Chapter 8-2

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Then there were the hawks. These were interlocutors whose seeming-random, spontaneous exchanges with customers might entice one or two to up the ante—to play the games with better payouts but steeper odds. They were meant to look like ordinary customers, but they always gave themselves away. They"d sit down for a hand or two, tell Jack he was pretty good, say they"d just come over from the torqueball table where someone just won three quarter mil. Even those games of seeming random chance—like torqueball or roulette—had nothing random about them. Magnetized cushions and micrograv nodes might subtly redirect a ball into a hole or deflect a die from landing a particular number. Those mechanized machinations weren"t used overtly, since a casino might be fined if caught, but enforcement was

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