Collectible Items

Casino Chips and Dices are the best casino collectible items. Casino Chips is use for as a betting coins because it has equivalent for the money value while Dices is use for Casino Craps, Sic Bo and Backgammon. Let's discuss about Casino Chips and Dices.






Casino Chips are also known as chips, token, cheques it is a small disc use for as money for betting in casino. Casino chips has lots of usual colors including yellow, red, white and blue. Each casino are made from plastics, clay, ceramix woods and metal . Each token has a value, the smallest value is $1 and the biggest values are: $500, $1000, and $5000.


How to assign the value of chips?



It depends the denomination colors like white is for $1, red is for $5, blue is for $10, green is for $25, and black is for $100. Casino Chips have many designs like Fig. 1.1. Some Casino Chips are very hard find because those chips are rare like in Fig 1.2 and very antique like in Fig 1.3.


One of the reason why those people collecting casino chips because of the diversified designs in chips. These different designs attracts to other people that push to themselves to buy and collect all chips. According to those casino chips collectors when these casino chip becomes rare and old, the value of these chips are become too lucrative. Sometimes those handler are still keeping their old and rare chips to continuing increase their value and keeping those collected casino chips to the boxes for a long time.


Dice




Dice are polyhedral object but usually is a cubic with a different symbols and numbers. Dice is usually 6 sided in official gambling like Craps, Backgammon, Chinchirorin and Sic Bo. But did you know that there are some different shape of dices like tetrahedron (a four sided dice fig. 2.1), cube(fig. 2.2), octahedron(8 sided dice fig 2.3), dodecahedron(12 sided dice fig. 2.4) and icosahedron(20 sided dice fig. 2.5). Each Dice is made from different material like ankle bone, ivory, wood, metal and stones.


But most of people doesn't know these dice are also collectible besides of casino chips. Some dice are rare and expensive so it is rather to collect than use for casino games. According to dice collector he bought cheap price dice to use for playing in gambling and non-gambling games while expensive dices are for collection and he will regret if those expensive dice are use for games. Some collectible dice has different symbols and different sizes like in fig. 3.1.


Street Gambling


Street Gambling is the worst gambling game for me, why? Because there are not in establishment, lots of fraud and cheats and of course is illegal. Street Gambling are haven't seen gambling games in Casino Establishment, some of these are not popular. One of the reason of those player play in Street Gambling is because they can't afford their money to play at any Casino Establishment. Casino Establishment are too much expensive but 100% sure you are secure from fraud game activities like cheating. Street Gambling doesn't use casino chips for betting instead money. Another one is no dealer unlike in Casino Establishment has dealer.

What are Gambling games that doesn't have in Street Gambling? My answer is Roulette, because it is set-up by roulette table, roulette layout, roulette balls, wheel checks or wheel chips roulette wheels. This game is not applicable in Street Gambling it is too heavy, wasting time to set-up and can't maintain all important equipment in Roulette.


What are Gambling games that doesn't have in Casino Establishment? These are Toss Coin and Shell Game, because those two are to fraudable games. Can trick and cheat those two gambling game. Toss Coin can use other extra coin like extra coin like Head in two side or Tail, another one tosser are too fast his hand to change the other coin. Same to Shell Game, host use three shells then put a pea in one of those three shells while play should guess which one of those three has pea. Sometimes host doesn't put a pea in any of those three shells.


Most of Popular Casino are can play in Street Gambling like Bingo. Poker and Mahjong. Bingo is a popular Casino Games and you can see in anywhere establishment, same in street but don't worry this game doesn't make fraud. You should beware for Poker and Mahjong because they have a fraud or cheat activities. Those player can accomplice for cheating activities like exchanging a card or tiles during that game and frauding his victim(opponent).


Here is some tips I to give you about this:

-You should stay away from those people who invite you to play street gambling.

-Don't trust to any people who operate or playing the street gambling.

-If you victim of street gambling fraud you should report in any nearest police station.

-Report those people who operates in street gambling.

-The most important you shouldn't trust to all people arounds you.


Whether you support or oppose the idea of giving Americans the freedom on street gambling, the activity is flourishing in an uncontrolled marketplace, sending billions in revenue out of the U.S. economy, overseas and underground. 

The Legandary Texan: Amarillio Slim


A facetious gambler, raconteur, a poker ambassador and an old school relic, Thomas Austin Preston Jr. also known as “Amarillio Slim”, was once noted a wise man that you can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once. He spent his life proving this to be true, taking on and beating the opposition at every form of wagering known to man, and a few that Amarillo Slim devised on the spot. Slim was one of the original road warriors of poker, forming a deadly partnership along with Sailor Roberts and Doyle Brunson. They would pool their resources, help one another out when possible, and travel the country shearing the sheep.

The "poker trio" started with all sorts of gambling and travelled from town to town to make dollars or two. In fact, if there was anything that would give them an edge over their opponents, they played poker over and over again. As a poker player, Amarillo Slim rides on the edge of out and out excellence, winning 5 WSOP bracelets, including the main event in 1972, forever leaving his mark in poker history. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.

He is also well known for the crazy "proposition" bets he's won - including playing one-pocket pool with Minnesota Fats using a broom handle, golf with Evil Knievel using a carpenter's hammer, ping-pong with Bobby Riggs using an iron skillet, beating Larry Flynt at poker for $2,000,000, and beating Willie Nelson for $300,000 playing dominoes. He has also played poker with presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and drug lords Pablo Escobar and Jimmy Chagra.

Amarillo Slim is much more than just a poker player though, he is a Texas treasure, a great story teller, and a character of the world. Amarillo Slim Preston is the poker icon and a hero known the world over as a man who will bet on just about anything.

The Controversy

Being one of the greatest profiles in history of poker, Amarillo Slim finally decided to settle down with gambling. In March 2003 a grand jury indicted on three charges of indecency with his grand daughter.

Thereafter, the poker legend endured an embarrassing legal ordeal, saw his family ripped apart and watched helplessly as a whirlwind media circus blew his reputation away like West Texas prairie dust. He was fined $4,000, given two years probation and ordered to undergo counseling.

This may have prompted Amarillo's gambling in public to an end, seeing as a lot of players met him with disgust after the tragic event.

The Downfall

While other less deserving poker players got rich and famous in recent years, Slim missed the poker boom entirely. Many of his old friends ignored him. A planned Hollywood movie about Amarillio Slim's life that will be portayed by Nicolas Cage, was dropped.

Amarillio Slim's dexterity to peddle himself in a genuinely likeable manner contributed boundlessly to pokers acceptance in the modern poker world and brought flare to a game that previously was thought of as seedy and repulsive.

Poker is a game of people, It's not the hand I hold, it's the people that I play with. - Amarillio Slim