Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket

159 entries in Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Carl Willmann Taking Palmed Card out of the Pocket finesse, dropping it in first, then widening pocket and taking it out with fingertips
 		July 1897
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 3 No. 7)
99
Arthur Leroy Breast Pocket Switch card is sticking out of pocket and switched as it is removed
Related to 1937
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
28
Arthur Leroy Breast Pocket Switch miscredited to Hal Leroy
Related to 1938
Greater Magic
328
Jack McMillen McMillen's Card from Pocket card apparently removed from inside pocket with hand holding deck, really from deck
Related toAlso published here 1940
Expert Card Technique
314
Bob Hummer Jogged Card to Inside Pocket injogged card, deck held in right hand, card secretly transferred to inner right pocket
 		1940
Half-A-Dozen Hummers
6
Edward Marlo No Palm Aces to Pocket featuring bottom placement at coat edge move, lapel load
Also published here 1941
Early Marlo (Issue Amazing, Isn't It?)
32
Edward Marlo No Palm Aces to Pocket featuring bottom placement at coat edge move, lapel load
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1941
Amazing — Isn't It?
10
Tommy Dowd Card in the Pocket inside pocket, using Kelly bottom placement
Related toAlso published here 1943
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3
188
Neal Elias On the Card to the Pocket palmed card transferred to inside pocket
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 1946
At the Table Tricks
4
Eddie Joseph Pocket Load from lap to inner jacket pocket
Related to 1949 ca.
15 Exciting Minutes with a Borrowed Deck
9
Edward Marlo Clip Palmed Card from Pocket tip
 		1956
Action Palm
18
Edward Marlo Card from Pocket Ideas different subterfuges
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1956
Action Palm
52
Norman Houghton Production of Palmed Card from the Shirt Pocket only thumb and first finger enter pocket
Related to Dec. 1957
Ibidem (Issue 12)
19
Edward Marlo A Variation to a Sixy Effect variation of the ending with a pocket transfer sequence, passing a Nine as a Six
Inspired byRelated to Dec. 1958
Ibidem (Issue 15)
8
Dai Vernon Card from Pocket Inside Jacket Pocket
Related toAlso published here 1961
Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic
28
Edward Marlo Chute Method for Cards from Pocket with drop through sleeve
 		May 1962
Ibidem (Issue 25)
19
Allan Ackerman Added Thoughts on the Minuscule Deck Method 1: Deck from lap into pocket
Method 2: Packet changes into complete deck
 		1971
The Esoterist
9
Karl Fulves Sleeve Extraction card is apparently removed from sleeve but actually comes from center of deck
 		1971
The Book of Numbers
29
Bob Hummer Bottom Placement Load credited to Hummer
 		1972
Card Cavalcade
157
Tommy Dowd Card in the Pocket using Ovette Master Move
Also published here 1972
The Living End
22
Gordon Bruce Pocket Palm trouser pocket
 		Mar. 1973
Epilogue (Issue 17)
154
Norman Houghton, Gordon Bruce Card to Pocket trouser pocket, without credit
 		1975
The Magic of Francis Carlyle
112
Russell T. Barnhart Knee-to-Pocket Dragging card in knee crotch, dragged into back trouser pocket
 		1975
The Master Palm
74
Edward Marlo Marlo Note on Palming to Separate Pockets
1977
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 2
325
Dan MacMillan Card to Wallet Handling
1977
The Gamblers' Palm Revisited
18
Gordon Bruce Pocket Palm trouser pocket
 		May 1979
Pabular (Vol. 5 No. 5)
676
Palmed Card from Pocket inner jacket pocket
 		Dec. 1979
Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 3 & 4)
141
Juan Tamariz Lapped Card From Inside Pocket
Also published here 1981
Magia Potagia — Volume I
43
Edward Marlo, Danny Korem Next To Impossible Card To Wallet from deck to pocket
Inspired byRelated to 1982
Card Finesse
158
Edward Marlo Covered Transfer empty hand, inside pocket
 		1983
Facsimile (Issue 1)
12
Edward Marlo Card from Pocket from Clip Palm
1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
157
Production from left Inside Pocket
1984
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 5
306
Peter Duffie Double Fantasy two cards travel into two different pockets, one palm only, pocket ruse
VariationsAlso published here 1984
Close-Up to the Point
27
Karl Fulves Breast Pocket Extraction card actually comes from left palm
 		1987
Covenant
6
Gordon Bruce, Norman Houghton Pocket Palm trouser pocket, no credits
 		1987
The Magic of Steve Draun
5
Edward Marlo Inside Jacket Pocket Load
Related to 1987
New Wave Close-Up
37
Dave Rumfelt Breast Pocket Extraction card comes from deck
Related to 1987
Fantasia in As-Dur
39
Peter Duffie Pocket Ruse producing two cards from different pockets with one palm
 		1987
Inside Out (Issue 2)
5
Gordon Bruce Pocket Load trouser pocket
 		1988
Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table
105
Norman Houghton Pocket Load here credited to Carlyle
 		1988
52 Lovers
116
Edward Marlo From a Gambler's Cop loading into side-coat pocket
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
32
Norman Houghton, Edward Marlo, Gordon Bruce More on Card to Pocket classic palm removal, variations from different pockets
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
33
Edward Marlo The Empty Hand from inside pocket, gambler's palm and directly from deck, four very different methods
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
37
Edward Marlo Inside Jacket Pocket
Related to 1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
50
Edward Marlo Inside Jacket Pocket from center of deck, step 15
 		1988
Marlo's Magazine — Volume 6
56
Dai Vernon Loewy Palm Cover instantly produced from inside pocket
Related to 1988
The Cardwright
42
Gary Kurtz Card Load
Related to 1988
Continuations ... Departures 1
17
Gary Kurtz Inside Pocket Load for loading wallet, pocket, ...
 		1988
Continuations ... Departures 1 & 2
30
Edward Marlo Inside Jacket Pocket Load
Related to 1988
First there was a dream
53
Philippe Socrate Deck to pocket load variation of old stage manipulation, stealing all except top card into thumb clip palm
 		1989
Williamson's Wonders
78
Gary Kurtz The Cheeky Load
Related to 1989
Continuations and Departures
18
Karl Fulves Two Pocket Bluff two cards palmed in one hand are apparently removed from different pockets
 		1989
Quick Card Tricks
12
Randy Wakeman Card from Inside Pocket using gambler's palm
 		1989
Randy Wakeman Presents
5
Bill Malone Gag Card from Pocket Production card removed from non-existent breast pocket
Related to 1989
Randy Wakeman Presents
19
Juan Tamariz Lapped Card From Inside Pocket
Related toAlso published here 1989/91
Sonata
144
Juan Tamariz Lapped Cards From Inside Pocket
1989/91
Sonata
169
Gary Kurtz The Empty Hand Inside Jacket Pocket
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1990
Unexplainable Acts
51
Michael Powers Palmless Card to Pocket
  • Appendix A
with bottom placement
Inspired by 1990
Top Secret Stuff
169
Peter Duffie Pocket Ruse producing two cards from different pockets with one palm
 		1990
Cardfixes
185
Dave Rumfelt Fake Breast Pocket Extraction card comes off top of deck
 		1990
Up in Smoke and Other Tantalizing Mysteries
6
Jerry Mentzer The Lapel Ruse Kelly Placement Application
 		1991
Card to Wallet
34
John Cornelius The Better Pocket pocket design for easier loading
 		1991
Card to Wallet
36
Alex Elmsley Trouser-pocket Loading Technique from rear palm
 		1991
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1
135
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
Gary Kurtz Producing the Prediction from a Kaps (or LePaul) Wallet from pad to wallet at jacket edge
 		1991
The Ghostwriter
11
Edward Marlo The Ultimate Card To Pocket card is sticking out of pocket turns out to be later selection, switch as it is removed
  • First Version
  • Second Version
  • Third Version
  • Fourth Version
Related to June 1991
Technomagic (Issue 12)
95
Jack McMillen McMillen's Card from Pocket card apparently removed from inside pocket, really from deck
Related toAlso published here 1992
Modus Operandi
31
Gary Kurtz The Empty Hand inside jacket pocket
 		1992
Prinzipien in der Praxis
29
The Lapel Ruse no-palm method to get a credit card into the wallet, using Bottom Placement
 		1992
Magic with Credit Cards
36
Gary Kurtz Second Example: Producing a Card From Your Pants' Pocket
1992
Leading with your Head
6
Jack McMillen Bluff Card from Pocket using flourish count, top card of deck
 		1992
Pasteboard Presentations
114
Jack McMillen McMillen's Card from Pocket card apparently removed from inside pocket, really from deck
Related toAlso published here Nov. 1992
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 3)
54
Steve Draun Finessed Pocket Palm from Gambler's Cop
 		1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
120
Norman Houghton, Gordon Bruce Pocket Palm trouser pocket, from classic palm, here credited to Gordon Bruce
 		1993
Secrets Draun from Underground
124
Peter Duffie Pocket Ruse producing two cards from different pockets with one palm
Also published here 1993
Applications
23
René Lavand Card from Pocket Finesse same as Gordon Bruce / Norman Houghton
 		1993
Magic From The Soul
55
Norman Houghton, Gordon Bruce Pocket Palm credited to Bruce, trouser pocket
 		1994
Workers Number 4
49
Jeff Busby Card From Pocket Finesse to pivot card away from hand, trouser pocket
 		1994
Workers Number 4
50
Jack McMillen Card-from-Pocket Extraction from deck bluff
 		1994
The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 2
215
Paul Gertner Card from Shirt Pocket quickly slid in
 		1994
Steel and Silver
88
Meir Yedid, Bernard Bilis Fake Pocket Extraction card sticking out of breast pocket, left hand with deck apparently removes it
 		1994
Magical Wishes
73
Roger Crosthwaite Pocket Switch card sticking out of breast pocket, removed with one hand, see also p. 234 for credit information
Related to 1994
Roger's Thesaurus
30
Peter Duffie Fantastic Voyage Ace to Three of Clubs travel into different pockets, one palm only, pocket ruse
Inspired by Dec. 1994
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 4)
56
Norman Houghton Pocket Load trouser pocket
 		1995
Cardshark
56
Dave Rumfelt Signed Card from Shirt Pocket
Related to 1995
How to Tame a Moose
21
Gary Kurtz The Empty Hand Inside Jacket Pocket
Also published here 1995
Lecture Notes 1995
23
Gordon Bruce Palmed Card from Pocket Technique trouser pocket, front or rear
 		Nov. 1995
Magic (Vol. 5 No. 3)
69
Gary Kurtz, Steve Bedwell The Empty Hand Variation
Inspired by 1995 ca.
Parked Card and Other Manoeuvres
11
Michael Skinner From Palm to Inner Pocket
1996
Classic Sampler
26
Peter Duffie Caprice two Jokers placed in in the two side pockets, two selections transpose with those Jokers, pocket ruse, then selections travel to the pockets once more
Inspired byAlso published here 1996
Untold
6
Ken Krenzel, Edward Marlo, Gary Kurtz False Breast Pocket Extraction one of several cards palmed in left hand
 		1997
Ingenuities
163
Edward Marlo, Ken Krenzel Transfer with Jacket
Related to 1997
Ingenuities
164
Norman Houghton Pocket Load
1997
Karten à la carte
46
Jack McMillen McMillen's Card from Pocket card apparently removed from inside pocket with hand holding deck, really from deck
Also published here 1997
Labyrinth (Issue 7)
16
Tommy Dowd Card in the Pocket inside pocket, using Kelly bottom placement
Also published here 1997
Card Stories
58
Norman Houghton, Gordon Bruce Norman Houghton's Pocket Extraction trouser pocket
Related to 1998
Card College — Volume 3
722
Dai Vernon, Tommy Dowd, Edward Marlo Producing a Card from Your Inner Left Jacket-pocket (1) before you can show left hand empty, with credit information
 		1998
Card College — Volume 3
724
Edward Marlo Producing a Card from your Inner Right Jacket-pocket (2) before you apparently show both hands empty
Also published here 1998
Card College — Volume 3
727
Dan Garrett Pocket Load Transfer
1998 ca.
Flexing and Twisting
3
Roger Crosthwaite Breast Pocket Switch as it is removed
Related to 1999
Arcardia
90
Wesley James, Derek Dingle The Speed Load "A Wallet Load Technique"
 		2000
Ambitious Undertaking
16
Barry Price Card from Pocket Handling inner jacket pocket
Inspired by 2000
Escamotage 2
28
Peter Duffie Pocket Ruse producing two cards from different pockets with one palm
Also published here 2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
74
Norman Houghton Houghton Pocket Load trousers
 		2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
115
Edward Marlo Marlo Pocket Transfer
2002
Scams & Fantasies with Cards
117
Luis H. Trueba Carta al Bolsillo method to transfer card to inside of the jacket, similar to Gary Kurtz's The Empty Hand
Related toAlso published here
  • Luis Trueba's "Carta al Bolsillo" in ""La Circular de la Escuela Mágica de Madrid" N° 106, 1983. P. 197.
 2003
Magia y Dramagia
65
Wesley James Card from Pocket while Palming three cards palmed, one of them removed from pocket, others remains in palm
 		2004
Enchantments
131
Edward Marlo Lapel Load from palm
Related to 2004
Enchantments
131
Wesley James, Derek Dingle The Speed Load - A Wallet Loading Technique
2004
Enchantments
188
Dave Rumfelt Breast Pocket Extraction card comes from deck
 		2005
Up In Smoke
14
Dave Rumfelt Card from Shirt Pocket
Related to
  • Dave Rumfelt's "Card from Pocket!" in Paul Diamond's "Mister Humble and Friends: Impromptu Magic", p. 10
 2005
Ackerman 2004
24
Barrie Richardson Cop Pocket Removal without inserting whole hand in pocket
 		2005
Act Two
214
Dave Rumfelt Shirt Pocket Extraction really comes from deck
 		2007
Best of Friends — Volume III
254
Dave Rumfelt Card from Breast Pocket card comes from deck, without credit
 		2007
Random Walk
12
Dave Rumfelt Card from Breast Pocket
2010
Vortex
130
Edward Marlo, Allan Ackerman Card from Pocket Idea Variation
Inspired byAlso published here 2012
The Cardjurer
62
Dave Rumfelt Card from Shirt Pocket
2012
The Cardjurer
67
Juan Tamariz Card to Breast Pocket under Sweater finesse in which the spectator removes card
 		2012
Juan Pair
15
Palmed Card from Inside Pocket
Related to 2013
The Magic of Steven Hamilton
51
Dave Rumfelt, Christian Scherer Card from Breast Pocket variation
 		2014
Schlaglichter
309
Gordon Bruce Pocket Load
2014
El Puente Invisible
95
Juan Tamariz Pocket Load using only thumb, brief
 		2014
El Puente Invisible
95
Dave Rumfelt Card from Breast Pocket no-palm, with finesse
 		2015
F for Fiction
16
Jack McMillen Pocket Bluff Removal no-palm
 		2015
F for Fiction
17
Gary Kurtz The Empty Hand
Related to 2016
The Secrets of So Sato
23
Jack McMillen Production from Pocket top card of deck apparently extracted from pocket
 		2016
The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc.
110
Alexander Hansford Back Pocket Subtlety Tenkai palm production used as convincer in the context of card to pocket routine to show hand empty, see also p. 27
Related to 2016
Sprezzatura
7
Roberto Giobbi Card to Pocket I at which angle to take palmed card out of pocket
 		2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Dec 12)
355
Roberto Giobbi Card to Pocket II
2016
Hidden Agenda (Issue Dec 13)
356
Edward Marlo Card from Pocket at edge of jacket
 		2016
Magnum Opossum
42
Mike O'Brien Pocket Utility Switch card is sticking out of breast pocket, it is switched as it is removed
Inspired by
  • "Impossible Card in Pocket" (Dave Rumfelt, M-U-M, Nov. 1974)
Also published here 		Feb. 2016
Genii (Vol. 79 No. 2)
48
Gordon Bruce Trouser Pocket Removal
2016
Burners — Vol. 4
118
Card from Pocket Pretend to pull card from inside jacket pocket, actually taking from top of the deck as jacket is held open
 		2017
The Truth 真相
27
Edward Marlo Inside Pocket Load
Related to 2018
Firkin of Deipotent Trouvailles
51
Dai Vernon Card from Pocket inner jacket pocket
VariationsAlso published here 2018
The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Issue 1)
180
Inside Pocket Extraction card apparently removed from inside pocket, actually from packet in other hand
 		July 2019
Elixir (Vol. 2 No. Spring Equinox (Special Preview))
Helder Guimarães, Peter Duffie Extended Pocket Ruse for three cards
Inspired by 2019
Secret Language — Volume 1
145
John Graham Outta' Pocket bluff removal from pocket, then loaded into the hand from the other hand where it is palmed
 		Nov. 2019
Genii (Vol. 82 No. 11)
78
Norman Houghton Pocket Load here credited to Carlyle, trousers
 		2019
52 Lovers — Through the Looking-Glass
174
Inside Pocket Extraction card apparently removed from inside pocket, actually from packet in other hand
 		May 2020
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. 1 Part 1 (Spring #2))
188
Dave Rumfelt Card to Pocket Move breast pocket, actually from deck
 		2020
Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy
575
Alexander Hansford Back Pocket Subtlety showing hand empty before production from back pocket
Related to 2021
Often Rarely That Simple
179
Edward Marlo Inside Jacket Pocket used to load ID card into wallet inside coat pocket
Related to 2021
Lorem Ipsum
11
Gary Kurtz The Empty Hand Inside Jacket Pocket
Also published here Aug. 2021
The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 5)
127
Card to Pocket via Master Move
Dec. 2021
The Disclaimer (Vol. 1 No. 9)
234
Dave Rumfelt Breast Pocket Extraction card comes from deck, without credit
 		2021
Mi(s)directa Magia Vol. I
35
Max Malini Rear Palm with extraction from pocket
 		2022
Max Malini
261
Dave Rumfelt Breast Pocket Extraction card comes from deck
 		2022
La Campanella
96
Dai Vernon Removing Palmed Card from Pocket from private lecture notes by Gene Matsuura
 		2022
Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic
109
Edward Marlo Card from Pocket at edge of jacket
Also published here
  • MAGIC, June 2009
 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)
868
Edward Marlo Cross-body pocket transfer left hand palming card and holding left lapel, goes across to inner-right jacket pocket to produce card
 		2022
Vallarino
252
Juan Tamariz Card from Back Pocket Choreography cop, first searching in wrong pocket
 		2022
Letters from Juan — Volume 5
25
Mike O'Brien Pocket Utility Switch card is sticking out of breast pocket, it is switched as it is removed
Inspired by
  • "Impossible Card in Pocket" (Dave Rumfelt, M-U-M, Nov. 1974)
Also published here 		Jan. 2023
Genii (Vol. 86 No. 1)
62
Helge Thun Thuns Tenkai Taschen Taktik one-handed transfer of classic palmed card to Tenkai Palm, then production choreography from inside pocket
 		2023
Seminah 3
61
Norman Houghton Pocket Extraction Subtlety
2023
The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda
180
Dave Rumfelt Card from Breast Pocket
Related to 2024
All In — Volume 1
98
Edward Marlo, Allan Ackerman Card from Pocket Idea Variation
Inspired byAlso published here 2024
All In — Volume 1
135
Roberto Giobbi The Empty Pocket Ruse choreography to load a palmed card while removing other object from the pocket
 		2024
Unexpected Agenda (Issue Jan 8)
20
Neal Elias On the Card to the Pocket palmed card transferred to inside pocket, finesse by Arthur Chavaudret
Also published here 2024
Missing Almost Every Thing
138