Ok, here’s the trick. It’s fairly simple to explain but I don’t know how it’s done. You take any pack of cards, shuffle them all you want and give them to the “magician”. He then proceeds to tell you every card’s name before he turns it over, very casually turning each card over one by one and revealing he is correct. If I remember correctly, he can even close his eyes and do this trick. How?
I’ll say just three things:
First, you’re misremembering the trick, just like you’re supposed to;). The way you describe would be very difficult, but the actual trick is easy.
Secondly, he sees each card before he names it (but you already figured that out, right?)
Thirdly, if I just give it away, the resident magicians on the board (I’m thinking sdimbert, for starters) will say that I ruined all the fun for you.
I don’t want to be rude, but that response is a little annoying. The whole purpose of this page is to reveal either obscure or deeply guarded information. Out with the truth, I say!!!
Now, the other part of your response is interesting. I hope you aren’t thinking about the trick where you pull the card out from underneath the deck, 'cause that wasn’t it.
The whole purpose of this board is to fight ignorance, not to reveal skills which are professional secrets.
We could tell you.
But then, well, you know the rest…
Mahaloth wrote:
I’d say that Chronos’ explanation that you misremembered the trick is a more important piece of information than how the trick itself actually works.
OK, assuming that the trick is exactly as you described, I know of no way to do it other than marked cards, and your statement that it’s “any deck” goes against that, too. The appeal of magic tricks, of course, is that the way a person remembers it actually is impossible, but of course, the real trick is possible, and hence is not the same thing that you think happens.
The trick I’m thinking of has n+1 variations, some (but not all) of which involve seeing the bottom card. Without knowing exactly what was done, I can’t possibly say which variation it was.
In general, if you’re the rare sort (like myself) who actually likes to know how a trick works, your best course of action is to go to the library and check out a few books of magic tricks. You’ll never see any of those exact tricks used by a decent magician, but knowing them will give you a better idea of what sorts of things to look out for.
Yep, you remembered wrong or… there are actually some magicians who can rifle through a deck and actually remember the card sequence. True.
Mahaloth,
Was the magician putting the cards behind his back and then showing one card at a time? I kind of curious to know how you remember the trick.
Also, I think you are going to be hard pressed to find a magician on this board that will reveal the actual secret of the trick. The idea is that you were supposed to be entertained by the trick. If you were just fooled and NOT entertained, then the magician wasn’t doing his job right.
Mahaloth:
Don’t you hate it when people put words into your mouth? Especially when those people are right - Damn is that annoying! 
The trick you describe is so simple, even you could do it. All you need to do is raise enough money to fly to Nepal. There is a man on a mountaintop there who will teach you to see with “your mind’s eye.” Once you have reached inner tranquility, bested your personal demons and discovered the secrets of the multiverse, come back to America and impress your frinds at cocktail parties with card tricks!
Seriously now, whatever the method was, the trick you describe is impossible. Or rather, improbable. If your magician pal was really using “second-sight,” he was doing it the hard way.
The easy trick he did was getting a glimpse at each card before he turned it over for you. Sit down with a deck yourself and re-play his movements; a few ideas will come to you. The harder trick he did was getting you to believe you saw him do something that he didn’t do.
That is the magic part.
You are trying too hard. Just pour yourself a cup of coffee, and maybe in a moment of quiet reflection, the answer will come to you.
Easy.Each card in the deck is the same.
Handy 
It’s actually very easy. Assuming the trick is exactly the way you remember it, the best possibility is that the magician is dealing off the bottom of the deck, and has a ‘shiner’ that allows him to see the bottom card. That could be something as simple as a highly polished black shoe, or a glass of water.
But as the others have said, it probably wasn’t the way you remembered it. The other strong possibility is that the magician ‘cold decked’ you. That is, he diverted your attention with some misdirection, and then swapped decks for one that he pre-shuffled and memorized.
Another possibility, assuming that the magician was shuffling, is that he was doing a ‘false’ shuffle, which looks exactly like a real shuffle except that the cards never change position.
There are probably a dozen other ways to do a trick like this. For instance, the cards could be marked or daubed. Marked cards have slight differences in the design that allow a person to read the back. The best way to spot marked cards is to hold the deck up to the light and riffle it, looking at the backs. If the pattern seems to shift, then the cards are marked.
‘Daubed’ cards involve the magician marking the cards right in front of you. a slight bit of wax or other clear substance is lightly applied to various areas of the cards. Sometimes the daubing can polarize reflected light, meaning that it’s invisible unless you happen to be wearing polarized glasses.
Being a closet magician, there are two ways the trick could have been done. It all depends on how he shuffled it. Was it an overhand shuffle? Or a cut-and-flip shuffle? If it was an overhand shuffle, there is a system of arranging cards so that when overhand-shuffled, no matter how long, will always, always be predictable by memorizing the pattern of “CHaSeD” with the difference of the previous card of 3. So once you know one card, you know them all. This method was devised by Si Stebbins, in case anyone cared. If the deck was cut and flipped, then it was done with a simple flipping of either the top or bottom card to give the illusion of all the cards facing away. In which case I’ll bet they purposely got one or two wrong. If he closed his eyes, then it was probably the stacked deck in the first method with overhand shuffling.
if the trick was performed with each card being turned over behind the magician’s back, then it’s even simpler.
no set-up. no false shuffles. nothing. you just get the shuffled cards, puts them behind your back and flip over the top card. you then hold the cards out, with the bottom of the deck facing the spectator, and the top of the deck (with a face-up flipped card on it now) toward yourself. so now you the next card in the deck. (When you put it behind you back the next time, you move this card that you know to the bottom of the deck, and flip the next top card over like before.) So the first card you start with you don’t actually know. so either: screw up purposely, snatch a glance beforehand, or announce “I’m having difficulty reading this first card” yadda yadda yadda, pick your banter. then your home free. just proceed as above. when you’re ready to finish, just don’t flip over that top card when you have the deck behind ya.