Authors:David Britland, Gazzo,
Publisher: Running Press
Keywords: card, sharp, confessions, table, phantoms
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1568582994
ISBN-13: 9781568582993

Walter Irving Scott may have been the greatest card shark ever. In 1930, Scott bamboozled a room full of New York’s finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck, one of his many tricks. He liked to say that he "cheated the cheats." His skill with cards was extraordinary and he soon became known as "The Phantom of the Card Table." That’s why Gazzo, a magician from England, decided to track Scott down some 60 years later. The two became friends and Scott openly discussed his work with a view to its finally being published. "I don’t care w