And since I started riding Via, I've won at Bunco twice.
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A military spouse might play Bunco with a U.S. Navy Public Affairs Officer.
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For Joan Gomez, 78, the best part of public transportation is winning at her favorite dice game, Bunco.
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Last year, a group of 12 from my neighborhood started getting together and playing Bunco, taking turns hosting.
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From the direct-mail bunco artists, it was a natural progression to conservative media selling ads to the most outlandish dream peddlers and conspiracy-mongers.
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They were saved for special occasions, like camping trips or, sometimes, the nights my dad was in charge of dinner while my mom was out with other Army wives playing Bunco, a dice game that was popular back then.
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After I got married and moved to suburban Tennessee in my mid-20s, I discovered that anywhere women gathered —yoga classes, PTA meetings, Bible studies, mom groups, Bunco leagues, book clubs — there was a party invite or sales pitch lurking.
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She screamed in women's faces at multiple bunco parties; accidentally peed on a castmate's bed; and did her signature sloppy "whoop it up" partying everywhere from Bali to Ireland to Puerto Vallarta, finding unique ways to get in blow-out fights all along the way.
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During the 1920s and Prohibition, Bunco was re-popularized as a gambling game, often associated with a speakeasy. Law-enforcement groups raiding these parlors came to be known as "Bunco squads". Bunco as a family game saw a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s.Bunco history World Bunco Association official site.
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He demands he receive $40,000 collateral. Breezy panics, and claims to Bunco that he has no large checking account. Courtney pretends that he will write the check and take the money from Breezy later. When Bunco, Courtney and Sniffy realize that Cookie and Breezy found a chest of real riches, Bunco and Sniffy begin a scheme to rob them of the jewels.
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Bunco fundraisers have become increasingly popular over the years, earning large sums for a wide variety of charities. Large groups of bunco players have come together to support their favorite charities by paying an entry fee into the game, holding silent auctions, and by selling raffle tickets; with all proceeds from the event donated to the cause.Buncogameshop.com According to The Washington Post, Bunco is sometimes referred to as the housewife's drinking game.
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According to the World Bunco Association the game had seen a resurgence in popularity in the United States in the early 21st century; in 2006, it was claimed that during the previous year "over 59 million women have played Bunco and over 27 million play regularly". As it is played today, bunco is a social dice game involving 100% luck and no skill (there are no decisions to be made), scoring and a simple set of rules. Members of a Bunco club take turns hosting, providing snacks, refreshments and the tables to set up the games. The host/hostess may also provide a door prize.
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He was called "L.A.'s Ultimate Bunco Artist" by Los Angeles magazine.L.A.'s Ultimate Bunco Artist Los Angeles magazine April 1981 In 1983, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in a loan fraud- swindle. In 1987, he was arrested again for defrauding a clothing manufacturer out of $903,000.
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Bunco (also Bunko or Bonko) is a parlour game generally played with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A Bunco is achieved when a person rolls three-of-a-kind and all three numbers match the round number.
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Bunco on Facebook or other social networks usually differs from traditional land based bunco games. Players may join and play online with people from all over the world. Players may be able to join or leave at any time rather than having to plan with a group in advance. Games may feature 'power-ups' which accelerate player's advancement within the game or give players an advantage scoring points.
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After taking Bunco and Sniffy hostage, Breezy tells Maureen and the General his true identity. The swindlers are arrested, and Breezy returns to the Navy base. Cookie tells everyone the news that Bunco was a federal fugitive, and for capturing him, he and Breezy have won a $10,000 reward, which they use to repay their friends. Later, Cookie drives Breezy and Maureen to become married, and they give a ride to a hitchhiking Courtney along the way.
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Bunco Busters is the 65th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 21, 1955, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal International.
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Players can also collect, buy and share virtual items with friends on the Facebook platform. This adds to the community element which is otherwise not experienced in other forms of land-based bunco.
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Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis (1850 – March 22, 1902) was an American criminal and swindler. He was regarded as one of the top confidence and bunco men in the United States during the late 19th century whose success was matched only by contemporaries such as Tom O'Brien and Charles P. Miller, sharing the title of "King of the Bunco Men" with both men at various times in his career.Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld.
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Bunco was originally a confidence game similar to three card monte.Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present - 1890Our Rival, the Rascal - 1897 It originated in 19th-century England where it was known as "eight dice cloth".Professional Criminals of America - 1886 It was imported to San Francisco as a gambling activity in 1855, where it gave its name to gambling parlors, or "Bunco parlors", and more generally to any swindle. After the Civil War the game evolved to a popular parlor game.
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Breezy overhears their discussion and confides in Courtney, who then inserts some sleeping powder in Duke chocolate bars and gives them to the black guards. Sniffy becomes suspicious, so Courtney knocks him out, and then Breezy, Cookie, Maureen and Courtney escape via plane. When the plane is airborne, Sniffy and Bunco reveal themselves from their hiding spots and demand that Breezy and Cookie jump from the plane. Breezy starts fighting with Bunco, however, in the commotion, the treasure chest falls out of the plane becoming lost.
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Edward "Big Ed" Burns was an American 19th century confidence man and crime boss. He was born around 1842 in Buffalo, New York.Inter Ocean (Chicago), 09/07/1881, p. 8. In 1861 he began a bunco career in Chicago, Illinois.
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233) Former NYPD police detective Thomas F. Byrnes, referred to O'Brien as "King of the Bunco Men" in his book Professional Criminals of America (1886) and claimed he had been arrested "in almost every city of the United States" and had spent at least twenty years in prison during his criminal career."O'Brien A Convict For Life.; Exchanging Pistol Shots an American Way of Settling Disputes Maitre Demange Said". _New York Times._ 15 Mar 1896 He was perhaps most infamous as a "bunco steerer" and was alleged to have stolen around $500,000 in his criminal dealings.
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Unknown to them, Courtney uses the money to pay for the boat and his hotel bill. After they arrive at the island which supposedly contains the treasure, Breezy and Cookie are introduced to "Professor Bisbee," (Paul Bryar) a con artist whose real name is Bunco, who is in cahoots with Courtney and has buried fake treasure on the island. Breezy and Cookie then dig up a chest of jewels, and that night, Breezy becomes engaged to Maureen. Going with the scheme, Bunco tells the duo to give him half interest in the proceeds from the jewels as they were discovered on his island.
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Bunco Squad is a 1950 American crime film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and written by George Callahan. The film stars Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley and Elisabeth Risdon. The film was released on September 1, 1950, by RKO Pictures.
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The first Bunco World Championship was held in 2006, airing on the Oxygen Network and sponsored by Procter & Gamble's anti-heartburn medicine Prilosec OTC, benefiting the National Breast Cancer Foundation. In October 2008, P&G; discontinued their association with the Championship after three years.
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Smith, pp. 460–61. A vigilance committee calling themselves the Committee of 101 demanded relief via the federal government.Smith, p. 470. When that proved too slow, they took matters into their own hands and posted handbills around Skagway ordering the bunco men to leave the town or face the consequences.
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618) Waddell was also involved in schemes with other prominent confidence men, including attempts to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, before his murder by noted bunco artist Tom O'Brien in 1895.Asbury, Herbert. The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. (pg.
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Philip S. Van Cise (October 25, 1884 - December 8, 1969), was a U.S. Army colonel, crimebusting district attorney, and private practice lawyer in Denver, Colorado. He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book Fighting the Underworld.
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His friends responded that he had died in an apartment house on Manhattan's West Side and that his funeral had been held three days after his death. The name on the coffin, they claimed, was unrelated to Lewis so he could be buried anonymously."Hungry Joe" Reported Dead.; But The Famous Bunco Man Has Been Dead Before.
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Tumble Weed Greed is a Woody Woodpecker cartoon that was released in theaters on June 1, 1969. It is notable for being the first appearance of Buzz Buzzard in a cartoon since 1955 Bunco Busters. He also would appear in the following cartoon. In addition to Grace Stafford, who provides Woody's voice, Dal McKennon provided Buzz's voice.
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Kelly, later called "The King of the Crimps", received his "Bunko" nickname in 1885Spider Johnson says October 1891 by providing a crewman that turned out to be a cigar store Indian. Kelly made $50 on the deal.Stewart Holbrook, "Bunco Kelly, King of the Crimps" in Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1992.
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Along with directing, she continued to write for the screen and theater. She authored several songs lyrics; even appearing on an LP. As a co- writer and director she worked on an original comedy What Are Neighbors For?, premiering at the Little Oscar Theater. She is also a collaborating with Jeri Greene on the original play, Bunco.
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In May 1888, Lewis was released after serving three years. Lewis was identified eight months later in the NYPD's "Rogue's Gallery" by William J. Bansemer, a wealthy and retired Baltimore merchant, who lost $5,000 to him in a bunco game. He was arrested in New York on December 1, 1888, and extradited to Baltimore to stand trial."Victim of "Hungry Joe"".
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Charles P. Miller (c. 1851 – November 7, 1881) was an American gambler, confidence man and swindler. He was popularly known as "King of the Bunco Men", at times sharing that title with fellow tricksters Tom O'Brien and Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis, and ran one of the largest banco operations in the United States during the late 19th century.Hyde, Stephen and Geno Zanetti, ed.
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The prospect of a 'bargain' or 'something for nothing' can be very tempting. Email fraud, as with other 'bunco schemes,' usually targets naive individuals who put their confidence in schemes to get rich quickly. These include 'too good to be true' investments or offers to sell popular items at 'impossibly low' prices. Many people have lost their life savings due to fraud.
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Logan scoffed at the detective's claim and remarked "Why sir, that man is one of my best friends. You have made a terrible mistake here". Lewis excused himself after borrowing $500 from him and disappeared. He similarly befriended Charles Francis Adams and lured the elderly man into a Boston Common bunco game where he and his friends swindled him out of several thousand dollars.
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It was described that at Huntington, "bunco men, crap shooters, all kinds of gamblers...gathered from all parts of the country--Greenville, Vicksburg, Leland, etc.", and that "on levee workers' paydays...a crowd of 200 men and women quickly gathered for gambling and drinking", after which "fights commenced". Huntington was flooded in 1890, 1897, and 1903. Although Huntington no longer exists, several nearby geographic features retain its name.
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Van Cise, p. 173-209. Although newspapers across the country carried the particulars of the unusual sting, the Denver Post at first declined to print Blonger's name. Co-publisher Harry Tammen was a close friend of Blonger's, but his partner Fred Bonfils ordered the paper's editors to end the embargo and support Van Cise and the prosecution of the "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring".Van Cise, p. 212-13.
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Beginning on the second Friday in October, the Fall Festival and Trade Days showcases games, activities and numerous entertainment and sports events. These include a 5K Run/Walk, Arts & Crafts Booths, a BQ Cook-Off, Balloon Lift Off, Beauty Pageant, Bunco Tournament, Co-ed Softball Tournament, Dessert Contest, Dunking Booth, Face Painting, Food Vendors, a Great Pumpkin Treasure Hunt, Pet Costume Contest, Pie Eating Contest, Sidewalk Sales, and the Tyson/Calvin Brown Basketball Tournament.
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A zero-player game or no-player game is a simulation game that has no sentient players. In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players."Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society", Rodney P. Carlisle, SAGE Publications. The term can also refer to games of pure chance, such as bunco, in which participants cannot take any action or make any decision that meaningfully alters the outcome.
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MacBride was a retired bunco cop who once arrested Ryan, a con man. After Ryan's release from prison, the two men opened a detective agency in Los Angeles. Their speciality involves the use of confidence tricks to trap criminals into revealing evidence of their guilt. Assisting them is another reformed con man, restaurant owner Malcolm Argos (Charlie Callas), and Maggie Philbin (Sharon Gless), Mac and Pete's naive-but-competent receptionist and assistant.
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Unlike the earlier organization that was active in the rural South, KKK chapters developed in urban areas of the Midwest and West, including Denver, and into Idaho and Oregon. Corruption and crime also developed in Denver.Baker, p. 51-55 print of Denver, 1898 Between 1880 and 1895 the city underwent a huge rise in corruption, as crime bosses, such as Soapy Smith, worked side by side with elected officials and the police to control elections, gambling, and bunco gangs.
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The National Police Gazette coined the term "confidence game" a few weeks after Houston first used the name "confidence man". A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle, or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as marks, suckers, stooges, mugs, rubes, or gulls (from the word gullible). When accomplices are employed, they are known as shills.
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Buzz proved to be a more popular foil for Woody than Wally Walrus, who appeared less frequently in Woody cartoons after this film. Buzz would appear with the famous woodpecker steadily until 1955's Bunco Busters, when he was replaced by Dapper Denver Dooley. Dooley would stay on board until 1959's The Tee Bird; Buzz would only reappear ten years after Dooley's final appearance, in 1969's Tumble Weed Greed. Lionel Stander provided the voice of Buzz Buzzard for his earliest appearances.
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Later in Philadelphia, he represented himself to Samuel J. Randall as the son of banker A.J. Drexel. He was apparently so convincing that, when the actual son of Drexel called on the house by chance, Ramsden believed the young man was the impostor and threw him out of his home. He and another noted bunco man called Western Sam spent an entire summer in Long Branch, New Jersey where they conned over $100,000 from residents."Hungry Joe" To Be Released.
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Sehlbrede added that "he wanted the men ... alive if possible, but dead if necessary."Daily Alaskan Extra November 7, 1898 In the meantime, two separate vigilante groups, the Merchants Committee and the Citizens Committee, began to call for immediate action to rid the town of the bunco men. Several hundred people attended the latter organization's meeting at Sylvester Hall, too many for the facility to accommodate. It was also rumored that members of the Soap Gang had infiltrated the hall to cause disruption.
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Captain Haddock from the Bunco Squad (Dal McKennon) serves as narrator, telling the viewing audience about "The Case of the Gullible Woodpecker." Woody (Grace Stafford) inherits a fortune and Con-man Buzz Buzzard (McKennon) decides to use every trick he can to swindle him out of his new wealth (including using a phony treasure map). Woody gets it back in the end when Buzz crashes through the ceiling and lands in a filing cabinet in the office of Captain Haddock, who "closes the file" on the case.
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As well as featuring tricks and illusions for pure entertainment, he also included a regular segment (the "Bunco Booth") in which he exposed the confidence tricks of street charlatans. He also replicated the kind of results that have impressed researchers of the paranormal and parapsychologists in a segment called Under Laboratory Conditions, thereby demonstrating his scepticism about claims made in these fields. Daniels starred in his own stage show, It's Magic, at the Prince of Wales Theatre from 10 December 1980 until 6 February 1982.
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When play has started, players take turns rolling three dice trying to score points. Points are usually awarded as such: 21 points if all three dice match the current round number (a "Bunco"); 5 points are awarded if all three dice match each other, but do not match the current round number (This is called a “Bonko”). Finally, 1 point may be awarded for each die matching the current round number. If points are scored, the player gets to roll again, continuing to add to their score.
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He also expanded his operations into the "green goods" or sawdust swindle and, between the two ventures, he reportedly made $250,000 within ten years. Waddell eventually moved his operations to Paris, France, working in partnership with Tom O'Brien, but was murdered by him there in an argument over shares of a bunco swindle on March 27, 1895. He had been shot several times by O'Brien, twice in the back and chest as well as suffering wounds to his head and heart, at the Northern Railway Station."Inquiry in Waddell's Case Finished".
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Character actor Lionel Stander provided his voice in the 1940s with Dallas McKennon taking over the role in the 1950s. Buzz would continue to appear in Woody Woodpecker shorts until the mid 1950s, and was eventually replaced as the woodpecker's rival himself by Dapper Denver Dooley (also voiced by McKennon) and later Gabby Gator. Bunco Busters would be Buzz Buzzard's final appearance in a Woody theatrical cartoon until Vicious Viking in 1967, in a chilly willy cartoon. Though Buzz continued to make appearances in Lantz comic books and on other licensed merchandise.
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About 1866, he strangled a man to death and was sentenced to nine years in Joliet, an Illinois prison.Inter Ocean, 06/14/1875, p. 5. He returned to Chicago after being released in 1875 where he was seriously wounded by a bullet in the back by a man purported to be a friend.Inter Ocean, 06/14/1875, p. 5. And 06/22/1875, p. 4. In April 1877, he was reported as the leader of a bunco gang on Chicago's south side where he used his gang to influence votes for political candidates.
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All but one of the stories in this collection formed the basis for episodes of the 1962-69 TV series, The Saint. "The Careful Terrorist" appeared as the third episode of the first season, airing on 18 October 1962. "The Bunco Artists" and "The Good Medicine" appeared in season two, on 19 December 1963 and 6 February 1964 respectively. "The Unescapable Word" was retitled to the more grammatically correct "The Inescapable Word" and aired on 28 January 1965 during season 3, followed by "The Happy Suicide" on 11 March.
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As an adult, she returned to motion pictures 15 years later in 1934 – at the request of director Henry King – to appear in his film Carolina, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore. This movie also featured future child star Shirley Temple in a minor role. Over the next 16 years, Osborne worked as a film extra, also serving as a stand-in for actresses such as Ginger Rogers, Deanna Durbin, and Betty Hutton. After appearing in more than a dozen films, she made her last on-screen appearance in Bunco Squad (1950), starring Robert Sterling and Joan Dixon.
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LaVey's view of the desire to join groups and perform group rituals is given, with advice on what to watch out for (in a Satanic bunco tip sheet). Recommendations on how to meet other Satanists, start groups, name grottos, and execute rituals are given. LaVey encourages Satanists to "make pioneering discoveries and achievements" as a way of forcing "objective authorities... to see and acknowledge the quality, productivity and superiority of Satanic thought." Four appendices are included: In "Letters: 'Many Are Called...'" a collection of sample letters the CoS has received is presented; "Satanic Music: That Old Black Magic"; "Satanic Cinema: Down These Mean Streets"; and "Further Reading: The Devil's Bookshelf".
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His stage trademark was to utter three nonsense words, "Sim Sala Bim" (taken from the lyrics of a Danish children's song), during his performances to acknowledge applause. He can be seen using these words in the Swedish 1931 feature Dantes mysterier (Dante's Mysteries) and in the 1942 Laurel and Hardy comedy A-Haunting We Will Go. He also appeared as himself in the 1950 film Bunco Squad, and played a character role in Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach (1952). In 1940 he produced and starred the Broadway revue Sim Sala Bim on the Morosco Theatre. With television, the public stayed home more often, and the world of variety theatre suffered drastically.
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Claiming to be a manufacturer of women's undergarments in Baltimore, he then used the introduction to lure him to a bunco game. Lewis explained that he was preparing to leave for Baltimore but offered Ramsden to join him as he went to purchase tickets at a nearby railroad station. Ramsden agreed and the two walked together down Broadway while Lewis gave him a guided tour and pointing out businesses and giving exaggerated accounts of business dealing with various New York business firms. They eventually arrived at a building on Canal Street and proceeded to an office of the second floor where Lewis "bought" a ticket from a young man.
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As his gang branched out into bigger and more complicated "big cons" that attracted a more well-to- do clientele, Lou Blonger found he no longer needed his saloon and the relatively small take it provided from card and dice games. Eventually he moved into headquarters in the American National Bank building on Seventeenth Street and styled himself as a mining magnate. A crucial moment in the development of the bunco gang was Blonger's partnership in 1904 with Adolph W. Duff, who had operated his own gang of confidence men in Colorado Springs before being run out of town by the police.Van Cise, p. 10.
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Lou Blonger (May 13, 1849 – April 20, 1924), born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Blonger's gang set up rooms resembling stock exchanges and betting parlors that were used by several teams to run "big cons". The goal of the con was to convince tourists to put up large sums of cash in order to secure delivery of stock profits or winning bets.
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The crimps were well positioned politically to protect their lucrative trade. The keepers of boardinghouses for sailors supplied men on election day to go from one polling place to another, "voting early and often" for the candidate who would vote in their interest. In San Francisco, men such as Joseph "Frenchy" Franklin and George Lewis, long-time crimps, were elected to the California state legislature, an ideal spot to assure that no legislation was passed that would have a negative impact on their business. Some examples included Jim "Shanghai" Kelly and Johnny "Shanghai Chicken" Devine of San Francisco, and Joseph "Bunco" Kelly of Portland.
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In Harry Houdini's The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Expose of Successful Criminals (1906), one of O'Brien's typical banco swindles was described as a popular variation of the "real Simon Pure Bunco Game": O'Brien was able to take a Michigan farmer for $21,000 using this ploy, perhaps his most successful effort, but was eventually arrested for the 1889 theft of $10,000 in bonds from Albany businessman Rufus W. Peck in December 1891. Arrested in England, he was extradited back to the U.S. and, on March 25, 1892, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Clinton Prison. He was defended by William F. Howe.
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He made an independent Western, The Sundowners (1950) and did Bunco Squad (1951) at RKO. He was appearing on Broadway in The Grammercy Ghost when he formed a relationship with actress/singer Anne Jeffreys. Sterling appeared on such shows as The Ford Theatre Hour, Showtime, U.S.A., The Clock, The Web (starring in the episode "Homecoming"), Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre, Celanese Theatre, Lights Out (one episode with Grace Kelly), Betty Crocker Star Matinee (an episode with Audrey Hepburn), Suspense, The Gulf Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents, Studio One in Hollywood (an adaptation of The Ambassadors), and Climax!. Sterling had an excellent part as Steve Baker, opposite Ava Gardner as Julie, in the hit MGM 1951 film version of Show Boat.
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Fearing that the Denver Police would tip off the gang once the first suspect was taken to jail, Van Cise detained the gang members in the basement of the First Universalist Church, where he was a member, until the sweep was complete. In Colorado's longest and most expensive trial to that time, 20 con men, including Lou Blonger, was convicted and sent to prison, effectively busting the "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring." As a result of a campaign promise to organized labor and other interests, Governor William E. Sweet signed an executive order on January 29, 1923, cutting off funding to the Rangers. The Colorado Rangers were officially disbanded by the Colorado General Assembly on April 1, 1927.
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Upon his return to Denver, Smith opened new businesses which served as fronts for his many short cons. One of which involved allegedly discounted railroad tickets, in which potential purchasers were told the ticket agent was out of the office, but were offered an even larger discount by playing any of several rigged games. Smith's power had grown to the point that he admitted to the press he was a con man and saw nothing wrong with it, when he told a reporter that "I consider bunco steering more honorable than the life led by the average politician."The Road, 29 February 1896 In 1894, Colorado's newly- elected governor Davis Hanson Waite fired three Denver officials as part of anti-corruption reforms.
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He arrested five men who were wanted for various confidence schemes around the country, and this case gave Nygaard a taste for "out-conning the con". He became knowledgeable in the intricacies of sweetheart swindles, insurance fraud, and psychic fraud while "bouncing between investigative squads and federal assignments with the DEA and FBI". In 2007, Nygaard joined the National Association of Bunco Investigators, a trade organization for members of law enforcement and other related fields who specialize in the identification, apprehension, and prosecution of non-traditional organized crime suspects. Through their periodic reports, Nygaard expanded his knowledge of the world of confidence schemes, which include home-improvement scams, three card monte games, pigeon drops, and an ever-expanding array of cons.
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Early uses of the phrase refer to it as a catch-phrase among gamblers. In an 1879 discussion of gambling in Chicago, an "old-timer" is quoted as saying, "[G]oodness knows how they live, it’s mighty hard times with the most of them; in the season they make a bit on base ball, or on the races, and then, you know, 'there’s a sucker born every minute', and rigid city legislation drives the hard-up gambler, who would be a decent one of the kind, to turn skin-dealer and sure-thing player." The use of quotation marks indicates that it must already have been an established catch- phrase. The phrase appears in print in the 1885 biography of confidence man Hungry Joe, The Life of Hungry Joe, King of the Bunco Men.
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Films in which she appeared included Absolute Quiet, Idiot's Delight, Living in a Big Way, This Gun for Hire, Great Guy, The Emperor's Candlesticks, King of Chinatown, Woman in the Night, The Judgement Book, Trigger Tom, Along Came Love, Bunco Squad, That's My Story, and The Accusing Finger. On Broadway, she had the roles of Mayme Speer in Mother Sings (1935), Hilda Zanhiser in Mid- West (1936), Gladys Cay in Aries Is Rising (1939, Mazie Stoner in Blind Alley (1940), Dean Baxter in School for Brides (1944), and Mona Gilbert in Make Yourself at Home (1945). She also acted in summer stock theatre and on stage in local productions in the Los Angeles area. Hayes appeared on television in episodes of The Lineup, The Doctor and Boston Blackie.
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Board games often use dice for a randomization element, and thus each roll of the dice has a profound impact on the outcome of the game, however dice games are differentiated in that the dice do not determine the success or failure of some other element of the game; they instead are the central indicator of the person's standing in the game. Popular dice games include Yahtzee, Farkle, Bunco, Liar's dice/Perudo, and Poker dice. As dice are, by their very nature, designed to produce apparently random numbers, these games usually involve a high degree of luck, which can be directed to some extent by the player through more strategic elements of play and through tenets of probability theory. Such games are thus popular as gambling games; the game of Craps is perhaps the most famous example, though Liar's dice and Poker dice were originally conceived of as gambling games.
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