After seeing David Mamet's House of Games its pretty evident that this conman's hamartia was actually that he never got his confidence back. He always talked about how he doesn't really do much else other than lend people his confidence in order to con them. However, I feel like he lent his confidence to this woman and she took it and ran. He was lending her his confidence (making her think he trusted her, acting like he let down his guard, helping her enjoy life more through adenture) but she never gives it back. She eventually caught on to him because by relinquishing his confidence he also got comfortable because she seemed so easy to con. He got overly confident and didn't pay mind to her.
She in turn uses his own confidence against him when they meet up at the end of the movie and he's so confident that she won't do anything he even says "What? Are you gonna shoot me right here and risk your career?". She shoots him syaing she wasn't there according to evidence and this is sort of where his own trade kills him. He taught her to con and she eventually got the best of him, even though he was trying to do the opposite.
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