Show 0 t- t ti i J c. c T t AP Al HAS NO SHOW SAYS TIME OLD CARD SHA SHARK K Professional Gambler Gam ler Shows How Cards Ca ds A Aref r re f Marked M 4 f to Deceive the he Honest Poker Player Player uNo No Such Thing as 90 a Gentleman's Game Game- Forty years at fleecing is the record record record rec rec- ord of an an old man whose face and figure figure figure fig fig- ure ure are familiar to some some-of the smartest smartest smartest smart smart- est dwellers on the West Side and to every gambling house of any note in inthe Inthe inthe the country He Ie is an old man now nearly sixty He has made and lost losta a dozen fortunes Out of the wreck he has managed to save a tidy tidy sum sum sum- enough to enable him to support infine in infine fine style a wife three beautiful daughters daughters daughters daugh daugh- and two college bred sons Like the broker and the banker who grow tired of the fray he has retired yet in his eager alert mind there still dwells every secret known to the card shark sharle every trick of the skin game From Prom Paris to London from San Francisco to New York from Canada to New Orleans he has picked these up Some he has Invented himself Never until ur til a week ago had he divulged divulged divulged di di- one of them The unwritten law among gamblers forbade it Yet in a a moment of enthusiasm he was persuaded to throw light on these dark secrets of the gaming house From the lips of a man who has witnessed many tragedies of the green table it is interesting to learn how he accomplished accomplished pUshed it how he has managed to escape the law how he could look upon sharking card as a legitimate business The man who cheats at cards earns his his' money he said The professional profession profession- al gambler must throw all fine sentiments sentiments sentiments senti senti- ments to the winds when he embarks on his career Friendship friendship why why friendship ceases as we say the c cA ct i M A eg n tI tW t T y i W ctt t M 1 Bf 1 t minute play is started Honor hon non honesty honesty esty mercy mercy all ail go You are out to tc win to win to win no matter how Youcan You Yot Youcan can show no quarter You may be sittIng sitting sit sit- ting fink behind the best hand hand in the deck you may know what the other fellow fellon h has something has s something good that he will play pIa to the limit You know that if he hebets hEbets I bets his pile he is ruined Do you let lei letup letup up on on him 1 Oh yes after he has ha has has' shoved over his last chip and cant can't get credit for any more more No quarter You Y u have to to do It it You may be willing will willing ing to buy wine for the crowd afterward afterward afterward after after- ward to to the extent of a hundred spot 6 but t you ou wouldn't l let t that man keep keel five dollars dollars' in iii i 1 front of him I r have been a gambler nearly almy almy al all my l life fe and and andI I w will ill say now now that the the honest gambler h has s never been born born It is Impossible for him to be hon honest st st. Times Times' come when he does not cheat but it itis Is for ia lack k of opportunity WEare We Weare are are re out o ot t tto to win It It is our business b siness tc to win Gambling is is' all aU chance to the th-e honest m man n. n We We have to eliminate eliminate chance ch nce as as far as possible if we w are r to ti tomake J oJ make a livelihood out ut of it 5 There is no such thing as thing its s a gentlemen's gen ens game gilme unless j nl y u. u PH t the atthe the table anc history history of every man at even then then It ft isn't For For nearly nearl forts forty years years I have played I hav have belonged to some swell clubs Of course have I hav che cheated ted I co could ld not not othave have won enough to pay my dues regularly if it I had h d notI notI notI not I wore good cloth clothes clothe's s had a good address address address ad ad- dress and no one suspected that I was wa wasa wasa a g gambler and a cheat i 1 did no not nol make the mistake of playing all aU th the the time at one club One night a a. weel 4 i rI 1 was enough at at each Of Often my business business business busi busi- ness compelled me to leave to-leave leave town On On- these little trips I went to other cities to play Ilay poker Once after a run of off feigned f hard luck luck- luckI I quit playing laying en en- I was careful to announce the fact What do you you suppose I did in the interval I drew 75 a a. week for marking cards That Thatis is the principal secret of my success success marked marked cards I knew how to do it and practically all aU my life as asa asa asa a gambler I have played with decks so marked that I could read the backs of the cards as well as others could read the faces There are few packs which cannot be fixed in this style by a little tulle time and and patience on the part of an expert Of cour course e it is possible e to buy brace decks where the marking is done in the printing But I preferred to mark my own cards Of course the theother theother theother other players were at my mercy They might as well have spread their hands down on the table face up I knew what every man held There are all sorts of ways to mark cards The simplest is the best To the casual observer there must beno be beno beno no difference between the cards Take this pack D Do Y you you U see see anything wrong n about the backs Loo Look closely No Certainly you would not if you saw them only in shuffling and dealing amid the excitement of the game game They are marked and I can tell the I denomination and suit as fast as I can candeal candeal candeal deal them This is the ace of spades this the king Icing of clubs eight of spades and so on All AIl quite remark remarkable ble you get the key leey and then it is so plain that yourself lf With you fe feel l like kic kicking yours z a aJ aThe J The Key Kev Card this pack th there re is a border in the form I I of a wall of Troy with white dots Inthe in inthe the center of each open square Start- Start f Y 11 t. t iti F. F f Ing with the upper right hand had corner the dot in the first space represents represent an ace the next next- to the left a king queen Jack ten and so on down to the deuce Mark out the dot with ink of th the same color as the background of the the card If the dot is missing in inthe the ace ace square the card Is an ace and so on along long the line For the suits start on the upper right side The dot missing from the square below the ace next diamonds clubs means spades c 1 1 and hearts Do Vo the same with the corner diagonally opposite and and you you have the cards marked so so the signs will show when the cards are reversed reversed re- re versed Yet a man earns his money playing with marked marced cards It is a frightful strain In In the first place you must learn the combination so thoroughly that you dont don't have to stop to think Your eyes must be on every card that falls if another man is dealing and andas andas andas as soon scon as it falls Some men hold h ld their cards too closely to permit the theba backs ba ks to be read Then you must remember what each man received in order to judge his draw If he holds up four diamonds you must take note whether he gets a diamond on the draw If his Is four cards are arc two pairs you ou have to be on the lookout kout to see whether he fills his hand And then then then- you might be found out Discovery disgrace hangs hangs' over you all the time and you must mu t see everything without app apparently paying more attention to the cards of o the others than anybody else around the table An amateur p er player no matter matter matter mat mat- ter how expert exp rt n slightest chance against aare a aare aare are too many tricks professional knows en em make ita It a sure thing thing- o- o crry t f M nent Is floundering hopelessly In the the- mazes of New chance cl New New York Press 1 |