The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17

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TN, Fhcn q professional erts into q game
h" wins every ~, h. Eo~s into and holds
a straight nu.h every time be dsals, but
Nich IL far frpm ipina the ot-e. n IL quite
enough II he can bring IN thru of four
good coups In tho cournp ~ an evenings
play, and he hsVsr wins ths money when
he deals the cards.
His sllent partner IL the man Who has
tho hig hand, tho dealer just staying In
long enough 10 mahs the stakes worth while
by raising a few tines. The losses are %
distributed that tho lightning shall nos
strike In the same place too often but IL
sure TO hit some ohe who 10 well able 10
pay.
II has lately como into fashion 10 play
bridge instead 81 poker. Some showtly
dressed blonde, who should not deceive a
man OF the world for two minutes, picks out
tho easy marks, finds out whether they have
any cash with them or not AND then In
PRODUCES her friends to the desirable ones.
After dinner the rubber at bridge is sug-
gested and the handsome blonde Ii the big
winner. She never makes n call that does
not fit her partners hand and never cuts a
card that does not make one OF her friends
her partner for the next rubber.
After she has held a hundred aces four
times in three rubbers the victim usually
concludes there Ia some theory about the
game which he does not quite understand,
and he settles up and leaves the table as
politely as his feelings will admit, the
blonde being lawfully sorry about his
bad luck, THE Sun printed q story about
a member Of the Racket Club who fell into
one Of these little traps on the %kronprinz
in November, 1907.
The big money, however, is not usually
made on either poker or bridge. These are
simnly preliminaries to games OF chance
in which large sums can be won or lost in
a few minutes.
Dutch hank is a great fa-orIte because
of its quick action. After the poker game
has heen settled NJ, which it always is in
time to allow for what is to follow, some
one remarks thai he has won two or three
dollars and will go double or quits with
any one else for just one round Of blind
hooky. New cards are called for, which
are opened with great ostentation as being
quite fresh, no one at the table having
ever seen such a pattern back before.
I he truth is that these cards have been
very carefully PREPARED. all those higher
than the I being longer than the others,
while all those below the 7 are narrower.
One man takes the bank and the players
cut the cards into several packets. Most
people cut cards by the sides and they cut
low cards. The o~onfederates cut by the
ends. and they get high cards.
If one of them is the banker 20 much the
better, as he wins from all but his silent
partner, who manages to get what the
wins from the others. In a game
of Dutch bank on the Lucania a few years
ago $1,000 changed hands in less than
twenty minutes just before the smoking
room closed on the last night before reaoh-
ing Queenstown.
How do these hustlers manage to cheat
their victims without being caught? That
is another story.
Some card players think they are very
sharp and know a false shuttle or a passed
when they see It; but the moment a
feels that his victim suspects one
thing he tries something else. 1t Is a
cardinal principle with him that il the
another, because no one but a professional
can possibly know all the tricks Of the
1t is a curious fact that professional
gamblers are usually very poor card players,
is because they have leaned 80 long
On their advantage laying hat they get
about the finer points of the game.
The Chicago Whist Club played a duplicate
match against our of the finest professional
card sharps in Cook county some years ago
and beat them hollow. A husky looking
freshman from Alaska who was on the Car
mania last winter evidently knew this as
he insisted on shutting the cards, no matter |
whose deal 1t was, and threatened to break
heir backs by the energy he put into the
operation.
He was quietly warned that he was play
.ng with professionals. but that seemed
only to urge him on. and he played as if
be knew he had the best OF it as long as he
was sober enough to shuttle the cards every
line. 1t must be confessed that when the
professionals concluded they had had !
enough OF the game the Trishman was quite
! winner.
There is a well known cotton broker in
New York who goes over to the liverpool
market every year who follows the same
never betting a cent in any pot
lnless he has shufled the cards himself.
Ind he usually pays the expenses Of his
rip over.
These are the exceptions. The men who
an do that kind of thing ave as much
1erve az the sharpers they play against. and
hat is why they win. The ordinary ocean