{"id":23200,"date":"2020-07-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=23200"},"modified":"2020-07-13T02:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T07:55:05","slug":"best-titanic-thompson-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/best-titanic-thompson-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Paul Wilson On: The Unsinkable Con Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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 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\nThe Prop King<\/h2>\n\n\n\n