As a fellow who enjoys games of Chance I've been looking for good gambler related magic tricks/swindles. The various Three Card Monte games/tricks are great and I would love to learn some tricks in a similar vain. What are some good poker or games of chance related tricks?

Ya, i have the 3 card monte easy to learn, easy to fool.....Theres a trick its like theres 3 cup type things and a pea.... follow the pea.....its not a bad one.... Takes a little while to get it perfect but it can be worth it.....

Dice Chop Cup by Stephane Bourgoin

Gambler's Wildest Dream by Reed McClintock

Casino Royale - Viking/Becker

Heads Or Tails by Gary Kosnitzky

Cups & Balls

3 Card Repeat

I hate to keep answering the posts with other forums addresses but here is the SFS Scoundrels Forum - Index (http://www.scoundrelsforum.com/) Covers a lot if not all of what you are talking about.

Ok now this isn't a three card monte or anything... but its an old joke that gets a laugh ... or atleast a groan.

Display an Ink Pen. Black ink, blue ink, red ink, doesn't matter just as long as it isn't purple or whatever color you choose to wager.... write something, doodle something, then wager that you can make the ink pin write purple. They take your bet... then you take your pad of paper, napkin, whatever and write the word "Purple".

Classic joke which I love to do when I'm twisting balloons since I have my black sharpie handy. I'll do something like this after drawing the eyes on their dog or whatever I twisted for them.

I'll bet you a high five and one chicken dance that I can make this marker write PURPLE! (The kid/adult/whoever just saw that the marker was black... so they say sure.) Then I take my marker and on the back of their balloon dogs, leg, ear whatever I write the word "PURPLE". They may groan, laugh whatever.. but I make them stick to the wager... You owe me a high five... and a chicken dance! I'll hum the chicken dance and we'll dance together for a minute.

Classic joke done up clown style.

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but it is a great card trick with some poker hands mentioned.

YouTube - Bill Malone - Sam the Bellhop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GErpOl3KG_w)

That Bill Malone has some great patter!

Sam The bellhop is a Classic of Magic too cool to see Bill perform it.

"Color Monte" is one of my favorites. To get the full effect, you need to do it with a Jersey accent.

Chance…….. let me check this weekend I got the 2 tricks…. And they are great it takes 6 min to do them both and it is funny and a wow……. I forgot the name of them got it from my buddies years ago Vegas underground, the guy who thought up ½ of it passed away, and I renamed it call it Nut House poker, leading right into nuthouse black jack….. But got the text form somewhere here at house…… you do need a 15 of diamonds card thou……. So go to magic shop……..

I had to think hard for a few days before deciding to share this one with you all. Use it wisely, please don't ruin it for me.

One of my favorite bar room gambling tricks, is where I get the pigeon to spin a coin while I'm blind folded and have my back turned. Useing nothing other than pure "mental telepathy", I can call correctly every time whether it lands heads up or tails up.

A simple wager is first negotiated. Generaly it will be something like, if I successfully call the coin, ten times in a row, the pigeon buys me my next beer. I ask the pigeon to take a coin from his wallet. I show him how to spin a coin on its edge on a table. I give him a couple of practice spins. I then allow myself to be securely blind folded, I turn my back and perform the immpossible. After ten spins and ten correct calls, I turn to raptuous applause, looks of wonder, admiration and my brand spanking new glass of Joshua Tetly's finest.

The secret is very simple. When the pigeon hands me his coin, I switch it for one of my gimmicked coins. Previously I will have taken a sharp knife to the edge of one side of the coin and made a nic that throws up a slight burr. It is very small and sutble you can barley see it. However this tiny burr will alter the duration of the spins the coin makes as it settles on the table, depending on which side up it is. All you have to do is listen out for the finnal few spins. If it settles down fast, you know it landed with the burr faceing donwards. If its final spins are prolonged, you know the burr is facing upwards. So long as you remember which side the burr is on, you are laughing.

You all owe me a drink for that!

The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office. The
IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.

The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time
employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling.
I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable.'

I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it,' says Grandpa. 'How about a
demonstration?'

The auditor thinks for a moment and said, 'Okay. Go ahead.'

Grandpa says, 'I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.'

The auditor thinks a moment and says, 'It's a bet.'

Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it.

The auditor's jaw drops.

Grandpa says, 'Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.'

Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn't blind, so he takes the bet.

Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.

The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.

'Want to go double or nothing?' Grandpa asks 'I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.'

The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.

Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor's desk.

The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win.

But Grandpa's attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.

'Are you okay?' the auditor asks.

'Not really,' says the attorney. 'This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over your desk and you'd be happy about it.'

It is funny that I discovered this post. I was watching a documentary called "Grand Illusions II" and it spoke about the greatest magicians learning their sleights from the hustlers and gamblers. As they put it, if they messed up a sleight they would be killed for it, so since they had to make sure everything was perfect, what better person to learn from?

Anyway, they recommended and I do too the definitive "bible" on card sleights and a book every magician knows and loves. It is called "The Expert at the Card Table" by S.W. Erdnase. It is a bit "old school" in that you have to learn from a book and not a video, but it is worth the time and effort you put into it.

Amazon.com: The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation: S. W. Erdnase: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Card-Table-Treatise-Manipulation/dp/0486285979/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233497192&sr=8-1)

If, however, you are one of those who cannot learn easily from a book, though it is not half as good as the book itself, check out, and I shudder to even suggest this, Ninja 1 and 2 from Ellusionist : Street Magic Training Facility - Learn Magic Tricks (http://www.ellusionist.com) It teaches you a lot of the "backroom" gambling techniques but you have to endure Brad Christian who is not one of my favorite magicians.

Hope that helps