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Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic's Professional Gamblers

Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic's Professional Gamblers

Behe, George

Hardcover

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistoryTrue Crime

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ISBN10: 1803992387
ISBN13: 9781803992389
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

A unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates

During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them.

In spring 1912 three professional gamblers traveled from the U.S. to England for the sole purpose of returning to America on the maiden voyage of Titanic. Kid Homer, Harry Rolmane and Boy Bradley (Harry Homer, Charles Romaine and George Brereton) were grifters with a long history of living on the wrong side of the law, who planned to utilize their skills at the card table to relieve fellow passengers of cash. One swiftly fell under suspicion of being a professional card mechanic, and was excluded from some poker games, but other games continued apace.

This new book, the result of years of research by George Behe, reveals the true identities of these gamblers, their individual backgrounds, the ruses they used, and their ultimate fates after tragedy struck, as well as providing an intriguing insight into a bygone age.

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