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Scams & Protection

You might think that at a friendly game with your friends or at a professional tournament there is no cheating. Well, think twice, cheating takes place in all kinds of games. It is crucial that you at least know the basic threats of how you can be cheated and how to spot and counter them. If you gamble for a living, you better become a specialist on cheating. The ebooks in this category will tell you all you need and prepare you to not be the mark and the sucker the cheaters steal money from.
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best sellers The Expert at the Card Table 20 Years a Fakir Sharps and Flats best sellers    The Telephone Booth IndianMcGoorty: A Pool Room HustlerHow Gamblers Win - Secrets of Advantage PlayingThree Card MonteScarne on DiceCheating at Hold'emThe Reformed GamblerSharps and FlatsMysterien des KartenspielsForty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi20 Years a FakirThe Rich Uncle from FijiThe Right Way To Do WrongThe Expert at the Card Table
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20 Years a Fakir
20 Years a Fakir

Weldon traveled this country during the last 20 years of the 19th century, learning and perfecting tricks of the street peddler. Many of these ploys are still used today in one form or another. He helped pioneer the many subleties of "street selling" and
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S. James Weldon  $4.00  Read More 
Cheating at Hold'em
Cheating at Hold'em

View the trailer (5MB) for this fantastic DVD.

How to Protect Yourself from Being Scammed at the Card Table
"Cheating at Hold'em" is not a cliché exposé. "Cheating at Hold'em" is a course in protective strategy. "Cheating at Hold'em" will
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David Malek  $29.95  Read More 
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Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

This is the story of a boy who ran away from home to become a cabin boy on a Mississippi riverboat at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. And for forty years after this point in time he bilked people from all walks of live, businessmen,
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George H. Devol  $6.00  Read More 
How Gamblers Win - Secrets of Advantage Playing
How Gamblers Win - Secrets of Advantage Playing

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
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Gerritt M. Evans  $8.00  Read More 
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McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler
McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler

McGoorty is master billiards writer Robert Byrne’s racy account of the life of Danny McGoorty, a billiards champion of that bygone era when cue artists were often scam artists and pool rooms were held to be dens of iniquity. Hustler and hobo, womanizer

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Robert Byrne  $19.00  Read More 
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Mysterien des Kartenspiels
Mysterien des Kartenspiels

Dieses Buch ist in Deutsch verfaßt und ganz dem falschen Spiel mit Karten gewidmet. Es behandelt unter anderem Griffe wie das Falschmischen, Spielaustausch, präparierte Karten und Gehilfen.

Erstausgabe, 1900, Berlinische Verlagsanstalt; 53 pages.
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Arthur Toskana  $7.00  Read More 
Scarne on Dice
Scarne on Dice

This is probably the most important work John Scarne wrote. It is complete and authoritative. In this revised edition John provides the reader with a complete look at the world of dice, including for the first time an insider's view of how dice games are
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John Scarne  $12.00  Read More 
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Sharps and Flats
Sharps and Flats

Sharps and Flats is probably the most important early book on cheating devices and methods. Sharps being the cheaters and flats being the cheated, the mark. Maskelyne details among others, marked cards, holdouts (Kepplinger holdout), reflectors and manipulation.
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John Nevil Maskelyne  $7.00  Read More 
The Expert at the Card Table
The Expert at the Card Table

Originally entitled Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table, is probably the most cited and referenced book about card gambling moves - a classic in the history of magic literature. A must read for any card magician or aspiring gambling expert
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S. W. Erdnase  $5.00  Read More 
The Reformed Gambler
The Reformed Gambler

This book is one of the classic books in gambling. It is an autobiography and describes Jonathan Green's conversion from a gambler to an exposer and teacher.

Among others it exposes: game of thimbles; diamond cut diamond, or the gentleman's game;
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Jonathan H. Green  $19.50  Read More 
The Rich Uncle from Fiji
The Rich Uncle from Fiji

A classic textbook containing numerous swindles for those who desire to take down and rope the public! It is unique in that it has the only written description of the coin purse swindle - complete with photographs. Many of these cons are being used today,
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M. P. Adams  $4.00  Read More 
The Right Way To Do Wrong
The Right Way To Do Wrong

This is a fun book to read. Great stories about pickpockets, burglars, bunco men, thiefs, and others. Houdini collected interesting cases talking to detectives, and police chiefs. The book describes the methods used to scam innocent victims. Some of these
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Harry Houdini  $5.00  Read More 
The Telephone Booth Indian
The Telephone Booth Indian

A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. J. Liebling.

Often referred to as 'Liebling lowlife pieces,' the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. A. J. Liebling

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A. J. Liebling  $19.00  Read More 
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Three Card Monte
Three Card Monte

This is a treatise on the sucker effects of the Three Card Monte. It starts with an intro by Nate Leipzig, includes a definition of gambling terms and goes on to explain moves, routines and schemes to work the Three Card Monte. John Scarne was a master
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Audley V. Walsh &
John Scarne
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