7. About a century ago, many American companies that made legitimate playing cards and poker chips also sold a variety of "ADVANTAGE TOOLS" devices to help cheaters. These included "card pricks," "poker rings," "punches" or "peggers" to mark a card by creating a subtle indentation, as well as "holdout machines" that allowed cheaters to pull cards out of the deck and hold them until needed -- either up their sleeves or under the table.
Getting caught, of course, might prove to be somewhat unhealthy for the cheater.
8. ROBERT KENNEDY, who would later become a senator and U.S. Attorney General admired for his support of civil rights and his crackdown on the mob, left his Rhode Island boarding school at age 16 after becoming involved in a cheating scandal. His roommate and other witnesses said he passed around a stolen English exam, but it is not clear whether he left school on his own or was expelled.
Nothing Up My Sleeve. --Cooter
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