New Deals

November, 1974

I hate to brag, but back in my single days, I was one of the most feared men with a deck of cards in the country. "Jacks-or-Better" Jim I was known as, the scourge of every nickel-quarter game in the Connecticut Valley, the undisputed king of dormitory lowball and the man who, singlehandedly, broke the bank of my sister, Betty, in the Sunday-night table-stakes games where as many as 100 pennies would change hands on a single deal. Here, then, are the ten secrets of my success:1. If the...