California
Casino History
Crimes / Violence / Punishments: Cheating / Fleecing: Holdouts
Gambler (Operators/Players): Card Sharps
Gambling History
Games / Races: Poker
Gaming History
It Really Happened
P.J. Kepplinger
San Francisco--California
United States
The World's Cleverest, Most Successful Card Cheating Apparatus
1888 It was the “very finest … the world has ever seen … a masterpiece,” wrote John Nevil Maskelyne in his 1894 book, Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at…