Masterson drew up bunco charges against Holliday. Wyatt intervened on Holliday's behalf and persuaded Bat Masterson to fabricate bunco charges against Holliday. Gambling flourished and bunco artists exploited every chance to separate miners from their hard-earned gold. MacBride was a retired bunco cop who once arrested Ryan, a con man. Street gambling variations performed by conmen we known as Bunco Booths. After taking Bunco and Sniffy hostage, Breezy tells Maureen and the General his true identity. Law-enforcement groups raiding these parlors came to be known as "Bunco squads". Popular dice games include "Yahtzee", Farkle, Bunco, Liar's dice/Perudo, and Poker dice. Breezy panics, and claims to Bunco that he has no large checking account. Bunco on Facebook or other social networks usually differs from traditional land based bunco games. Bunco as a family game saw a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s. Bunco Busters is the 64th animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker" series. Bunco was originally a confidence game similar to three card monte. He made an independent Western, "The Sundowners" (1950) and did "Bunco Squad" (1951) at RKO.