St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-01-30

ais Il in and imp says one sharp IN Z
low tone of careless amiability as i
talking to himself. A nod from the
other il enough They are to divide
after the game. A gambler believes q
little sure money is better than big
money on chances. II is the bird il
the hand being better than two in the
bush over again. SO they had no trouble
in agreeing. When two are after one
in poker game it is easy. They can
raise and keep raising and as he is In
between them his calling doesn't stor
the exercise at all. He is thus led along
to put up more money than he should
or would. At last one of the sharps-
the one with the right hand-makes q
giant raise and as the victim calls 1t,
the OF ler one discreetly stays out and SO
avoids showing his hand.
II was sitting in q little game last
summer up in Boston, and all were
strangers to me. 1t never entered my
head that any of the rest were strong
people. and ! was looking for nice
cozy time all to myself with three
suckers. You can judge of my disgust
as the old gray-headed party oppo-
site, in an early hour of the game,
picked up his hand a2d, after
looking at it. gave his aged head
q very light but significant pat,
just as Sullivan does in the play
when he says; Let me think It was
signal to the rasca. at my elbow, and
meant Pat hand here You should
have seen the three jacks I owned 60
into the discard-z-z-z-z. l didn't want
any of it. The pat-hand man noticed
it and saw was on. Make it three?'
I inquired, and the two robbers nodded
a weary approval So we three all
laid for one man then. My end came
to sixty dollars
"Ycs; you can cheat at faro bank.
You have to have box fixed to deal
double and fitted with put back place.
Then the cards must be strippers and
sand backs You can take . pair of
shears, or an expert can make any deck
into strippers 1t is a nice job and
worth just twenty-five dollars to do it.
In cheating at faro bank the dealer
must not only know where every card
is, but unless the case-keeper knows,
too, or if any player is marking . tab
on the game he must be able to put
back the second cards he finds It
necessary to deal. These second cards
he does not put in the two little stacks
which show the cards turned. But
they are dropped in his lap on . hand
kerchief. As q rule, when . bank Is
doing the cheating. there are half .
dozen players around the board who
are in on the play. A bank
with a sucker to rob will
employ bevy to sit around and make
pretended bets with chips lent TO them.
They would get five dollars q night
apiece for this pretended playing and
are there to fill up the table and make
a crowd just like supers at q theater
Whenever it is necessary to put back
cards these outsiders on . pretense Of
placing bets will raise up or stretch
across the lay out between the sucker
and the dealer. That is all the cover =
sharp dealer needs and In 20 the cards
which ought not to be out This may
be done two or three times during .
deal. No; no regular room Is . rule
will turn in to cheat . man. It could
not afford to gain the reputation.
When a sucker is spotted, . new room
is hired altogether, and . layout put
in and Mr.. Victim is steered against it.
When he is skinned, the room closes.
That games mission on earth is ended.
1T takes a good deal Of money to
pay the expenses of faro bank. There
is bank in the bottoms where there
are three tables run day and night, be.
sides side games like roulette. Ittakes.
dealers, look-outs and all the
rest down to porters. at least forty
men to run this room. Some of them
are kigh-priced people like the dealers
and look-outs, who get from five to
seven and q half dollars a day. seven
lays in the week Even the porter
gets twelve dollars a week. Then there
are gas bills, rents and all the expenses
Tor chips, cards, tables, etc, to say
nothing of blsckmaiL The whole ex.
pense of running the bank is at least
=. 900 a week. There is nothing cheap
about faro bank"