by Charles Calthrop » Oct 5th, '06, 15:40
I think you must be thinking of the Si Stebbins Secret in At The Card Table by Ortiz. This uses a sequence of shuffles to put a deck that is in factory order into a Stebbins stack. You will need to be very good at faro-ing.
What you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots