Editing Titanic Thompson (section)

==Gambling style and favorite bets==
Later, when Thompson had honed his skills, he became a "road gambler", a traveling hustler who became an underground legend by winning at all manner of propositions, many of them tricky if not outright fraudulent. Among his favorites were: betting he could throw a walnut over a building (he had weighted the hollowed shell with lead beforehand), throwing a large room key into its lock, and moving a road mileage sign before betting that the listed distance to the town was in error. Thompson once bet that he could drive a golf ball 500 yards, using a hickory-shafted club, at a time when an expert player's drive was just over 200 yards. He won by waiting until winter and driving the ball onto a frozen lake, where it bounced past the required distance on the ice.<ref name=cook/><ref>{{cite book |first=Jon |last=Bradshaw |title=Fast Company |publisher=Vintage |year=1987 |isbn =978-0394756189}}</ref>

Thompson's partners in "the hustling game" included pool player [[Rudolf Wanderone|Minnesota Fats]], who considered Titanic a genius, "the greatest action man of all time".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies: The Uncrowned Champion of Pocket Billiards Describes His Game and How It's Played |first1=Minnesota |last1=Fats |author-link=Rudolf Wanderone |first2=Tom |last2=Fox |publisher=Lyons Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-1592287017}}</ref>

Thompson's one weakness, as he admitted, was betting on horse racing, where he lost millions of dollars during his life in failed bets.<ref name=cook/>