Containing a complete disclosure of the secrets of the art, as practiced by professional gamblers.
The author only identifies themselves as 'An Adept'. It covers a wide range of gambling scams, and crooked card games, including card table artifice. The information is relevant today and describes the multivarious ways marks are separated from their money.
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The Game of Faro
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Side Strippers
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The Capper
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The Chopping Deal
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Expose of the Dealing Box
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The Screw Box
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Sanding the Cards
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Rakes
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Hollows and Rounds
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Fifty Threes
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The Cat Hop
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Snaking Cards
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How Cards are Snaked
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Roulette
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Chucker Luck, or Sweat Cloth
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Spout
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Poker, or Bluff
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Stamped Cards
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Vingt-un, or Twenty-one
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Seven Up, or All Fours
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The Long Hand of Seven Up
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Three Card Monte
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Race Courses, Mysteries of the Turf, &c
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The Arm Strap
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The Convex, or Dog eat Dog
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The Broker’s Game
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The Bogus Check Game
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The Five Aces
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The Ring Game
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Dropping the Pigeon, or Heeling
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Watch Stuffing
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Three Card Monte on the Ohio River
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The Game of Euchre or Diamond Cut Diamond
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The Five Aces and the Nigger Stealer
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Three Card Monte on Lake Ontario and the Canada Counterfeiter
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The Strap Game on Lake Champlain. Betting for Oxen
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A Description of the Strap Game, and how it is Played
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The Ball and Safe Game in Cleveland
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The Game of French Monte in Chicago
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The Strap Game in Memphis
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Confidence Women
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The Thimble Game
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Mock Auctions, or Peter Funks