Saturday, May 9, 2009

A Swindle, of Sorts... pt. 5

It doesn't require a lot to take off the game. Bums can steal chips off the game when inexperienced players or operators aren't watching. Semi-experienced players can past-post a bet or two when the operators' guards are down. But these types of petit larceny are really the work of sophomores. They're foolish. They're so easily caught. They don't really rank up there with that certain class of criminal gang whose activities score tens of thousands of dollars at a time, and whose activities remain quite often undetected, even by the bosses themselves.

This is a "once-upon-a-time" story about one of those clever criminal gangs that worked the dice table take-downs, and of one guy they didn't expect to meet one day.

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