Gamblers and those who ran gambling houses in the Old West used a host of methods from marked cards to gaffed devises to separate gamblers from their money.
One of the most ingenious devises was the Kepplinger Holdout (also one of the most sought after by collectors). P. J. Kepplinger, a gambler from San Francisco, invented the device which consisted of wires, pulleys, metal rods, metal slides, flexible tubes and clamps. This devise worked well, to well once greed took over. Kepplinger's fellow gamblers figured something was up when he won hand after hand. The other gamblers finally had all they could take and jumped Kepplinger looking for his "cheating device". What they found amazed them. Instead of giving Kepplinger the usual cheater rough-up they convinced him to make each one of them a holdout and as they say, The Rest is History!
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