El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-01

er observes that one Of his more ad-
venturous players is especially apt to
pet on the ace or the king. At once
deck is introduced which contains
an extra ace and king The dealer
knows where these two extra cards
lie. He can kill one of them. both
OF them, by using his double card
spring, slipping them into the dis
card. Whichever way the man bets
that an ace or king will win or lose.
the dealer can throw the card against
him. 80
Some Facts On Roulette.
There are various persons who will
get out their little Jevons textbook on
logic and tell you that roulette wheel
cannot be made to work otherwise than
fairly, but none the less every little
while the manufacturers Of gamblers,
apparatus get an order for a mules
ear 1t IS wheel in which the in
ciined circular traek-for all the world
like the track on which the k-dav
cyclists go their endless round-has in
1t a depressible segment shaped ike
a mules ear
The touch Of a button, the mule,
ear drops down A curved edge Of
wood is presented to the rolling bali.
which defects it suddenly into the
waiting numbered pocket.
The Platinum Bail.
Inc platinum ball is a new invention
The two machines of this descrintio,
which Mr.. Flynn means to show 70
the grand jury have spindles in their
centers of alternating zinc and eopper
strong current o. electricity NAV
be thrown by means of fine wire
brushes to either the zinc or conner
sections. The roulette bail Ordinarily
OF ivory or eomposition) is in this ma
chine made of platinum The positive
or negative electric current attracts or
rejects platinum with great violence
The heavy BETS are on the RED
me croupier throws the switch so that
All the red pockets reject the ball as
though it bore pestilence. The bets
are most heavily upon the black. An
other button is pressed and the ball
bounds out of the black pockets as
though there were a fiend kicking out
of every black hole
About the Finger Flick.
Then there is the finger flick" The
croupier gives the revolving center Of
the wheel bearing the boxes a shove
which sets it whirlinsS He spins the
wheel in the other direction. He rests
his hand on the edge of the wheel
frame confeedrate-every gambling
house has its full quota of confeder-
ates-tips over a pile of checks on the
layout; every player jumps to pro
tect his bet" The croupier's finger
flicks out and back and the bali is
safely prevented Gust when it is roll
ing slow from going to the side of the
wheel where the heaviest betting lies.
There are men and women busted
night and day in marking cards by
the dozen for poker players. Certain
dealers with regular clients have card
envelope systems containing alphabet
ically the marking. of cards desired
by particular clients, not to be dupli
Gated within a radius of a thousand
miles. Innocent young girls are en-
ployed day and night shading out and
marking in curleycues on the pattern
ed backs of cards by which the PLAYERS
for which they are made are to know
the ace from the king and the deuce
from they trey. Only the man who
deals with real suckers never marks
an ace-it is the one card over which
the greenhorn looks with microscopic
care for traces Of unfair play
ButfinE the Cards.
What do you know aoout butting the
cards2 Tt is just as true in faro as in
poker. The man who shoves the cards
together in shuffling so that they fall
cheat; he knows exactly where every
into absolutely alternative layers is a
card of the 52-or Stiles all the
time.
If a dice is six square to all the
winds that blow the chances are
are they not?-that one face will fan
on top with just as much frequency as
another. But suppose a die is shaped
like a railroad tie? It will fall not
upon its ends, but lergthwise. Now.
suppose the frightening is cdt down
until ii is imperceptible. It will stiIl
tend to fall on its longest side.
Who said the good old days. of
crooked gambling are over? Certainly.
these discoveries by Mr.. Flynn show
that they are not