As the game progresses, the Comte will teach you a wide variety of real-world card cheating techniques, including sleight-of-hand, shuffle manipulation, card counting and secret signals.
The player assumes the role of a mute serving boy in a lowly tavern in the southern French town of Pau. One day, an apparently well-to-do patron, the Comte de Saint-Germain, catches the young man’s eye and draws him into helping with running a scam on a game of cards.