Download or read book Phantoms of the Card Table written by David Britland and published by Oldcastle Books. This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, Walter Irving Scott bamboozled a room full of New York's finest card manipulators by dealing himself winning poker hands from a shuffled deck. His skill was extraordinary and he was soon dubbed the Phantom of the Card Table. Sixty years later Gary Osborne, a magician from England, decided to track him down and, to his surprise, found him living in a retirement home in Rhode Island. The two became friends and Scott expressed an interest in publishing his closely kept secrets. This is the true story behind this elusive trickster.