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This is a pre-Erdnase description of moves and ruses to cheat at the card table by an unnamed 'retired professional'. However, Bart Whaley's research revealed that this retired professional was Gerrit M. Evans, that his real name was most likely Edward M. Grandin and that Evans/Grandin was not a professional gambler. (Bart is working on an upcoming book about Evans - The Mysterious Gambler.)
This ebook was created from the 1868 edition. There is also an earlier 1865 edition. The 1868 faked edition drops the name of the author who is, of course, Evans/Grandin, pretends that the "anonymous" author is a "retired" gambler, which of course, Evans/Grandin was not, and adds a section giving an incorrect description of "Three Card Monte".
The description reads:
A complete and scientific expose of the manner of playing all the various advantages in the games of poker, all-fours, euchre, vingt-un, whist, cribbage, etc., as practiced by professional gamblers upon the uninitiated.
Together with a brief analysis of legitimate play. By a retired professional.
1st edition 1865, 2nd edition 1868; original 112 pages; PDF 48 reformatted pages.
Table of contents (click to hide/show)
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- Preface
- Introduction - The Origin of Cards
- Bluff, Or Poker
- The Square Game
- Top Stock
- The Bottom Stock
- The Jog Stock
- The Palm Stock
- Running Up Two Hands
- Flushes, Fulls And Fours
- Strippers
- Briefs
- "Second" Dealing
- Bottom Dealing
- Crimping
- Cold Decks
- Holding Out
- False Shuffles
- False Cuts
- Shifting The Cut
- Convexes And Reflectors
- "Paper"
- Of Partnerships
- Draw Poker
- Stocking For A Draft
- Double Discard
- Shifting The Cut After Dealing
- The "Bug"
- Running Up Hands
- Marked Cards
- Seven-Up, Or High, Low Jack
- The Half-Stock
- The Whole Stock
- Crimping
- Marking The Edges
- Strippers
- Briefs
- The High Hand
- Holding Out And Dealing Seven Cards
- Turning Jack From The Bottom
- Paper
- Euchre
- The High Hand
- Vingt-Un, Or Twenty-One
- Whist
- Cribbage
- The Value Of "Paper" To The Gambler
- Loaded Dice
- Dice Tops
- Dead Props
- A Few Specimens Of Card-Sharping
- Valedictory
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Gambling > Scams & Protection
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