The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-11-28
Tricks m Playing Cards. fNew York Talewvaph.i

AQ y04 034N M &9y @ R8AA VI 08AS- parent playing eards" said man last evening on Broadway, between Twenty sixth and Twenty.6ftA streets. just below the St James hotel, to arepoEteT who was passing down. The card-selleF was a short. heavy.set man, with black nous tache. He was ~ell-dressed, and strolled along as if he were a gentleman of leis- ure.
 "L Let me see them"
 "i will. Come with me. Remember mumS the word"
 He turned into Twenty. u tth street, and from the light reflected from drug store window exhibited pack of transparent cards,
 What is your pricer"
 "I ask only two dollars for this pack. have them as high as five dollars"
 Do you sell many packs p
 Some days ] do. have to be very careful. am always afraid some one will squeal on me. l can read human nature pretty well. The minute saw you felt that you would not squeal oh me"
 Suppose Anthony Comstock should ind you out F'
 "Oh, know him by sight. went to school with his boys. He wants bigger game than me. He is too high up 10 mo- tice my li,,le racket"
 Have you any marked rlaying cards ?"
 Get out. you don't mean iii We'll, 1 can get them tor you from SI So to Sio a pack. But it's queer and ueknsh work You can't play poker-you don't want themp"
 "l invented jackpot poker and taught ex- Minister Schenck how to play. l want more pointers" was the Munchausen an- sweF
 Well, there are thirty five different marked back playing cards manufactured. l know how to read with ease twenty-Six of them. The marks are on the right hand corner and are read by the eye, and not by feeling, as greenhorns suppose. II the cards have flowers pictured on their backs, then the marks are flowers. They are so cunningly placed that an old pro fessional, unless he knows that style oi card IS marked, will never suspect any. thing. 0! course these cards are not manufactured by legitimate houses. Ger. tain crooked concerns turn them out, This city is the only place where they are manufactured extensively. A clique C gamblers frequently get monopoly os certain brands of marked cards and make small fortune by selling them to saloon keepers in the small towns. 1t takes a man with good memory to tell at a | lightning glance what card is by its back. These gambling places up town here never use them. They are afraid to ii ruins customers. If man is cheated once at place he drops on the house, and not only stops away himself but blows it to a great many. We work the marked card racket down to an in certain | skin saloons. Those who lose, as a rule, are professional men, who don, know until too late that they are playing in skin establishment. Hungry Joe's fate hasn't checked the swindllng games going on in this city"
 What other methods arc adopted to cheat at card playing" The great skin poker game now is playing with sliding deck of cards We also call that kind of a deck strip pers.' It is simply done by cutting the deck ArkansAw fashion, that is a quick shlitl. The saloon keeper has slid ing deck which he hands out to us, | Alter deal or two l wait uplil my oppo- nent is dealing. When cut shuttle the deck. The sliding cards are some ~h at wider and when shSiil. pull them out and put them on top. know that have put good hand on top which will come to me in the deal. My opponent gets A good hand too, and the game IS to break him the first bet. remember not long ago tha, played the game called
 Twenty. one.' knew the cards by their backs. had pair of tens. My oppo- nent had twenty also. saw an ace on top, and on the strength of i. ~on $i5o on that hand by drawing it. The city Is filled with crooks. One crook don mind cheating another. It's business. When get busted take few packs of trans parent cards and sell them on the streets l haven't been arrested for il yet. nope you won't squeal on me-" ------------ s--s--s ----------------