower.
Okay, okay, okay.
Hurry up, Magic.
Okay.
Sorry, Tyra.
Live TV.
You have your cards?
Grab it.
Now you guys play poker?
Yes.
All right, in poker,
we burn the top card like this.
Go ahead, try it.
Burn it.
Do you know why we do that, Tyra?
Cheaters.
Yeah, that's right,
because sometimes there's marks on the back of the card.
That's why we burn it.
So in this game, we can burn as many as you want.
Go ahead.
It's hot.
Burn it.
Okay, I'm not burning them, Tyra.
Stop whenever you want.
I'm stopping here, but you guys.
I'll stop here.
Don't throw all your cards, obviously.
Okay, okay.
Now let's count.
One, two, three.
Count.
I've got two.
All right, keep going.
I got one, two, three, four.
Was I supposed to have kept more, Shannon?
That's okay.
No, no, no.
You can throw as many.
I have six.
All right, don't touch your cards anymore.
So look in this pile.
Now look, I'm not going to do anything funny.
I would say about half of our cards are in here.
Would you say that?
Yeah, 60%.
That's very accurate.
You threw a majority of your cards here.
I did throw a majority of mine away.
Yeah, which makes this trick a little bit harder,
so thank you for that.
Now, for the first time ever, what was your card?
Because they don't know what it is.
Okay, you sure?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can say it.
Jack of clubs.
So the chances of it being in here is about 60%, right?
Yes, 60%.
You gave us the piles.
I had no influence on you whatsoever.
No.
We didn't talk about this backstage or anything like this.
This is the first time you've ever seen this, right?
Yep, that's right.
This is the first time.
All right, we then shuffled the cards very thoroughly.
Yeah.
I feel like you're about to do something to us here, Shen.
What if I told you, even though all of that happened,
that jack of clubs is in your pile?
In my pile?
Yeah.
Never.
What would you say?
That's a 20% chance?
Zero.
Less than 20%.
Okay, well, let's do better.
Okay.
What if it was at the top of your pile?
No, that's impossible.
Lift up the top card.
Show them.
Yeah, you did that.
I didn't do anything.
Yes.
And you shuffled the pile.
I did.
How'd you do that?
But we're playing poker, right, guys?
Yeah.
And you know in poker,
a four of a kind's the best hand.
Yeah.
That's why I have a jack.
Tyra, that's why you have a jack.
What the hell?
You're gonna have a jack of...
Oh my God!
And Shen Lim.
Okay, after the break, we've got finalists
performing with one of the world's greatest violinists,
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