FORTUNE "GOES WEST."
IMPERTURBABLE GAMBLER,
PARIS, August 18. Onlookers in the chemin de fer room at the Deauville Casino became almost hysterical watching the operations of a British gambler believed to have gone there from Quebec. Beginning at midnight the man lost £3200 in two hours. He continued to play, but his luck never changed and he lost £9600 in a single hand and £80,000 in the course of the evening. The spectators were amazed at the gambler's almost unbelievable "mpertarbability.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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81FORTUNE "GOES WEST." Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 7
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