Scams & ProtectionYou 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.Download catalog PDF for this category. |
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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 ...more |
S. James Weldon |
2005-09-05 |
$4.00 |
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Cheating at Hold'em
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 provide you with all the knowledge needed to ...more |
David Malek |
2005-11-18 |
$29.95 |
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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, ...more |
George H. Devol |
2005-09-05 |
$6.00 |
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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 |
Gerritt M. Evans |
2008-03-13 |
$8.00 |
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Juice
Juicing a deck of cards is a professional marking system that is only visible to the trained eye. A good recipe of effective juice is very hard to come by. Friendships have been destroyed over such secrets. Some shops are selling already juiced decks or ...more |
Alan Rorrison |
2009-03-07 |
$25.00 |
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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 |
Robert Byrne |
2008-09-20 |
$19.00 |
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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 |
2005-09-05 |
$7.00 |
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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 ...more |
John Scarne |
2007-09-13 |
$12.00 |
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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. ...more |
John Nevil Maskelyne |
2005-09-05 |
$7.00 |
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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 ...more |
S. W. Erdnase |
2005-06-14 |
$5.00 |
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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; ...more |
Jonathan H. Green |
2005-09-05 |
$19.50 |
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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, ...more |
M. P. Adams |
2005-08-09 |
$4.00 |
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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 ...more |
Harry Houdini |
2005-08-09 |
$5.00 |
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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 |
A. J. Liebling |
2008-12-13 |
$19.00 |
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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 ...more |
Audley V. Walsh &
John Scarne |
2008-01-10 |
$5.00 |
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