Spotting a Cold Deck  Another of A.D. Livingston's stories
revolves around a cold-deck cheater who got too ambitious. Not
only was the new deck he put into the game stacked to give him a
great hand, but it gave all the other players great hands, too
-- great enough that they'd bet their stack, but not quite great
enough to beat the cheat. Everyone was suspicious off the bat
(the reason it's called cold-decking is because a deck in play
for awhile gets warm from constant handling). Suspicions grew,
and when the showdown came around, the cheater was not-too-
gently asked if he had another deck of cards in his pocket.
Looking around nervously, he admitted to having three or four.
Livingston reports that the cheat was ushered away from that
game without injury, but that he was shot and injured at another
poker game a few weeks later.  Stopping a Cheat