Astonishing Team of Mentalists
Astonishing Team of Mentalists (ATOM) is a team of internationally performing artistes from Asia.
Formed in 2007, the team of Psychological Illusionists (or Mentalists) have performed for
the local biggest names (Mr. Teo Chee Hean, GM Patrick Fiat, Celebrity Jamie Teo) and were involved
with large corporation events (Media Launch of X-Box's Kinect, CozyCot's Beauty & Fashion Awards 2011)
and National Events (Yellow Ribbon Project, Singapore's Youth Olypmic Games).
ATOM have achieved success with several Magic Awards collectivitely, with their current title of Champion Street Magician
from "Singapore Street Magic Competition" that was held at one of Asia’s biggest tourist attractions, Singapore Flyer.
Every magician should know a few goofy facts about poker cards to share with others while you are sitting at the table before a game at a party. This will really show how knowledgeable you are with your art. ;)
Perhaps you’ve already seen or heard about this connection between poker cards and the calendar, but it’s a pretty interesting poker fact worth repeating.
The 52 cards of the ordinary playing deck are said to symbolize the 52 weeks of the year.
It is also thought that the four suits relate to the four seasons: Spades = Winter Clubs = Spring Hearts = Summer Diamonds = Autumn
The first week of a cartomancy year is March 1st to March 7th and is ruled by the first card in the deck: The Ace in each suit rules the first week of it’s corresponding season.
The Kings rule the second, the Queen rule the third, Jack rule the fourth, Tens rule the fifth . . . and so on with the Twos ruling the last week.
The last week of the year being February 22nd to February 28th. The extra day in a leap-year is under the ruler-ship of the Joker.
It is said the 365 days appear in the ordinary cards in at least 2 ways: 1. Choose any three cards and they give a possible combination of seven possible meanings. Seven being the number of days in the week, of course, and when multiplied by the number of cards (or weeks in a year) then you have 364. When you add the Joker the total will be 365.
2. Add the number of total pips (symbols) on all the numbered cards including the Ace. Add in the number of court (face) cards, plus their total value on the basis of 10. Now add in the number 13 (number of cards in each suit) and you should have the following: 220 = number of pips on the 40 numbered cards plus 12 = number of court cards plus 120 = value of court cards plus 13 = number of cards in each suit which, when tallied together, equals 365!
Weird isn’t it?!
This coincidence wasn't by chance, poker cards were in fact used for fortune telling before the tarot cards were popularized.
Astonishing Team of Mentalists