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| Sleight-of-Hand
Artist |
| Darwin
Ortiz makes his living with a deck of cards. As an
entertainer and expert consultant he has performed
on every continent except Antarctica.
At
an age when other children were learning to play
marbles, Darwin was learning how to manipulate a
deck from the card "mechanics" in his
South Bronx neighborhood. Eventually, he left New
York University Law School to pursue his interest
full time.
Darwin
practices religiously six hours a day, wearing out
over five hundred decks of cards each year. Through
his dedication, he has brought the art of sleight
of hand to a new level of perfection. Many of the
techniques he employs in his performances have never
been duplicated.
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| Magician |
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the world's greatest card manipulator, Darwin has
been a featured performer at magician's conventions
in the United States, England, Portugal, Argentina,
and Japan, and has lectured on sleight-of-hand before
countless magician's groups in the U.S., Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium,
England and Scotland. He is listed in both Who's
Who in Magic and The Encyclopedia of Magic
and Magicians. |
| Entertainer |
As
a sleight-of-hand entertainer, Darwin Ortiz is constantly
in demand to appear at corporate and private functions.
His clients include IBM, Silicon Graphics, Purolator
Courier, Aetna Insurance, Price-Waterhouse, the Pentagon,
the senior management of the McDonald's Corp., and
a $2,500-a-plate dinner for the 2001 Presidential
Inaugural Committee.
His venues for corporate clients include conventions,
banquets, hospitality suites, and management retreats. |
| Media
Personality |
Darwin
Ortiz has been featured in the New York Times, Philadelphia
Inquirer, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Review-Journal,
Atlantic City Press, Omni, Penthouse, and over forty
other publications.
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He has appeared on over seventy television and radio
programs, including The CBS Morning Program, shows on NBC,HBO, CNN, CNBC, A&E, The USA Network, The Learning Channel, and both America's Most Wanted and Britain's
Most Wanted (as an expert on card cheating - not as
a fugitive). He has also been featured on national
TV in France and Argentina and BBC-TV in England.
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| Casino
Consultant |
As
the world's foremost expert on crooked gambling, Darwin
frequently conducts seminars for gambling casino managements
and police agencies. His law enforcement clients include
the NJ Division of Gaming Enforcement in Atlantic
City, and the LAPD, for which he made a training film
on the subject. He has also testified as an expert
witness in casino cheating cases.
His casino clients span five continents and include
Hilton, Caesars Palace, and the Trump casinos. He
has been a featured speaker at the World Gaming
Congress in Las Vegas, The National Conference
on Gambling sponsored by the University of Nevada,
and the International Conference on Gambling
in London.
His overseas clients include casinos in England, Scotland,
France, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia,
Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Kenya, The Dominican
Republic, and the Bahamas. |
| Author |
Darwin's
book Gambling Scams has been widely hailed
as the definitive work on crooked gambling methods;
it is presently being used as a reference and training
tool by casinos in a dozen countries.
He is also the author of Darwin Ortiz on Casino
Gambling, and was technical consultant on Playboy's
Treasury of Gambling. His weekly column "Casinos"
ran in the Philadelphia Daily News. He has
been a write, columnist, and contributing editor for
several casino industry magazines. |
| Gambler |
Despite
his skill at card manipulation, as a gambler, Darwin
relied on his head rather than his hands. He belongs
to MENSA (the high IQ organization) and has a photographic
memory and a mathematical aptitude among the top 1%
- qualities which made him a highly successful blackjack
player until he was barred by all the major casinos.
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| Darwin
Ortiz is truly unique: an artist, and expert,
and an unforgettable entertainment experience. |
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