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Titanic Thompson is one of the most fascinating\ncharacters in hustler history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his reputation, Thompson was not what I would call a con artist<\/a>. Instead, he was a gambler with a knack for manipulating both the odds and his fellow gamblers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the definition of the word \u201chustler\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson stories have become gambling lore and\nif you\u2019ve ever heard the name, chances are it was in the context of these\nstories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, I\u2019m going to share a couple of\nmy favourites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prop King<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Proposition bets<\/a> are common amongst gamblers eager to find action in any situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While playing poker<\/a>, two players might bet on the colour of the fifth card dealt or whether an ace will appear at an odd number. Side bets like these happen all the time but are mundane, uninteresting wagers compared to a classic proposition bet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titanic Thompson would seemingly bet on anything\nfrom the turn of a card to the number of watermelons in a farmer\u2019s truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the early half of the twentieth century\ntill his death in 1974, Thompson was a legendary figure amongst America\u2019s\ngambling fraternity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A successful poker player, he could be found in some of the biggest games in the country and was a close confidant of several nefarious figures, including Arnold Rothstein<\/a>, who was murdered after a card game in New York that Thompson had organised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Arnold
Arnold Rothstein was a notorious mobster and gambler who allegedly conspired to fix the 1919 World Series. [Image: YouTube]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thompson claimed that he never cheated but could\nread cards and people with equal accuracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, he was a formidable player and\nmixed with a lot of well-heeled suckers eager to bet on all sorts of crazy\nsuggestions – and Thompson was happy to oblige.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between long sessions at the card table,\nThompson would offer seemingly impossible wagers that fellow gamblers just\ncouldn\u2019t resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting for a cab on a busy day, Thompson would\nbet he could hail one down in under a minute despite the traffic being at a\nstandstill and the only taxi nearby being taken. With a whistle, that same taxi\npulled over and the passenger got out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson\u2019s confederate was in the taxi to make\nsure it was in the right place at the right time and all Titanic needed to do\nwas convince the suckers to take his bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing a farmer\u2019s truck filled with watermelons, Ti would offer to buy the farmer\u2019s entire stock so long as he counted exactly how many he had. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In return, Thompson would give them all back after the farmer drove past Thompson\u2019s hotel at an agreed time between poker sessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know it, Titanic Thompson and half\na dozen exhausted gamblers would be leaving the hotel at that exact time?\nThompson would spot the truck then offer a wager to guess how many watermelons\nwere in the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking along a beach one day, Thompson spotted\na tent with a pair of large feet projecting from inside. He convinced his friends\nto bet on the height of the owner of those feet and won easily by betting lower\nthan his suckers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man in the tent was less than four feet tall\nbut had enormous feet and had been paid by Ti to pitch a long tent, stick his\nfeet out and wait for Thompson to \u201chappen by\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gambling Maestro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not all of Thompson\u2019s scams were entirely\nset-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His greatest proposition bets were based on\nfeats of skill that seemed impossible when described at the outset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson had a knack for throwing things with strength and accuracy. He could sail a playing card further than Ricky Jay<\/a> on his best day and fill a hat with 52 cards from across a pool hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All he needed was someone dumb enough to bet or\nrich enough to pay the price to see him do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say there wasn\u2019t a little artifice\nto some of Titanic\u2019s more outlandish challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was famous for throwing peanuts or walnuts\nover houses or for great distances. No matter how good an arm his opponent had,\nTi could throw further and higher thanks to the lead-filled nuts he had had\nmade for the purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, with a little sleight of hand; any walnut,\npeanut or acorn could be thrown like a rock!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a hotel lobby with high ceilings, Thompson\nlearned how to throw needles so they would stick in the ceiling and would bet\nfellow gamblers that he could throw 10 needles in the ceiling and skewer a fly\nin the process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secret was simple: Ti paid a friend to place the pre-skewered fly, stuck into the ceiling, earlier in the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the height of the ceiling, no one could see the pin that was already there before Ti threw 10 upwards (he could actually get them into the ceiling and would fake one of the throws to compensate for the pre-placed needle).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To verify Thompson\u2019s claim, one of the bettors had to retrieve a high stepladder to count all 10 needles were in the ceiling and confirm that one of them had indeed caught a fly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many great stories like these that there’s a whole book dedicated to them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Titanic
A must-read for anyone interested in hustlers. [Image: Twitter\/paulbrownUK]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hustling From Pool To Golf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the \u201cgood old days\u201d of high-stakes poker\nwaned, partly thanks to Thompson\u2019s reputation and notoriety after the Rothstein\naffair, Ti turned to hustling pool and golf to make a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the pool hall, he was unmatched and could\nline suckers up for more hours than there were in a day thanks to a litany of\nseemingly crazy handicaps he would offer. He would even play with a broomstick,\nthough had the broom specially made and weighted for that purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a golfer, he was considered to be amongst the best players in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ti once commented that he refused to turn pro because, even if he won the US Open, he couldn\u2019t stand the drop in money compared to hustling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Double
Thompson could easily have been a pro golfer but he preferred the thrill of a hustler’s life. [Image: Illustration by Ed Acuna for Golf Digest]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thompson lived out his days as a much-sought\nafter golf partner by gamblers eager to have a story to tell about losing to\nthe legendary hustler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And lose they did, since Ti could rope anyone\ninto taking a much bigger bet than originally intended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After narrowly beating several strong players in\nthe morning, he would offer to play again in the afternoon with left-handed\nclubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the quality of his right-handed game, the players would quickly accept, confident they could easily beat him when playing with the wrong hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he\u2019d already beaten them with the wrong hand since Thompson was actually a left-handed player and had taught himself how to play right-handed to pull bigger bets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As golfer Ben Hogan said of Ti: \u201cOnly a\nfool would play him at a game he suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Best Of It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thompson\u2019s strategy was always to have \u201cthe best\nof it\u201d by hook or by crook, but he also gained a reputation that drew gamblers\nwho wanted to take part in (and lose) his proposition bets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These suckers never had a hope of beating him;\nall they wanted was a story to tell at their next home game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether by developing an unusual skill,\norchestrating a situation or concealing secret knowledge, Thompson had an\nunbeatable knack for winning almost any proposition he made – but not always. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few times in his career, Thompson\u2019s wagers would backfire<\/a> with hilarious and expensive consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on that, another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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