Left Hand

211 entries in Cards / Sleights / Palming / Gambler's Cop / Left Hand
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Das Kartenstehlen - III. Methode "Die Kartenschule von Carl Willmann"
 		Jan. 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 1)
3
Dai Vernon The Gambler's Palm
1949
Stars of Magic (Vol. 5 No. 3)
83
Paul LePaul A Bottom-Card Steal
1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
58
Paul LePaul, Dr. Jacob Daley Bottom Card Steal as a Switch gambler's cop as a switch using a double
 		1949
The Card Magic of Le Paul
156
Paul LePaul A Transfer Palm reverse from reference
Related to Nov. 1955
The New Phoenix (Issue 332)
137
Edward Marlo The Shuffle Palm overhand shuffle, originally top Cards
Related toVariations 1956
Action Palm
1
Edward Marlo Count Cop for Left Hand
1956
Action Palm
14
Edward Marlo Take Techniques for Action Palm Overhand Shuffle Cover, two Methods
 		1956
Action Palm
31
Edward Marlo Square Up Drop Palm two Cards to Pocket
 		1956
Action Palm
33
Edward Marlo Drop Cut Palm Triple Cut Cover
 		1956
Action Palm
34
Edward Marlo The Insertion Steals from center
Variations 1957
Side Steal
40
Edward Marlo Direct Rear Palm as top card is placed openly to bottom
Related to 1957
The Tabled Palm
31
Edward Marlo Direct Rear Palm - Multiple Cards
1957
The Tabled Palm
32
Gambler's Cop of double card
 		1958
The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M.
14
Charles Aste Jr. Coffin Cop hand with copped card is brought to mouth for coughing as cover
 		Oct. 1960
Ibidem (Issue 22)
18
Dai Vernon Second Gambler's Palm described for single card, with new replacement
 		1961
Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
42
Edward Marlo The Master Position on the Master position, which is: card(s) secretly in-jogged for most of their length (see fig. 7) or less (see fig. 42), after a diagonal insertion, applications:
  • to Rear Palm
  • to the bottom of the deck (five methods)
Inspired by 1961
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1961)
65
Charles Aste Jr. Cop Cover copped card is bent, corrected from Hugard's Magic Monthly write-up
Related to
  • write-up in Hugard's Magic Monthly
 Mar. 1961
Ibidem (Issue 23)
20
Jerry Andrus Sleeving To Get Rid Of Extra Cards cards copped off small packet and ditched in sleeve of same hand
 		1961
Sleeving from the Deck
16
Gambler's Cop
1962
Close-up Card Magic
257
Edward Marlo Bluff Shift and Palm Off Tilt to bottom and cop or palm "Side-Squaring Palm"
 		1962
Tilt!
5
Gambler's Cop
1967
Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic
47
Edward Marlo One Hand Cop here bottom card of double is palmed
 		1970
Advanced Fingertip Control
121
The Gambler's Palm
1970
Trucky-carto-magia
128
Gambler's Cop brief
 		1971
The Esoterist
29
Gambler's Cop brief
 		Aug. 1971
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 6 No. 10)
437
Cop Lap
1973
Rim Shots
24
Jerry Mentzer MPT - Palm "multiple push through", copping out injogged card
 		1973
Multiple Push Through Control
17
Martin A. Nash Gambler's Cop with table edge transfer kind of Tenkai position at table edge
 		1975
Ever So Sleightly
90
Harry Lorayne The HaLo Cut Cop action cop
 		1975
Afterthoughts
47
Harry Lorayne The Spread Cop card touched and displayed is copped
Inspired by 1975
Afterthoughts
49
Larry Jennings Bottom Placement also into gambler's palm
Also published here 1975
Epilogue (Issue Special No 3 (Part 1))
264
Edward Marlo The Spread and Palm in-the-hands spread, two methods
Inspired by
  • Bruce Cervon (Talisman Vol. 1 No. 45)
 1975
Hierophant (Issue 7 Resurrection Issue)
47
Gambler's Palm one of two cards
 		1975
Bennett's Best
90
Gambler's Palm
1976
The Ascanio Spread
11
Jerry Andrus Heel Steal from top to kind of gambler's cop
 		1976
Andrus Card Control
44
Harvey Rosenthal Left Hand Bottom Cop Outjogged Placement Control with cop, see Notes 2./3. on p. 168
 		1977
Packet Switches (Part Three)
158
Gambler's or Square-Up Cop from packet
 		1977
Creations of a Magical Madman
30
Empalme a lo Tahur Gambler's Cop
 		1977
La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 1
68
Harry Lorayne Gambler's Cop from small packet
 		1978
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel
171
Ken Krenzel The Squeeze Steal
Related to 1978
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel
189
Edward Marlo Bottom Cop from small packet, as Ambitious Classic sequence
 		1978
7 Secrets
44
Harry Lorayne HaLo Cut Cop
1979
Quantum Leaps
187
Tony Slydini Instantaneous Cop
1979
The Magical World of Slydini
28
Edward Marlo Double Undercut Palm - First Method
1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
67
Edward Marlo Double Undercut Palm - Second Method
1980
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 4
68
Gambler-Palmage
1980
Das Ascanio Seminar — Graz 1980
30
Gambler's Cop
1982
For Your Entertainment Pleasure
66
Edward Marlo Covered Cop small packet
 		1982
Marlo's Unforgetable Wild Card
13
Gambler's Cop table edge cover
 		July 1983
Pabular (Vol. 7 No. 11)
1129
Ross Bertram A Top Palm (method #1) from top to left hand cop
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
129
Ross Bertram A Top Palm (method #2) from top to left hand cop
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
130
Ross Bertram A Bottom Palm
1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
132
Ross Bertram To Palm a Card from the Middle of the Deck into left hand cop
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
133
Edward Marlo As a Rear Clip Palm bottom, left hand
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
137
Edward Marlo Marlo's Cop from bottom into left hand rear clip palm
 		1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
160
Martin A. Nash Disarming Hide-Out fanning deck while cards are in Gambler's Cop
 		1984
The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 3
48
Martin A. Nash Disarming Hide-Out fanning deck while cards are in Gambler's Cop
 		Jan. 1984
Apocalypse (Vol. 7 No. 1)
873
Harry Lorayne HaLo Cut Cop here to first cop then lap the card
 		1985
Best of Friends — Volume II
115
Eric DeCamps Bottom Card Cop different cop palm position
 		1985
The Magic of Eric DeCamps
11
One-Handed Cop of Top Card as deck is set down
 		1985
Midnight Special
16
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop
1986
The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings
34
David Regal Gambler's Cop
1987
Star Quality — The Magic of David Regal
17
John C. Wagner Thoughts on the Gambler's Cop
1987
The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner
29
Direct Cop card placed directly into cop
 		1987
Secret Session — Part Two
36
Dai Vernon Palming Position
1988
The Vernon Chronicles — Volume 2
174
Edward Marlo From a Gambler's Cop loading into side-coat pocket
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
32
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop management to cop off the bottom card of a double
 		1988
The Cardwright
11
Edward Marlo The Shuffle Palm original top cards
 		1988
The Cardwright
85
Larry Jennings Tip on Gambler's Cop for better angles
 		1988
The Cardwright
88
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop Display management for cop, showing apparently empty hand
 		1988
The Cardwright
156
Larry Jennings Bottom Placement Kelly/Ovette alternative, also directly into left cop or right palm position
Also published here 1988
The Cardwright
159
Edward Marlo Moveless Card Cop from small packet fan, left rear clip palm
 		Nov. 1988
Inside Out (Issue 5)
5
Karl Fulves Autopalm three Aces, one chosen and all three put in deck, deck cut at other two Aces, chosen one is palmed and produced from anywhere
Related to 1989
The Multiple Shift
38
Karl Fulves Card from Case Removal handling from left cop position
 		1989
The Multiple Shift
40
Gerd Winkler Zufallspalmage a bit like Tenkai center steal into cop position
 		1989
German Card Top Twenties
69
Harry Lorayne Double Edged bottom card either in right hand classic palm or left hand cop, fan cover
 		1990
Trend Setters
115
Wesley James The Drop Cop Switch packet in left hand turned over with deck in right hand and switched
 		1990
Pasteboard Perpensions
54
Edward Marlo Direct Rear Palm card placed directly in palm
 		1990
Cardfixes
187
Gambler's Cop
1990
Up in Smoke and Other Tantalizing Mysteries
12
Chris Power Card under Case Load from gambler's cop
 		1990
Laid Back in Graz 1990
6
Chris Power Das Fächerstehlen "Von oben und aus der Mitte"
fan steal, top card or glimpsed card in center is stolen directly into left-hand cop
 		1990
Laid Back in Graz 1990
22
John Carney Full Deck Cop
1991
Carneycopia
22
Cop from Double copping bottom card from double
 		1991
Carneycopia
48
Cop from Double copping bottom card from double
 		1991
Carneycopia
72
Edward Marlo Gambler's Cop to Pocket finesse for removing copped card from trouser pocket, only thumb and first finger enter pocket
 		May 1991
The Olram File (Issue 5)
1
Edward Marlo Direct Rear Palm Steal
May 1991
The Olram File (Issue 5)
9
Karrell Fox The Injog Palm injogged card copped from center when deck is removed
 		1991
Goodies
33
Vanni Bossi Gambler's Rest Grip of One or More Cards stealing top card(s) into left hand from small packet as it is removed with right hand
Also published here 1991
Escorial 1991 — The Erdnase Year
12
Charles Aste Jr., Undercover Cop cop position and transition at table edge
Related to 1992
Card Finesse II
88
Dai Vernon, Edward Marlo, Charles Aste Jr. Cop Grips different positions, Deep Cop
 		1992
Card Finesse II
90
(Out)Standing Cop cop position
 		1992
Card Finesse II
92
Jack Carpenter Notes on the Gambler's Cop
1992
Modus Operandi
75
Gambler's Palm
1992
La Magia de Ascanio — Vol. 6
61
Transfer Cop
1992
Choice Effects — Number Two
6
Justin Higham Cut Cop
Mar. 1992
Tech-Notes (Issue 1)
10
Steve Draun, Edward Marlo The Depth-Illusion Palm directly into gambler's cop or full palm
Related to 1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
46
Steve Draun Swing-Cut Action Palm
1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
53
Steve Draun Gambler's Cop
1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
119
Gambler's Cop stealing card from a double
 		1993
By Forces Unseen
12
Gambler's Cop brief
 		Apr. 1993
Avantgarde Magic (Vol. 2 No. 4)
52
ギャンブラーズボトムパーム (Gambler's Bottom Palm) Gambler's Cop
 		1993
Larry Jennings's Card Technique
52
John Scarne Palm Transfer with Deck card in right hand classic palm replaced injogged and then retained Lowe-style in left hand cop as deck is transferred
 		1993
Rigmarole (Issue 4)
38
Gambler's Cop stealing card from a double
 		Apr. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 8)
63
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop Handling
Aug. 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 12)
55
Vicente Canuto 3.- Empalme de Tahúr Para la Carta Debajo en la Mano Izquierda gambler's palm / cop
 		1993
Cartomagia Fundamental
278
Gambler's Cop position
 		1994
Workers Number 4
4
John Scarne Ovette Master Move Cop directly into cop position
 		1994
Verbatim (Issue 10)
145
Edward Marlo Rear Clip Palm deeper cop position, see also p. 166
 		1994
Roger's Thesaurus
156
Thumb Clip and Table Edge Hold-Out card copped and held at table edge with thumb
 		June 1994
Magic (Vol. 3 No. 10)
50
Darwin Ortiz Gambler's Cop
1995
Cardshark
95
Gambler's Cop
1995
Cards to Pocket Plus
9
Edward Marlo Cop at End of Deal packet dealt onto table one by one, last card copped
 		1995
M.I.N.T. — Volume II
117
Edward Marlo Unloading Techniques lapping sandwiched card, or deep cop, five methods
 		1995
M.I.N.T. — Volume II
233
Card Cop at Table Edge brief
 		1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue The Magic of Paul Harris)
52
James Swain Bluff Control Palm Swain Bluff Control followed by copping the cards
 		1996
Miracles with Cards
105
Gambler's Cop
1996
Lou Gallo: The Underground Man
102
Larry Jennings Gambler's Cop
1997
Jennings '67
74
Larry Jennings Sleeving a Card from left cop into right sleeve to show both hands empty
 		1997
Jennings '67
173
Gambler's Cop
1997
Trephine
29
Deck Cop
1997
Simon Says!
29
Gambler's Cop brief
 		1997
Card Stories
29
Larry Jennings, Roberto Giobbi A Sure Bet magician finds wrong card which then changes into spectator's choice
VariationsAlso published here 1998
Card College — Volume 3
565
The Gambler's Cop
1998
Card College — Volume 3
707
Roberto Giobbi, Fred Kaps Management Strategies for the Gambler's Cop
  • Seated at the Table
  • Standing
  • Replacing Card in Gambler's Cop Under the Deck
 		1998
Card College — Volume 3
709
Dai Vernon The Transfer Palm
Related to 1998
Card College — Volume 3
710
Cop Unload into pocket
 		1998
Secrets No. 2
37
Jack Avis Swing Cut Bottom Palm into cop, HaLo Cut type action
 		1998
Vis à Vis
30
Ellis Stanyon Palming the Bottom Card Across the Left Hand No. 9
Variations 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
242
Karl Fulves Supplementary Note details of handling, also for reverse
Inspired by 1999
Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks
242
Steve Silverman Card reversal deck is fanned face out and turned over onto bottom cards
 		1999
Labyrinth (Issue 9)
28
Gambler's Cop
2000
Palming: For The Terrified
9
Cop Replacement brief
 		2000
Palming: For The Terrified
10
Barry Price Price's Top Cop from top of deck
Also published here 2000
Palming: For The Terrified
11
Baltazar Fuentes Kick Kut Kop swing cut palm, into kind of perpendicular cop position
Inspired by 2000
I'm Dancing
8
Simon Lovell Copthinks
2000
Son of Simon Says!
100
Barry Price An Easy Faro Palm
2000
Escamotage 1
17
Barry Price Price's Top Cop from top of deck
Also published here 2000
Escamotage 2
24
Barry Price Clip Palm Change card comes in via clip palm, and out via cop
 		2000
Escamotage 2
44
Barry Price Hofzinser Change Cop Steal doing Hofzinser Change action with a double
 		2000
Escamotage 2
65
Gambler's Cop
2001
Personal Collection
355
Harry Lorayne Down And Dirty convincing control into cop (called "Rear Palm" here), to pocket application, two handlings
 		2001
Personal Collection
427
Harry Lorayne HaLo Cut Cop
2001
Personal Collection
439
Harry Lorayne Optically Controlled illogical cut control, showing that card is not on top and bottom, with Convincing Control addition and pocket finale
Inspired byAlso published here 2001
Personal Collection
463
Thomas Baxter The Basic Cop Position
2002
The Action Cop
4
Thomas Baxter, Edward Marlo The Action Cop overhand shuffle action
Inspired by 2002
The Action Cop
8
Thomas Baxter The Spread Cull Cop palming out a culled card
 		2002
The Action Cop
16
Thomas Baxter Under-Cover Cop "An Added Acquitment", fan to cover copped card
 		2002
The Action Cop
18
Thomas Baxter The Fan Cop
2002
The Action Cop
21
Thomas Baxter The BC Cop (Baxter Count Cop), cop from small packet as it is counted, used to vanish card in 3 Card Monte
 		2002
The Action Cop
24
John Carney The Carney Cop steal from center
 		2002
The Book of Secrets
76
Peter Gröning Center Action Cop a card is out-jogged and a block from the center put in gambler's cop position
 		2002
Freebie 3
28
R. Paul Wilson Gamblers Cop variation into left-hand gambler's cop
Inspired by 2003 ca.
A Mechanical Fan Steal
14
Wesley James The Fake-Take Dribble Force deck dribbled on table, copped card added to bottom of right packet
 		2004
Enchantments
111
Ron Bauer Gambler's Palm direct
 		2004
Second Finger Top Deal
14
Daryl Martinez, Bill Simon Daryl-Simon Convincing Control card ends in cop position
Also published here 2004
Deserting the Legion
5
Gambler's Cop
2005
Full Metal Jacket
10
Fred Robinson, Barrie Richardson Center Cop card from center into left cop
Related to 2005
Act Two
212
Daryl Martinez Convincing Control into Gambler's Cop
Mar. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 3)
64
Gambler's Cop of entire deck
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
54
Karl Fulves Undercover Cop stealing bottom card into copped position beneath out-jogged card as it is stripped out
"a Karl Fulves idea"
 		2007
Card Dupery
301
Ken Schwabe Skinning the Fan top card into cop, earlier version is in Bingham's "Cardboard Capers"
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
49
Ken Krenzel, Ken Schwabe Skinning the Fan Variation bottom card(s) into cop
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
52
Ken Krenzel The Clip Slip from center into left hand, thumb clip position, see also John Carney's handling (Secrets)
 		2009
Relaxed Impossibilities
90
Justin Higham Gambler's Cop Applications combined with Illogical Dribble Force
Related to 2009
Notes on the Illogical Dribble Force
29
Arie Vilner Packet Cop from small packet that has an out-jogged card
 		2009
Underhanded Delivery
51
Larry Jennings Cop from Double
Apr. 2010
Genii (Vol. 73 No. 4)
73
Marc DeSouza Tipping the Sleight Fantastic thumb slide directly into cop position
Inspired by 2010
Card Magic USA
51
Daryl Martinez, Bill Simon Daryl-Simon Convincing Control card ends in cop position
Also published here 2011
Maelstrom
173
Tom Gagnon Cop without a Beat copping card after Versatile Spread Control
 		2011
Avant-Cards
128
Barrie Richardson Slippery Jack's Side Steal card from center into left cop, application for card through rubber banded deck
Related toAlso published here
  • The Magician, Mar. 2005
 2011
Curtain Call
219
Gabi Pareras Empalme del tahúr por culebreo palming card during Ascanio Spread action
 		2012
Arturo de Ascanio - la depuración constante de lo mismo
106
Gambler's Cop & Lap
2013
Confident Deceptions
147
Gambler's Cop
2013
The Magic of Steven Hamilton
52
Lance Caffrey Bottom Cop No. 3, three methods
 		2013
The Asian Hustle — Secrets of the Hindu Shuffle
105
Lance Caffrey One Card Cop No. 4
 		2013
The Asian Hustle — Secrets of the Hindu Shuffle
105
Daniel Madison Centre Cop Placing a card from the center of the deck into left hand Gambler's Cop in the action of cutting the deck
 		2014
Placebo
27
Roberto Giobbi Gambler's Cop Actus Interruptus application
 		May 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 5)
22
Deck Cop
2015
F for Fiction
17
Edo Huang TG Murphy Deck Cop originally top card(s) to gambler's cop after deck flip flourish
 		2015
Card Coffee Collective
27
Edo Huang Overhand Cop overhand shuffle action cop
Related to 2015
Card Coffee Collective
41
Edward Marlo, Alexander Hansford Convincing Control to Deep Cop
2016
Sprezzatura
25
Vanni Bossi Stolen Goods stealing top card(s) into left hand from small packet as it is removed with right hand, cop or bent cop
Related toAlso published here 2016
The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
60
Roberto Giobbi Cop Force dribble force, force card starts in cop position
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Oct 3)
284
Small Packet Cop
2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
137
Dani DaOrtiz Cop Handling during cut from hand to table
 		2018
Card in Bottle
25
Gambler's Cop table edge cover during hold-out
 		2018
Game Changer
185
Edward Marlo Direct Cop for quick repeat card to pocket
 		2018
Solomon's Secrets
16
Harry Lorayne Optically Controlled llogical cut control, showing that card is not on top and bottom, with Convincing Control addition and pocket finale
Also published here 2018
And Finally!
46
Harry Lorayne HaLo Cut Cop
2018
And Finally!
197
Harry Lorayne Keep Your Eye On It card copped out during convincing control type action
Related to 2018
And Finally!
199
Gambler's cop bottom card of packet set directly into position
 		2018
Pure Imagination
268
Jeremiah Zuo Display Cop Choreography copping a card while showing three cards
 		2019
Confessions of A Magic Fan
46
Tom Gagnon Cops Without a Beat cop after Gagnon ribbon spread control
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
280
Tom Gagnon Gambler's Cop Replacement slight in-the-hands back-and-forth spread
 		2019
Gagnon Unfiltered
325
Steve Forte pitch holdout from packet which is pitched onto table
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
534
Steve Forte Gamblers' Cop overhand shuffle cover
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
578
Steve Forte gamblers' cop
2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
583
Steve Forte direct transfer cap left-hand cop or thumb clip to top of tabled deck via right-hand end grip transfer
 		2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
592
Steve Forte Overhand Action Cop
2020
Gambling Sleight Of Hand — Volume 2
1012
Edward Marlo Cop and Transfer
2020
Output (Issue 11)
13
Gambler's Cop brief
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
287
Larry Jennings Bottom Placement also into gambler's palm
Also published here 2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
401
Alexander Hansford Tenkai Palm Variation into angly perpendicular cop position from center, overhand shuffle while holding card out
Inspired by 2021
Often Rarely That Simple
177
Thumb Clip Steal bottom card of double
 		2022
Instructions for a few Miracles
43
Gambler's cop from bottom of deck and added to bottom of card case
 		2022
Vallarino
76
Jean-Pierre Vallarino Gambler’s cop including finessed addition of copped card to bottom of packet placed onto it
 		2022
Vallarino
100
Thumb Clip Steal bottom card of double
 		2023
Instructions for Miracles
94
Pedro Lacerda Cop Vanish
2023
The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda
218
David Regal One-Hand Cop Get-Ready
June 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 6)
42
David Regal One-Handed Injog of bottom card with deck in dealing position
 		Oct. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 10)
52