A lot of people have been asking for help on how to break in a new deck and here's a fairly simple yet thorough guide:Step 1: Wash your hands in warm soapy water and dry thoroughly...Step 2: Open the new pack somehow...Step 3: Remove the advertisement/sudoku/whatever cards but leave the jokers in if you want to...Step 4: Do a nice riffle shuffle and bridge; turn the deck 180° and do another riffle shuffle and bridge. Do this again and then turn the deck face up and repeat the riffle shuffles...Step 5: Do two LePaul spreads and turn the deck 180° and do another two LePaul Spreads. Do this face up twice and face down twice...Step 6: Do two springs then turn the deck face up and do another two springs.Step 7: Do a few pressure fans face up and down and throw in an "Under-pressure" or two...Step 8: Do a few of your favourite flourishes...Step 9: Replace the deck back into the pack and put it into a porper or under a few heavy books and leave it there for about two hours before using it again so you have a nice cool, broken-in deck...So to recap what we have done to break in our new deck:riffle shuffle face down and bridge x2, turn 180° and riffle shuffle face down and bridge x2, riffle shuffle face up and bridge x2, turn 180° and riffle shuffle face up and bridge x2, LePaul spread face down x2, turn 180° and LePaul spread face down x2, LePaul spread face up x2, turn 180° and LePaul spread face up x2, spring face down x2, spring face up x2, pressure fans face down, under-pressure face down, pressure fans face up, under-pressure face up, a few of your favourite flourishes, back in the deck to cool down...All this should take less than 5 minutes to do.Note: Everyone has a different understanding and feel of "broken-in" so what feels best for you is broken-in.Hope this helps...Cheers,Shanku
This also might be of some interest to those who haven't seen it, it was originally posted by dnd but their youtube channel is no longer up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ydo0YTb1Q
This is true, but the longer you can make it last, the longer it will protect your deck. Crushing it won't help it last.Maybe someone needs to come up with a really good way to protect cards once the box is toast (or to keep the box from being toast in the first place). Clips are good for the cards, not so good for the boxes.
How long are u going to use a deck? A year or A century? I have never got a box crushed before i set the deck aside as a old deck, I even kick the box around.. Trying to do vertigo by Dan and Dave with the box and the cards and the box is pretty fine..
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