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Every day for 25 years Cardano played cards or rolled dice. This did not prevent him from writing 412 different works on a dozen sciences and pseudosciences, and from speculating on such matters as the immortality of the soul and how to forecast the future by a study of warts. ("A woman with a wart upon her left cheek, a little to the left of the dimple, will eventually be poisoned by her husband.") But when the distinguished scholar wrote his Book on Games of Chance, he discussed gambling less as a medical doctor than as one of the most...
...Whip Shot. Cardano knew all about loaded dice and such tricks as the whip shot: "The die is thrown straight with such an impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...
...Exiled. Figueira, a gambler named William Angell, and Bookmakers John and Francis Sullivan sang to a grand jury in return for a promise of leniency from the D.A. Angell told how the mayor, with Figueira's connivance, had raided his competitors, had hushed up a robbery at his dice joint. Angell told of paying off in $500 chunks. Figueira testified that Peirce had shut down bookies who did not deal with the Sullivans, while the Sullivans flourished and prospered...
...double-or-nothing roll, with one die apiece and high man the winner. Smith accepted. He rolled an ace. The gambler made his roll-another ace. Smith rolled again-a three. The gambler rolled a four-and walked out with the $180,000 he had lost at the dice table. The Smiths took it as part of the day's work...
...plot thickens, Randy sickens. When his fever hits 104°, the runaways hole up with a heroin-peddling doctor who shoots Randy full of antibiotics. Randy recovers, but, at 39, he is sure that all of life's dice are loaded; he has little faith in second chances, especially sexy ones. He advises Rowdy to go home to her insurance salesman, which indeed she does, but not before she sees Randy cut down in a hail of bullets...