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 | ||