David Blaine is Lucky with Dice

The mind forces the body into moving over and over and over again. You do it to this level of perfection that for a person like me who doesn't know anything about cards, I don't know anything about card tricks. I don't know how they work. I can't shuffle. If you watch me shuffle, you'd fucking laugh at me. But I watch your hand movements. I'm like, oh, this is amazing. It's amazing. There's guys that I'm around that I wouldn't even pull a deck of cards out of my pocket if they're near me. Because they're that guy that does it 13 hours a day. Yeah. Like the guy I just told you about. That's fascinating though. Yeah, but there's also different aspects to it. There's also guys. I'm not going to go into details. I feel like I shouldn't even say this, but it's fine because it's fine. I met a kid once who moved to Las Vegas when he was... This is a crazy story to tell. Damn. But it's a good story. Okay. I won't go into details. So he moved to Las Vegas when he was 12. He moved there because he wanted to meet a specific person who was considered the best card cheat ever. This is a guy that the reason that Vegas has those instead of the dealer peeking the down card, they have to put it into a machine and push a button. He's a guy that the movie Casino was built around with the computer and the shoe. He was the best card cheat ever, but among magicians, he's a phenomenon. Because he's working on moves not to entertain anybody. He's working on moves so he doesn't get his hands smashed up against a wall at Binions. So he's working on moves so he's not going to get killed. Survival. Yes. So this kid at the age of 12 knows about him, moves to Las Vegas, and buys a craps table. He puts the craps table. It's him and his mom. This is the single mother and him. They live in this small apartment, very close to the man I was talking about. And this kid throws dice 15 hours a day on this craps table. By the way, their little bed is like under the table. You know what I mean? It's a small space and it's a real craps table, like a nice one. The only thing he does is repetitiously throw this and he can helicopter spin the dice so you can't see them doing this. They have such force going around this way that when they hit the wall, one die won't break the number. And he can throw it exactly to this part of the table, missing this from across the tables so that one die locks and every time he can guarantee that number. He did that every day for almost a decade until he could throw dice better than any other human being in the world. Then he went and got a job at one of the casinos that text for car cheats and worked in the craps tables. It's all he did. And as soon as he turned 21, he went out, travels the world and wins the exact amount of money that he should win playing craps where you're not detected but you can... What is the exact amount? I mean under a million. Yeah, probably a few million a year. So I'm saying it's not like he's going in and getting greedy. It's very smart and structured. And that's his full living. And he can throw dice like I've never seen anybody throw dice. I know that they take people that are really good at cards. My friend Dana White has been barred from casinos because he wins at Blackjack. He's probably just counting. I don't know what he's doing. Yeah, he's counting. But they've kicked him out of casinos because he's won a lot of money. But he's also lost a lot of money, which is bizarre to me that you can go to a place and do really well and they're like, you're doing too well, you got to get out of here. Well, it says behind every table we have the right to refuse anybody, which is important. But do they do that with dice is the question. I get how they would do that with cards. Okay, so do you want to hear a dice story? But this isn't me doing magic. This is luck. Okay. Okay. So I don't believe you. It is. I don't like the way you paused. But I'm serious. I know, but I'm saying that because I'm trying to be convincing. So because I'm telling the truth. But anyway, I go to the Palms, you know, the... Okay. And they had a bet on the craps table called the Fire Bet. And it was like a game where you have to hit all of the numbers, opening clothes without butt crapping out. So when I walk up to the table right away, the pit boss and everybody, they make a big deal like, you can't touch the dice. And they're like, I said, you can call up. I can touch the dice. Because, you know, they invite me. So I said, I can touch the dice. And because I wanted to throw. Right. I don't want to just gamble on a rant. So anyway, because even though I'm not cheating, I still feel like, you know, maybe I'll get I have a little bit of an ability that's given, you know what I mean? Not a cheating ability, but maybe I'm a little better than a random person. Right. Got it. So the pit boss, they make a joke and then the woman, she says, well, if you take your shirt off, we'll let you throw the dice. Joking. So anyway, what I do is I bet for everybody at the... And I go to the low stakes table always. So the high stakes table is that Super Bowl team right over there. And they're like, ah, they're all crazy. Right. Like all excited with these big bets. I'm here with this table. We all have little bets. Right. But I say, let's put a fire bet down for everybody. So I put the fire bet down for every single person at the table, including the dealers, the pit, I mean, the pit, you know, the, you know, with the dice. And I'm throwing the dice, throwing the dice. This goes on for two and a half hours. I keep throwing the dice. I didn't hit a... I didn't crap out. I hit sevens in between each number, which you can... I don't know how craps work. So you have to roll like a five, let's say. And then I'm like, oh no, I need to roll another five, which is statistically much more difficult than a seven because seven is the most common number to come up. So if you roll a five, you're like, uh oh, that's hard because you can only get a two, three, or a three, two on both dice or a one, four, or four, one. So you have a four out of 36. So it's a one and nine. So you're probably going to crap out before you get the number. That's why the game is to their favor. So I'm throwing the dice and it's two and a half hours later and they stop everything. And they're like, your fire bet just hit. And the table goes, what does that mean? They go, well, you all just won like 10 grand each. And they all go, ahh! Like everybody's going... They gave me the taste. Everybody's going nuts and we hit the fire bet, which they've now removed from the pause by the way. But it was a pretty unheard of, like the odds of hitting that bet is pretty rare. But it's just luck. Nobody should hit that bet. I mean, statistically it's unlikely and I wasn't cheating. So yeah. So do they, but the question is... For some reason I'm lucky with dice. But I can tell you, I would be if I was great with dice. I tell you I was great. By the way, I actually have a die on me. I didn't even hear the story for this reason, but I do have a die on me. Have you practiced with dice? No, yes, but I'm terrible at it. So I do have a die. But it does make sense that if you look at what that is, that that's a physical thing. And then if you develop a touch, you develop a feel, you do something over and over and over again. Well, this is different. You take the die and can you like put it between your hand or whatever? And can you mix it like that? And then squeeze it when you're done. Keep it hidden, but put it on the table. But make sure you can't see it and I can't see it. You agree like no one could see that, right? No one could see it. Are you sure? 100%. Do you want to do it again? Try it again. Just no, because it could be weighted. Or you're done. You're good? Yeah. Okay. Say a number between one and six. Like pick a number up to six. Okay. That five is what I said on the craps table, right? But I already know that it's a four. And the five is here, basically. How do you know that? That's uncomfortable. Can you do that again? Probably not. You know what we'll do? Let's stop whenever you want. Yeah. Because it could be like a weighted die. By the way, that's how people cheat with dices. They also take the die and they flip it. And they want it to be, you know, so it's like you throw the numbers. So you said you wanted a five, right? Yeah. Go ahead. It's five. Get that voodoo away from me, man. The fuck is that? That's so weird. There must be a rush for you though, just to blow people's minds like that all the time. But see, so it's not, you know, I don't think of it. So what happens is the digital fixation part of like the love of just like learning something new and exciting. That's like really the stimulus is like that, that fixation almost. It's like the meditative thing that you're talking about. But as a magician that is performing and trying to make TV shows, it's really difficult because you have to like keep coming up with new things, which is that's hard to do.