How to Retain the Bottom Card Trick

Video Transcript

"My name is Wayne Phelps and I am a professional magician and we are here with Expert Village.com. Okay guys, you have learned how to do a top retention. Now let us get a little bit more dangerous. We are going to learn the bottom retention. The bottom retention is very easy; that is going to be the same principle as the top retention with a riffle shuffle but instead of worrying about the top card, we are going to worry about the bottom card this time. For this we need to know what the bottom card is in the deck. For example we will say the 7 of spades is going to be the bottom card controlling this. You are going to break it off into two packets like you have been doing but when you riffle shuffle you are going to make sure the 7 drops first, you might want to go ahead and drop a few of the cards on top of it. Riffle the rest of the cards in on top and then square it up. The 7 does not move and the spectators are unaware that you even did any kind of funny movement there; up the speed it looks just like this. Notice how the 7 does not move. One more time again, the 7 has not moved. That is bottom retention. Let me show you how it looks in full speed, 7 never moves. Congratulations guys, you just did a bottom retention. "