Back in the day, you could see prominent ads in supermarket tabloids and even in the daily papers for scam schemes like this one.
Then, like now, people wanted a system to beat the odds and to get rich quick in sin city Vegas.
Your first clue should have been his address.
In Longview, Texas, it used to be hard to buy a six pack of beer. And the only gambling taking place was in some remote gambling shack by invitation only and you could get your alcoholic beverages there as well. Cards and Dice and beer and burgers.
BACCARAT???????
IN EAST TEXAS??????
If I was a master of a method to get rich at the casinos, I would be in a luxury yacht in a slip at Monaco or Cannes and not in some house trailer under the Pine Trees!
Look like a good old boy done slicked hisself one of them there city folk.
Something weirf about those Pine Trees...LOL