OCR Text |
Show ' GOOD POINTER FOR GAMBLERS. How to Make Money Out of Easy Going Strangers. ; 1 "I thought I was pretty wlso to all , i sorts of games," said a gambler, "but J , I've Just been benton out of a five- ' : ' spot as easily as though 1 camo from ' f - ' Cohoes. A friend and I had been R standing In the doorway of a hotel ' betting on tho odd or even numbers of RL: . the next car to pass, and 1 was loser. i j Then tho other follow suggested that I ' trv to call a coin, head or tall, for $5, Ras n chance to get my money back. I agreed. Ho slapped a quarter on tho back of his hand and I said 'heads.' It ., was a tall, and 1 was a llvo out. ( I "Tho cxperlcnco was worth It, though, for he told mo tho gamo after 'i Joshing mo for n good thing. It Is ,' ; , Instinct, ho said, for almost every ' . ono In calling a coin to sy head, so ; ' ho always placed tho coin talis up I ' when tho other man was to call It. Ho said that tho gamo worked nlno times t " out of ten, and he didn't really con- slder It unfair, becauso ho was prac- j j tlcally betting mo that I would say ' E 'heads,' though I didn't know It. I llko jB if tho game, and I'm going to try It on 38 g-' some of tho wlso ones I know. I'll bet ifflBKj It works, too." |