Dealing with Cheats: Illustrated Methods of Cardsharps, Dice Hustlers, and Other Gambling Swindlers

Dealing with Cheats: Illustrated Methods of Cardsharps, Dice Hustlers, and Other Gambling Swindlers by Livingston, A. D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780397009862.

If a sucker is born every minute, 525,600 are brought into the world every year, plus 1,440 in leap year. To keep you from being one of them, A. D. Livingston shows you how to recognize and deal with cheats, and offers the most complete, detailed, and up-to-date description of the techniques of cheating at gambling to be found in one volume. Whether your game is auction schafkopf or hard-nosed stud poker, your dream to roll a quick six in a game of craps or beat the roulette wheel, if you are uninformed you are susceptible to hustlers and con artists, who have hundreds of ways to turn *your* money into *their* money. Livingston knows all the artful dodges and classic frauds, and illustrates, in a superb collection of revealing photographs, the ones you are likely to encounter.