A sharpie is a fraudster in card games. In a figurative sense, this term can be used in relation to a dishonest person in any business.
Etymology
Schuler is a word that comes from the Czech “deceiver”. In a similar way they called the organizer of gambling (a word in this sense is used in colloquial speech).
Suit
A card sharpie can use “trimmed” (trimmed) decks, speckled cards, and other tricks. During a dishonest game, a false shuffle, exchange, false trimming, raising, palming can also be used (in the latter case, we are talking about hiding cards in a certain way).
There are several ways to shuffle. One of the most popular is “from one hand to another”. This method is common in Europe. Corrugated shuffle is also popular. This approach is most widely used in Australia, Canada and America.
Bones
A sharpie is also a person who cheats not only in cards, but also in other gambling games. For example, in the case of a dice game, there are two main tricks for cheating. The first is a controlled throw. It is a tactic that allows one or several bones to resemble in such a way that the probability of a certain combination falling out increases in a given order. A sharpie is a person who bypasses the law of chance and bases the game strictly on the principles of physics. He places the body in a certain way relative to the surface of the table, thus throwing the right number of points.
The second method of fraud should include the substitution of dice. For this technique, the sharpie prepares a “special” pair of bones in advance and hides them. It is his own set and is used by him when throwing. This type of substitution has dozens of variations. Prepared bones may have a modified number of points or shape.