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Fate Deals a Hand - The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic's Professional Gamblers (Hardcover)
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Fate Deals a Hand - The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic's Professional Gamblers (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such
a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners
that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring
1912 three professional gamblers travelled from the USA to England
for the sole purpose of returning to America on the maiden voyage
of Titanic. "Kid" Homer, "Harry" Rolmane and "Boy" Bradley (Harry
Homer, Charles Romaine and George Brereton) were grifters with a
long history of living on the wrong side of the law, who planned to
utilize their skills at the card table to relieve fellow passengers
of cash. One swiftly fell under suspicion of being a professional
"card mechanic", and was excluded from some poker games, but other
games continued apace. This new book, the result of years of
research by George Behe, reveals the true identities of these
gamblers, their individual backgrounds, the ruses they used, and
their ultimate fates after tragedy struck, as well as providing an
intriguing insight into a bygone age.
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