To make a long story short, there was a level of trust that everyone had with each other, and we treated our customers well, so we had very few incidents or threats of getting narked out, so we just did screening on new players later on. Working in the pawn world for a number of years, I had to deal with a lot of cops/detectives and it was easy to spot a cop - it wasn't as easy to spot an informant. I looked up the laws a few times, and basically they have to see you exchange money for chips AND take a rake. Most people that played were either legit pros, friends of mine, Mike's, Vito's, and if their friends wanted to bring someone we would do some research. Because we aren't in a large city, and pretty much everyone was vouched for, our concern was low, but we still watched out.

As far as clientele, most of it came from the local cardroom or friends that were local in the area that just had a lot of money. It seems like states that prohibit gaming establishments tend to be more proactive in raiding games. For some reason, I have never heard of a game getting raided in Florida. I'm sure you could get these lightly edited and published. Reminds me a lot of King of a Small World, which was a novel drawn directly from the real life in PG Country Maryland in the 90s. I know you mentioned it as potential worry with one new guy in one of the stories, but it does not seem to be a constant concern. You guys don't seem to worry much about getting busted.

But in at least a couple of the states (Maryland and Virginia) we also had to worry about getting busted, usually when an undercover officer or a snitch infiltrated the game and set it up. I've played in a lot of underground games over the years in various states and was involved in running a couple.We had had to worry about managing the book and security from robbery as you describe here.

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