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Chef Anton is the stage name of Anthony S. Riniti (born 1969), a trained chef from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. He is an award-winning expert with the pool cue, and a noted magician whose performance includes a unique mixture of magic, hustling tricks and billiard trick shots. Because of his unique style, he was the first ever billiard trick shot artist invited to a special evening performance at the noted Magic Castle venue in Hollywood, California. At the Commerce Casino's Legends of 9-Ball Tournament, Chef Anton defeated formal world champions and became the first two-time United States Trick Shot Champion of Pool. Culinary Institute of America Logo The Culinary Institute of America is the worlds premier culinary college and is widely known as one of the top training institutes for culinary arts in the United States. ...
Hyde Park is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. ...
A cue stick or simply cue, is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of billiards, pool and snooker. ...
Magic, including the arts of prestidigitation and conjuring, is the art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that baffle and amaze, often by giving the impression that something impossible has been achieved, almost as if the performer had magic or supernatural powers. ...
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising ones skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone into gambling with them, as a form of confidence trick. ...
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The Magic Castle is a Hollywood landmark. ...
Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
Biography Riniti was born in the Bronx, New York on January 29, 1969 to Anthony and Josephine Riniti. in 1982, when his father received his 20 year pension from the New York City Fire Department, they moved to Southern California. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...
January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
The New York City Fire Department or the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) has the responsibility for protecting the citizens and property of New York Citys five boroughs from fires and fire hazards, as well as providing first response to biological, chemical and radioactive hazards. ...
At the age of 13, Riniti started body building, and five years later, won the 1987 Natural Nationals and then took 2nd place in the Natural Internationals.
Chef Anton has appeared on television in the TNN programs "Crook & Chase", "Prime Time Country", Talk Soup, and ABC's Monday Night Live, and worked as a technical consultant on billiards and magic for ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX Video. Spike TV (sometimes only Spike) is an American cable network designed to cater to a young male demographic and is also shown in Canada. ...
Talk Soup (1993-2003) was a television show produced for cable network E!. The show aired selected clips of the previous days daily talk shows—ranging from daytime entries like The Jerry Springer Show and to celebrity interview shows like The Tonight Show—surrounded by humorous commentary delivered by...
With Whit Haydn, Chef began the School for Scoundrels in 1996, as an eight-hour course on street scams and as a web-based retail business. School for Scoundrels is taught over a four week period each November at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. It focuses on the subject of short cons (Three-Card Monte, Shell game, Fast and Loose), with students from the fields of magic, law enforcement, gambling, and history. They teach the history, psychology, techniques, and application to magic of these ancient scams. School for Scoundrels is taken from the 1960 Terry-Thomas movie of the same name. Whit Haydn, 2006 Whit Haydn (b. ...
Three-card Monte, also known as the Three-card trick, Follow the lady or Find the lady, is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that he can find the money card, for example the queen of spades, among three...
A shell game is performed with bottle caps on a cardboard box, on Fulton Street in New York City. ...
Fast and Loose is a cheating game played at fairs by sharpers. ...
School for Scoundrels is a 1960 British comedy film, remade in 2006, inspired by the lifemanship books of Stephen Potter. ...
They have also created a major web resource for their School for Scoundrels students and others interested in the history and methods of short cons, including a store, forum, video and photo gallery, and Scoundrels Wiki site. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Chef Anton married on July 5, 1997. He presently lives with his wife Bonnie and their two daughters in Canyon Lake, California. July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Canyon Lake is a gated community in Riverside County, California, United States. ...
Awards - Two-time United States Trick Shot Champion of Pool
- 1987 Natural Nationals weight-training award championship. 1st place in the U.S., and 2nd place in the Natural Internationals
- Twice been nominated for the Magic Castle's "W.C. Fields Bar Magician of the Year" award
Works - Pool Hustler's Handbook, Chef Anton, 2002
- Pool Hustler's Cookbook, Chef Anton, 2004
- Chef Anton's Magical Menu of Pool Ball Wizardry, Chef Anton, 1994 VHS
- School for Scoundrels Notes on Three-Card Monte, also VHS and DVD
- School for Scoundrels Notes on the Shell Game--Introduction to the Shell Game, also DVD
- School for Scoundrels Notes on Fast and Loose, also VHS and DVD
Whit Haydn, 2006 Whit Haydn (b. ...
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