The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-04-16


and put his proper cards instead.
: Another move of the foot and the
hold-out would retire under his arm.
All through the game catgut man
would fix hands and fix them ready in
his hold-out for an emergency. Fat men
are the best to work a catgut, as they
are usually the most uneasy about their
clothes. You think anyone could detect
all this work and flourish No doubt.
But you should reflect that these peo-
pie are no experts as Hermann or KEEL
lar at whatever they are doing.
ga sleeve hold-out was something the
same, but wo1 ked in the left sleeve 1t
was clumsy thing, though, and as
the frame was steel one had to be care
full and not strike it against the table.
The noise would give you dead away.
| A catgut cost two hundred dollars A
sleeve hold-out was worth fifty dollars
'Short-card players have lot of
signs, too. Very often a couple of gam
blers, strangers to each other, find
themselves IN the same game. Each
| discovers the presence of his skilled
| brother mighty quick. Now the
chances are. these two thieves go into
! immediate partnership right under the
| victims nose and eyes.
is it in and imp says one sharp in a
low tone of careless amiability as if
talking to himself A nod from the
other is enough. They are to divide
after the game. A gambler believes a
little sure money is better than big
money on chances. 1t is the bird in
the hand being better than two in the
bush over again, SO they had no trouble
in agreeing. When two are after one
in a poker game it is easy. They can
raise and keep raising and as he is in |
between them his calling doesn't stop |
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 o
giant raise and as the victim calls it,
the OF Ter one discreetly stays out and so
avoids showing his hand.
81 was sitting in little game last
summer up in Boston, and all were
strangers to me. II never entered my
head that any of the rest were strong
people, and ] was looking for a nice
coy 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 and, after
looking at it, gave his aged head
a very light but significant pat,
just as Sullivan does in the play
when he says; Let me think 1t was
a signal to the rascal at my elbow, and
meant Pat hand here You should
have seen the three jacks 1 owned go
into the discard-z-z-z-zl l didn't want
any of it. The pat-hand man noticed
it and saw l was on. Make it three?'
1 inquired, and the two robbers nodded
a weary approval So we three all
laid for one man then. My end came
to sixty dollars.
Yes; you can cheat at faro bank.
You have to have a box fixed to deal i
double and fitted with a put back place. ;
Then the cards must be strippers and V
sand backs. You can take a pair of g
shears, or an expert can make any deck
into shippers. 1t is a nice job and
worth just twenty-five dollars to do it.
In cheating at faro bank the dealer a
must not only know where every card
S, but unless the case-keeper knows,
90, or if any player is marking tab
IN the game he must be able to put
Jack the second cards he finds it
necessary to deal These second cards :
lie does not put in the two little stacks
which show the cards turned. But 4
hey are dropped in his lap on hand :,
erchief As rule, when a bank is 0
DING the cheating, there are half a !
Oxen players around the board who "
re in on the play. A bank
nth sucker to rob will o
mploy a bevy to sit around and make =
retended bets with chips lent to them. n
hey would get five dollars night ;,
piece for this pretended playing and OK
re there to ill up the table and make "
crowd just like supers at a theater. :;
whenever it is necessary to put back e.
lrds these outsiders on a pretense of tic
lacing bets will raise up or stretch m,
cross the layout between the sucker
Id the dealer. That is all the cover "a,
larp dealer needs and in go the cards !
hich ought not to be out. This may al
, done two or three times during a nc
al. No; no regular room as a rule
i'll turn in to cheat a man. 1t could IN.
IT afford to gain the reputation. 1862
hen sucker is spotted, a new room an
hired altogether, and layout put
and Mr. Victim is steered against it. ar
hen he is skinned, the room closes. vii
nat games mission on earth is ended. Pri
ut takes a good deal of money to r 9o
y the expenses of a faro bank. There
a bank in the bottoms where there ~,
e three tables run day and night, be- i
les side games like roulette Ittakes, ef
uniting dealers, look-outs and all the Dis
st down to porters, at least forty
m to run this room. Some of them To
) high-priced people like the dealers NJ
i 1ook-outs, who get from five to 1913
zen and half dollars day, seven pddo
Us IN the week Even the porter boo
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