 | ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 |  |
DOUBLING THE STAKES.
A dashing young man of large fortune, about the year 1820, lost at a subscription house at the West End, £80,000. The winner was a person of high rank. The young man, however, by doubling the stakes, not only recovered his losses, but in his turn gained considerably of his antagonist.
| ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF
GAMESTERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | |