The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1900, Page 5

: THE SUNDAY CALL. 5 xpose of the Secrets of Qheating By Brofessor Alfred Benzon, €< "The King of Qards.”’ /A3 ARD rharpers are divided Into two mere fact of one man being toc lucky The sharp first locates any number of (( classes. One is the fin de siecle arouses their suspicions. Outside of the cards of the same suit. ‘This is the > work shown in the first part of my arti- quintese \ity, as he has only N2 sharp. who. baving the entres to SR “LPL0: Domsible to ‘operate Without o plek up (W (r10KS to Have elght trumDs the best soclety, takes little or N0 tno aid of a confederate. There are sev- ready. Having done this we come to the rhance of being detected, on account of eral methods of cheating with aid. The manipulation required. Next to second the brilliancy of his werk and because he one I will show is that by which the most dealing this is the most dificult thing tc has not to rush things like his less slex- deadly results are obtained and is popu- accomplish. The located cards are placed thren. He can afford to wait |A° With nine sharps out of ten. It i3 on the bottom of the pack. It is the Yoa ave ready to be phicksa. termed the double drow. instance sharp’s turn to shuffle. Taking the cards are read heplcea 3 h: he deliberately interleaves each halt the game of poker-to Hin twice In sucession. It is the inter- the method of the gentleman leaving that does the work. He then offers them to be cut. This done the “double handed pass 1Is brought s pass in the hands slmont /oassonpted ] 3 or manipulator can be made from rhavd; inmy twealy. by ability to locate cards. We ejghty-five to one hundred times a min card manipulator Will take for fptance A game of five: yte. “The work can only be dome wit than & dozen, and e o pawke Sit next to good playing cards that are almost new. ¢ all depend ne thing to “win possible to have byt as a new pack of cards is used about e RIP othcr Gard every fourth deal in a first-class club this 3 # 3 s stacle to the sharp. slation i S5 v hn brohid s not A is not an obstacle to t t they be invisible weil. Opel £ You no doubt have often heard or read rs of constani practice. A man the third or fourth des just as soon the expression in police descriptions that > be in good physical condit as the dealer has got the general run of the prisoner was a well-known “short- igl ix pas would mean the cards. We will say that the dealer card man.’” halr of s and his confederatc a _ For the benefit of the uninitiated 1 will s turn to deal. He explain the meaning of the title. It means other six and nine. a sharper who makes a specialty of cheat- the three sixes and ing at games of cards where only two- he sharps who game and be on the finge years' experience I have not met m sit in any kind of a accomplishea st b Ic « t of the second Jde to deal to yourself will either help your hand our opponents’. It must also STACKING a POKER HAND .- / \ MAKING THE = HibiNG THE S CoLs BECK . THE. KING OF cArRDS be accompanied wit ing. The most marking cards as follows 1sed. Euchre, be- -card games, finds ut them on top thirds of the pack are e and of- ing the king of sho being made, most favor in his eves. To cheat at this ringing them ame does not require nearly as much e The sharp first procures two small tin ck to the top of k. 1f his con- dexterity as at whist or poker. The short- boxes, such as you would put ointment e a_pair he makes a full hand card man Is the worst type of blackleg into. ‘He then mg 11l hole in the on nines 2 next man who comes in and usually finds his vietims among the top of the box abo of a dime. With a akes a full on sixes. If the poorer cla; most of his cheating bein: he draws four «lone in saloons. As his customers are anfe good, and as usually an iliiterate class he is not as a and one of the rule particular what kind of work he does, Inside the box s pl derneath wh shaped. The e of tin un- confedel spiral- ¢ x compositio wing ingredier v an who makes two his object being to get the money as Olive oi!, camphor una stearine,” mi pairs. This is not done at every deal, but quickly as possible. with analine of the color of the card about four or five times in an evening's For short-card work a pack of strippers make this composiiion 1y w 2 are usually employed. For euchre the deal of dexteri < hods I have iliustrated are cards are trimmed in such a manner that will _accomp!i 1d doubt the most Up to the two jacks out of the four usually of knowlc of ¢ ¥ 3 ed by the same color can be drawn out at will. be don sharps c uid ! e, but This is accomplished by these two cards The advan owing to the amotint of prominence given heing a trifle wider than the balance of it can be f this description and the fact the pack. When it is the sharp’s turn to on_vour se to be deal all he has to do is to bring the with the sharp two stripped jacks to the middle of the master of se that pack, at the Same time making a crimp v 1 e manufactured —ind their into as shown in the illustration. His opponent the aces and ‘hn &S, N0 matter where the; ining camps and county fairs. will, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, S He In the pack. he can control them when now pass on to the game of cut to it, thus making the two jacks thie it comes to his deal gam one thai ought to be above sus- last cards in the pack. Tt is here the ad- I will now show the methods of the picion. I refer to whist. In America vantage of working without a full pack every day sharp. who also depends upon. there is very little cheating at whist. the comes in, the sharp being able to make manipulation, but not nearly o advanced reason being that it is rarely played for what is termed the bottom deal; this & method as the foregoing chevaller de high stakes. In®Europe the case is dif- sleight {s the easiest of any used by gam- Pindustrie. The work I am about to ex- ferent. In London, Paris and Berlin it blers, and, like second dealing, becomes pose will hold good in almost any game takes the place of poker from the gam- invisible with practice. Some sharps do where there is no game keeper to protect bler's point of view. Thus the sharp is en- not take the trouble or probably have not the players. If there are any wise fish couraged to get in his flne work. The the ability to learn the bottom deal, but sitting in the game the sharp usuaily re- only method by which a cheat can be resort to the extremely dangerous method tires. " Bookmakers and sporting men gen- successfully worked without the aid of a known as the “topmp-lm:' Few persons N erally will not tolerate this work. e confederate is as follows: would be blind to this method. vincible. Havim SHORT HAND AT SEVEN UP. AN