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Posted By: Joe

Scott:

I in no way meant to imply anything untoward about Ron Oser's position at Mastro...I've no idea where that came from, perhaps I'm a lousy writer. I was just writing a review of a book about card doctoring. The villain of the book is William Mastro and as I was writing I remembered traipsing through the aisles of Fort Washington years ago and seeing these "restored" cards being sold by, as I recall, Ron Oser, who happens to be with Mastro these days. I was just wondering what has become of those cards. After I posted, I did a few minutes of looking and see that some cards ARE being sold as altered on eBay and elsewhere. But it's not a stretch to think that the "restored" tag has vanished from more than a couple of these cards.

Peter:

Yes, Lifson is absolutely the good guy and clearly the meal ticket source for the authors. The split between Mastro and Lifson is given short shrift in the book...unless you read very closely between the lines.