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In the late 1950s, my family particularly enjoyed watching the TV show “Maverick,” starring James Garner (a native Oklahoman) on Sunday evenings. In the show, Garner played a light-hearted professional poker player who had several antagonists, one of whom was a mischievous woman gambler by the name of Samantha Crawford.

“Sam” always managed to get the best of “Bret” (Garner’s character), but in each case it would be by “slickering” him into the most ingenious “get rich” schemes imaginable – which of course, he could never resist. The stories were always physically harmless, but financially dev...