BTW, can anyone who has this book answer me this question please?
On page 93-94ish it talks about how Kid and Bristol played the Two Strangers sting. It clear as day talked about how Kid would play low level sets and win against the locals, get to know them a bit, so they would back him when Bristol (the "stranger") walked in. It also says that Kid backed off enough to let Bristol win and then later they would "gleefully get the hell out of town".
Very next paragraph it says that Kid was having none of it, would NEVER dump a game, had a moral set of rules, and wouldn't be able to live with himself if he lied like that.
Makes me wonder which way it was and how much leeway the author had in writing the book.