The table game is based on Three Card Monte. It’s a famous con act, where a dealer places three cards down (often on a flipped-over bucket) and designates one as the “money” card.

I n “Top Dog/Underdog” life is a hustle — a three-card-monte game, a macabre arcade illusion, a bit of petty larceny here and there. But these little cons are just part and parcel of a ...