You have often seen a lot of poker players playing with a lot of
checks stacked up in front of them and a few bills or greenbacks
spread out in front of them, between checks and themselves. A player
having his checks in this manner needs watching, for it is easy to
slide a full hand or four of a kind under those bills whenever an
opportunity occurs. Whenever a good fat pot appears he can use this
hand which he has under the bills by simply putting his hand on top
of the bills and turning them over, which brings the good hand on top
and poor ones under the bills. He always makes a practice of laying
his cards down on the bills, and other players see it at different
times and will think nothing of it. The only way to detect this is by
missing the five cards out of the pack, and one has to be a expert
to miss five cards out of fifty-two without counting them, and after
playing a good hand in this way he must get rid of the deal hand,
which is under the bills, in order to get ready to collect another
hand for the next play. The principal thing about this work is to do
it at the right time and with the right people.