Puzzling Card Trick

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A mate did this card trick at lunchtime. Has anyone seen it before or know how it works?

He picked 2 cards one was the 4 of hearts the other was a black joker.
He then asked sombody to pick which cards he believed were reds and blacks and to put them face down in 2 separate piles

|-----| |-----| |-----| |-----|
| | | | | | | |
|Reds | |Black| |4 | |Black|
| | | | |hearts| |Jkr |
|-----| |-----| |-----| |-----|

After a while he give the deck to sort over to the friend and after a few more cards he put the 4ofhearts on the red pile and the black joker on the black pile.
My friend then carried on and sorted the rest of the cards

The Magician the turned over all the cards and on one side of the 4ofHearts there were black cards and on the other there were red cards and vise versa with the other pile.

Edit : drawings messed up.
 
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