California                    
                                    
                        Did You Know?                    
                                    
                        Gambling                    
                                    
                        Gambling: Shills                    
                                    
                        Games / Races: Poker                    
                                    
                        Gardena--California                    
                                    
                        Quick Facts                    
                            
        
        
        
            Quick Fact – Shill Losses
1952 When Ernest J. Primm owned the Monterey Club, a poker house in Gardena, California (a Los Angeles suburb), he claimed on his state income taxes the losses of his shills, up to $500 ($4,500 today) a…
            