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...year before. This year's deficit, wailed the managers, will be over 50%. To illustrate the parlous state of affairs the managers pointed to Nicholas Zographos, "Nicky the Greek." greatest gambler in Europe. M. Zographos is head of the Greek gambling syndicate which operates the casinos' baccarat banks. Last week as was his custom Nicky the Greek sat behind the shoe at Deauville. Normally the baccarat banker at Deauville is playing against $10,000 to $20,000 on each card. Last week the great M. Zographos sat at a table where the total stakes amounted to just...
...Touquet. We sat next to each other playing baccarat. I won and won. He lost and lost. He couldn't figure it out. Finally he asked me to show...
...Poincare) who have applied their minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck...
...Edward of Wales, out of no less than $7,000,000. To Department of Justice sleuths it seemed credible that H. R. H. was sold stock at Le Touquet in a nonextant oil well. Le Touquet croupiers remembered last week that Mr. Factor and H. R. H. have played baccarat at the same table- which proves nothing. In Chicago last week Mr. Factor got away from his luxurious apartment just before the Secret Service men arrived. But they nabbed in Philadelphia an Englishman called Harry Geen, said to be Factor's swindling lieutenant...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...