Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 104

Allan Ackerman discusses five types of palms: magician's palm, gambler's flat palm, Tenkai palm, clip steal, gambler's cop. He addresses bad habits, mistakes, and use philosophy.

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Learn how to move from one palm to another, for example, how does one go from a magician's palm to a gambler's flat palm.

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This is a technique, developed by the Professor, how to move the top card into a magician's palm while maintaining a high arch in your palming hand.

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If you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

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This is another technique to palm several cards at once from the top of the deck. Here a special little finger break enables the move.

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This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple-top palm.

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This is a move that comes originally from gambling. It is hard to do well, but Allan gives you a number of valuable tips.

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This is a move Ackerman developed himself. While riffle shuffling you palm the bottom card into a gambler's flat palm using a Kelly-type movement.

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Top palming a card with the right hand is typically exposed on the left side. Allan shares a tip that makes a top palm essentially invisible from 360 degree.

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Tony Slydini used this move for his famous helicopter card trick. A card is stolen into a Tenkai palm while it is inserted into a fan.

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This is an idea by John Cornelius where a card is pushed into a fan and during closing the fan the card is stolen into a Tenkai palm.

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Learn how to go from an overhand shuffle directly into the gambler's cop.

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Learn how to hold out a gambler's cop and how to perform the add-on to get the cards back to the deck.

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This is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card that is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop.

Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.

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Allan teaches the basics of the gambler's cop.

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This is a palm from Gen Magazine where the top card from a pressure fan ends up in the gambler's cop after the fan has been closed.

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Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well-covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left-hand magician's palm.

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While you perform a double cut you palm off the bottom cards. This move was developed by Art Altman.

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This move was developed by Allan Ackerman. You start out with a convincing type of control. By angling the card correctly you can have it automatically end up in a left-hand magician's palm.

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AB stands for Ackerman-Barnhard. It is a way to palm the bottom cards from an overhand shuffle.

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Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

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Go from a side steal to a full palm position: kick-out, pull-out, and squeeze into palm.

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Side steal a card and then place it efficiently and invisibly on the top of the deck. If you read somewhere 'do a side steal', this is typically what is meant - side steal to top.

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This is something Ed Marlo liked to do, a side steal with a bluff action.

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