Ida Summers: The Vegas Cheat Who Palmed Cards for a Decade

Ida Summers worked the pit at half a dozen Vegas clubs in the 1960s and 70s. Colleagues called her the Vegas Vixen; the eye-in-the-sky called her a headache. Summers’s technique — palming and swapping face cards mid-shoe — earned her hundreds of thousands of dollars before a joint casino-FBI operation ended her run in 1973…