East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-28

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cannot placate the whole police de-
partment. And even when 1t IL
thought that the gambler king Is i'm
pregnable in his castle some one may
break over the barriers and raid the
place in the name of law and order.
Within few years New York has
given to the world some of the inside
workings of the gambling business.
When Jerome raided the place of
places which had been considered i'm
mune, the proprietor of the house was
Before the litigation was done and
the fine paid, the king gambler was
closed, and he had been branded Of
ficially as common gambler, pur-
sued in the courts for payment Of
lawyers fees, which he designated as
outrageous and "shrieking scandal"
Yet this man was of the type whose
word was as good as his bond.
The dice, faro and roulette are the
principal games of the gambling
house and considering these the ex-
perienced player will tell you that he
is suspicious OF "petey' in the dice
box, a "high layout" in faro and
squeezed wheel in roulette in just
the proportion that the gambling
house keeper has not recognized that
he cannot indulge them because nf
the fear of detection. The gambler
holds to the gamblers view of the
gambler-and It is not complimentary
to the profession.
That the gentleman gambler is jus
titled in his attitude toward the gen.
tleman player, too. has been shown in
New York revelations. There one
gentleman player. loser to the extent
of 100000, compromised with the
bank" for 1870 bills of $1,000 ie-
nomination. There a gentleman playey
who had lost 500. 900 to the bank tried
to compromise on 100000. but was in
a position where the bank could hold
him. How much the gambler king
may loan and lose in the course OF a
year scarcely can be approximatoG.
The gambling debt is "a debt Of
honor" and even in business not all
such debts are paid. Whether a bor-
rowed debt or debt of loss to the
"bank' this honor is th9 security
unless in emergency the gambler king
discovers that he can blackmail with
safety to his interests as a whole.
In general the gambler who is ION
the square" operates on a 10 per cent
basis for his bank. In addition there
is the unknown per cent which is
at the end Of the year. The roulette
wheel, for example, presents to the
player just one chance in 81 of win
ming on "A single play, while the win
ming on that play is paid in the pro-
portion of only "a to 1. o
The one great characteristic IN hui
man nature on which the gambler
counts is the fact that II requires more
nerve in a man to win Than is re-
qutred OF him to lose! II is startling
for ~" layman to be told thai $4,000
in - T.G'N IS big winnlEg for play
er, while $4,000 is only an ordinary
loss in big establishment.
The fact is based in subtle lssychol-
| ogy. There are two tyPes OF players
onH of which CANDLES when II is in
state 'Uf elation and The other Out
of Il stage of depression With either
of these types winning it is Il gam
blers observation that the man who
VIII play until he has lost $500
when luck hopelessly is against hin,
cannot hold himself to tlIe chair after
he is $1,000 winner.
Gamblers have made money-for-
tuneE-in times past. only to be buried
in the potter's field. There are sew
eral reasons. assignable for Tins end.
Extravagam living appeals to the
gambler, and when he has left his
own special line of gaming it does not
appeal to him strongly as either pas
time or means of recouping his for
tune. II he yurns to gaming at all
it is likely to be in fields where he
does not know the game. Sometimes
he goes to the board of trade--some-
times to the stock market Playing
there he is without system and with
out knowledge Of conditions. He is
likely to bull the grain market two
days after the weather conditions
have assured the greatest grain crop
in history.
Once a gambler, always a gambler
is his condition, and # is only mat
ter of time until some one has a game
which beas him out