***SPOILERS*** Private investigator Mike Barnett goes undercover as a big time Texas, with a phony Texas accent, oil man to crack a ring of hoodlums taking advantage of a children's charity who's having gambling -On Monday Wednesdays & Fridays- nights to pay for a new wing to it's dilapidated and about to be condemned orphanage. It's one of the rings hot shot gamblers "Handsome Ritchie" Rich who's not only winning tens of thousands on the crap tables but also skimming off the top, for as much as 90% of his ill gotten winnings, from his boss Thorton who's sponsoring the gambling hall.
With Barnett joining the game then switches the loaded dice that's being used by "Handsome Ritchie", who's already has won ten rolls in a row, with a pair of his own, that are extra loaded, dice that has him pick up where "Handsome Ritchis" left off taking in a cool $57,000.00 by the time he finally broke the bank! Finding out that Ritchie is skimming off the top and that Barnett isn't who he says he is, a big time Texas oil man, Thorton has them both kidnapped with "Handsome Ritchie" worked over and brought to his office for advanced interrogation or-in just plain English-torture!
***SPOILERS*** Barnett who saw what was coming had the police alerted to raid the place and catch Thorton red handed on a kidnapping not gambling charge that had him and his #1 flunky "The Stickman" busted before they can as much as muss up his hair. As for "Handsoem Ritchie" he in the end was saved by the bell or police raid from being offed by Thorton for ripping off his gambling operation by being put in protective custody. And as the then person who came up with the idea for gambling nights in order to save her orphanage Mrs. Forbes she ends up getting as a charitable contribution the $57,000.00 in winnings that Barnett won for her orphanage. And in that it want for a good cause it didn't make any difference, by cheating at the crap table, in just how he got it!