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The Perfect Setup

... kicked me out of bed. I tried to find other work, but stock brokers are not the best liked people in good times. When people have lost their shirts recently, they don’t want to hire or work with one those “greedy bastards” who caused all their problems. Soon, my only friends were Dave the bartender and Maury, a local barfly who for some reason decided to befriend me. Actually it was Maury who gave me the idea. He was a card sharp and was always doing bar bet card tricks. I think he made his living running a couple of poker games here and there, but you don’t ask that kind of thing at the bar. One day he got my attention when he began talking about what he called “the perfect setup.” “The problem with most people,” Maury began, “is that they think that the perfect setup in a card game is to have the perfect hand.” He sipped his beer and continued, “That won’t get you squat! What good is the perfect hand if everybody folds against you? The perfect setup is when you have the perfect hand and the other person also thinks that they have the perfect hand. That’s when you take their gazuubahs.” I had no idea what the hell a “gazuubah” was, but I got the idea. Maury also showed me how to win “pin money” with a little low-level cheating. “You don’t have to win all the time to win at poker,” he would say. “You only have to win more than the other guy, and to do that you only have to control two of the cards.” Maury’s big game was 5-card-stud with jokers wild. “That’s the game to ...

... play,” he said. “Everybody thinks it’s almost impossible to cheat at, but it’s one of the easiest to fix. And here is all you need.” He held up a small spray can and said. “This spray makes a card extra slick. You can’t tell it by feel, but even in a new deck, if you tap the deck sideways just a little as you pick it up, it will almost always split at that card.” He set the spray on the bar and said, “Fifty bucks.” He took another sip of his beer as I got out my billfold. Then he added, “The other thing you’ll need to make it work on a regular basis is a sealing machine. You can get those at most places that sell to retail stores.” He smiled. “Most people trust a new deck. There’s nothing that pulls a sucker in like pealing the cellophane off what they think is a factory deck. Even more so if it’s a box of decks. Two wrappers are no more difficult to seal than one.” “Here’s what you do,” he continued, handing me the can of slick spray. “You slick the jokers on their face side. Then when you tap the deck there’s always a joker on the bottom of the portion you are holding as you deal. A simple bottom deal and you have a joker in the hole. That’s enough of an edge to win a couple of big hands each night.” “But what if you want to really clean someone out?” I asked. “Then you’re talking about doing a setup,” he answered. “For that, you prepackage your winning hands and use a false shuffle and reverse cut.” It must have been obvious from my facial expression that he had totally lost me ...