Suckerbets

SuckerbetsThere is a spot in Guys and Dolls, distilled from vintage Damon Runyon, in which Sky Masterson tells Nathan Detroit the secret of his success:"When I was a young man about to go out into the world, my father says to me a very valuable thing. He says to me like this: 'One of these days in your travels a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack o...