Shin Lim | AGT Season 13 Winner | 2018 | All performances

Just pick one anyone Can you write your name Well, everyone stood on their feet Howie. Oh my god by leaps and bounds is the best sleight-of-hand close-up magic I have ever seen And this was unbelievable You have your first yes You have your second yes, brother, I give you a third. Yes, I think there were what three thousand four hundred people Hi shit Amazing first audition, by the way. Thank you very much. How have you prepared yourself for the next round? I practice a whole ton It's a tough act. So Well, I'm not gonna ask too many questions because I like being surprised. All right Well before I begin I'm gonna need one spectator so Olivia if you wouldn't mind can you please come up Bloody hell shit That was spooky Olivia. You were literally inches away. What happened? I still don't know There's one card and when there were four I that's I'm that I was my hand and did not move. It was amazing It was truly amazing. You're so gifted. Thank you Honestly out of all the Magicians out there. You're the only one that actually makes me believe that magic can be possible. Thank you Thank you, how are you, you know the last time I said by leaps and bounds you're the best close-up magic I ever saw and this time was even more magical you keep delivering young men You keep delivering like that and you are going a long way. Thank you. Thank you Well, you know what's gonna happen today only seven acts go through out of PC. So we'll see. Well done shit Very good That's your name Nothing up my sleeves. I'll roll them up and show it to the camera I was 19 when I first developed carpal tunnel in both of my wrists Eventually, I had to quit playing the piano and take what used to be a hobby a little bit more Seriously a new passion had ignited Just like those dice over there and grab onto it Roll it What do you see? Can you show it to the camera? Or you can hold on to them. You said nine, right? Watch the deck and only the nines were made out of those nine Out of those nines, which ones do you want? I? Want the nine apart nine of hearts? Oh my god shit. Um, I Mean oh my god, he was it an amazing act the whole presentation from the piano to the cards Seeing something I've never seen in my life. This was so good Shin. You know what you could actually win You know, I agree with everything that Simon just said that was a 1 million dollar act is a winning act It really wasn't winning Could have been anything that you picked and you made a whole entire act based off what Tyra picked I can't explain it any other way problem. That was pure magic I mean, I do believe it exists and you just prove that point. It does exist. Well Shin Lim you'd be happier if you get that million dollars tomorrow It's so much love Now we know that you all love some magic and one of the best AGT has ever seen is a finalist this season So get ready for your minds to explode Here is Shin Lim along with the hosts of the toughest show on TV American Ninja Warrior. It's Akbar Alright everyone we're gonna try something literally interesting. Okay, you grab the deck hug mark. You just give it a mix Get a little mix. Yeah, shuffle it up as much as you want. You can't even look through the cards. Okay, they're all different. Yeah Are you happy? He's a professional card player over there only when you're happy. All right, here we go I'm gonna riffle down the deck like this. Okay, you just say stop anytime you want. Okay, okay Stop right there. Yep. Remember the card. Okay, don't forget it. All right, forget it the tricks over Okay, have your hand out like this. All right. All right, cool shuffle up the cards Okay shuffle again mix it up as much as you want Again until you're happy and it's not really mixed inside that way. I have no idea what your card is or where it is Close your eyes. All right, I'll close I'll do whatever you want. All right, okay Cool. Here we go. We're gonna try to find your card, but not me all of us. All right Yeah, here you go. I'm gonna try to split the deck into four equal piles I'll try my best to make them As equal as possible, I was never very good at math, but I think I don't think that's funny All right, Akbar you pick the card right you get to point to a pile just point to one just point to a pile Yeah point to a pile that way. All right, give it to someone other than yourself Point to another one. Thank you. All right. Give it to someone other than yourself. All right Let's take this one. All right, cool. All right, so we all grab the deck like this. This is what we call a gambler's grip Mechanics What a dealer would do at a casino and try dealing the top part right over there Yeah, very good And then shuffle like this and then deal and shuffle and deal but make sure it's in a nice neat little pile like that It's neatness does count you can't even deal multiple cards like a packet if you want All we're doing is we're actually just thoroughly mixing up the cards. It's all we're doing So you are finished Very good. You're fast You have your cards grab it. Oh now you guys play poker. Yes. All right and poke where we burn the top part like this Go ahead. Try it burn it. You know why we do that Cheaters. Yeah, that's right. Because sometimes there's marks on the back of the card. That's why we burned it So in this game, we can burn as many as you want. Go ahead It's hot Stop whatever you want i'm stopping here, but you guys i'll stop don't throw all your cards. Okay. Okay. Let's count in one two three I've got two. All right. I got one two, three four Was I supposed to have kept more shenanigans? Okay. No, no, no, you can throw as many. All right Don't touch your cards anymore. So look in this pile. Look i'm not gonna do anything funny I would say about half of our cards are in here. Would you say that? Yeah 60% Yeah, 60% is very accurate Uh you threw you threw a majority of your I did throw a majority of mine away Yeah, which is which makes this trick a little bit harder. So thank you for that now for the first time ever What was your card because they don't they don't know what it is. Okay, you sure? Yeah. Yeah Jack of clubs jack of clubs. Yeah, so the chances of being here is about 60 percent, right? Yes You gave us the piles I had no influence on you whatsoever No, we didn't talk about this backstage or anything like this is the first time you've ever seen this right? Yep That's right. This is all right. We then shuffled the cards very thoroughly. Yeah, I feel like you're about to do something to us here What if I told you? Even though all of that happened That jack of clubs is in your pile in my pile. Yeah, never. What would you say? That's a 20 chance zero Okay, well, let's do let's do better. Okay, what if it was at the top of your pile? No, that's the lift up the top card What is it show us I did. How'd you do that? But we're playing poker, right guys? Yeah, and you know in poker a four of a kind's the best hand Yeah That's why I have a jack tyra. That's why you have a jack. What the hell? Oh my god