"It's real easy," Harry says. He picks the deck back up and fans it out so he can find the card again.
"You got your card, here, and you put it at the bottom, here. You gotta be careful you don't flash that, because then the trick's ruined."
He shows her how to shuffle the pack to keep the card on the bottom, and then how to shuffle it in a different way to force the card.
"They think, because the cards are coming out of your hand, that they're getting a random card. But you're pulling off the top of the stack and then showing them the bottom one," he says. "You can do anything for the pay-off. It's usually better to pretend to fuck it up first, though. It makes the reveal seem somehow more impressive."
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"You got your card, here, and you put it at the bottom, here. You gotta be careful you don't flash that, because then the trick's ruined."
He shows her how to shuffle the pack to keep the card on the bottom, and then how to shuffle it in a different way to force the card.
"They think, because the cards are coming out of your hand, that they're getting a random card. But you're pulling off the top of the stack and then showing them the bottom one," he says. "You can do anything for the pay-off. It's usually better to pretend to fuck it up first, though. It makes the reveal seem somehow more impressive."