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The new deck order of the Phoenix Deck is slightly different to the Bicycle decks that you may know.
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When you look at a deck of cards it starts with the two Jokers and the last two cards are the blank card and the Poker Bingo.
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But despite of that you will see that it starts with the Ace of Spades to King. Then comes the Hearts.
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And then - reverse - the King of Diamonds to the Ace and King of Clubs to the Ace.
This is already optimized for the Tamariz Stack.
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What is the Tamariz Stack? It's invented by the great magician Juan Tamariz from Spain.
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With his stack you can go from new deck order to Tamariz Stack with four faro shuffles, overhand shuffle and then a partial faro at the end.
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I will show you how to do this with the Phoenix deck. Usually the Tamariz Stack would work the other way round:
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Top card on the face would be the Ace of Clubs then Ace of Diamonds to King and then the other way round. It would be exactly reversed.
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One by one reversed. I surprised Juan Tamariz that with this set up you can also get into the Tamariz Stack.
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I will show you how. If you're already familiar with the Tamariz Stack and how to get into it you will see the first step will be exactly the same:
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You have to do four out-faros.... I did the first faro.
What you'll notice about the set up of the Phoenix is the stay stack order.
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A Stay Stack order means that no matter how many faros you do it will always stay in a certain stack. The first and the last cards are mates.
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As you see Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs. King of Diamonds, King of Hearts, etc... Mates, until the center where the red Aces meet in the middle.
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Let's continue doing some more faros.
That was faro number 4.
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If you are familiar with the Tamariz Stack you will notice that it's exactly what you need, only reversed.
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You will continue going to Tamariz Stack by doing an overhand shuffle of 26 cards in your other hand.
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With Tamariz's you will just bring this back to the top. With Phoenix, because everything is reversed, all you have to do is to place this on top.
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And you are done! Now you're exactly where you would've been when you would have started with the original Tamariz Stack new deck order
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having the Ace of Clubs at the bottom and the 9 of Clubs on the face. You have to do one final partial faro at the King of Diamonds.
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When you look at the cards, cut at the 4 of Clubs - because this is the top card -
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and you have a deck perfectly set up in Tamariz Stack. Take the Poker Bingo card and you will see
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it starts with the 4 of Clubs, 2 of Hearts and will end with the Ace of Hearts and 9 of Diamonds.
That's the Tamariz Stack.
