Three-card Monte – also known as Find the Lady and Three-card Trick – is a confidence game in which the victims, or 'marks', are tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the 'money card' among three face-down playing cards. Three-card monte - a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time. I don't like it! Pick a card, any card! Will you be able to keep track of yours as it flies around the table? Get ready to press. Three Card Monte Card Trick (#1802) With our Custom Three Card Monte Trick, three playing cards are fanned and shown face up. The Magician asks a spectator to remember the middle card. To the spectator’s surprise, upon taking the middle card from the deck, the card has changed to a message card, which is custom-imprinted with the one- or two.
3 Card Monte Scam
Cards are dealt one face-down to each player, followed by two face-up to each player. The dealer will determine beforehand if there is a betting round preceding the first card dealt face-up, but at the very least, one betting round will ensue the dealing of each of the two face-up cards.
There are a number of ways to determine what hand beats what hand in Three-Card Monte, but below are three common examples:
Variations
Version #1 (based only on possible poker hands with three cards)
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-of-a-kind
Version #2 (based on the conventional rank of poker hands, with the exception of the Straight Flush)
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-card Straight
- Three-card Flush
- Three-card Straight Flush
- Three-of-a-kind
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Version #3 (based on the actual odds of being dealt each hand)
3 Card Monte Trick
- High Card
- Pair
- Three-card Flush
- Three-card Straight
- Three-of-a-kind
- Three-card Straight Flush