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Retaining Bottom Stock

This is another ruse lifted from the gaming table which can be put to good use in many card tricks, since with it the bottom stock is retained after a genuine cut by a spectator. We will suppose that the four aces are at the bottom of the pack and that you desire to keep them in that position. Here is the working:

1. Execute a riffle shuffle, interlacing the corners giving the sides of each packet an upward bend by pressing down with the forefingers, and letting the four aces drop first. Square the cards which will then have a lengthwise crimp making their backs slightly concave, and hand the pack to be cut, Fig. 1.

2. After the cut, A, has been tabled, pick up the lower packet, B, with the right thumb at its left side, the fingers at the right side; let half a dozen cards at the bottom slip off the right thumb, gripping them with the right fingers on the right side only, Fig. 2; the left sides of these cards rest on the table.

3. As you sweep B towards A, press the left thumb on the left side of A, thus lifting its right side about an eighth of an inch off the table.

4. In sliding the two packets together let the six separated cards at the bottom of B pass under A while the remainder go on top, Fig. 3.

5. Pick up the pack, square it and, in doing so, take out the crimp with the left hand. The four aces are still on the bottom ready to be dealt with as you may desire.