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the dealer Regular user las vegas 188 Posts |
Hey all, was going through my storage and found a couple decks of gemaco playing cards that says "del webb's MINT casino hotel las vegas"(purple and white box)...i searched ebay and it sells for 20 dollars a deck. I opened a pack(the other is sealed)...they spread well and seem like nice cards, but they have really rough edges and are hard to faro. are they really worth 20 dollars a deck? I found information on the casino itself, but if anyone has info on the deck specifically, that would be great.
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Dave V Inner circle Las Vegas, NV 4824 Posts |
They're probably worth that to collectors, but I've found Gemaco cards to be rather cheap compared to other brands, so I'm not surprised you can't do things like faros with them. A quick Google search will tell you more about the Casino than I can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mint_Las_Vegas
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the dealer Regular user las vegas 188 Posts |
Ok thanks
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The Dowser Special user Canada 763 Posts |
Gemaco casino cards vary widely in quality. Some are poor, while some of their brands are of very high quality. You can get cards like those and also better quality, un-cancelled casino cards for about a dollar a deck from Kardwell international if you buy by the gross. They do however sell for much more on eBay. They are not worth $20 though and if anyone buys them from you for that price your are lucky.
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Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
The Mint was a great place downtown, always had good bands playing there on weekends. It was a good table for table job on craps while it lasted, sucked when the Horseshoe bought it.
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
The cards and the Casino itself have a nice literary backstory; a special place in the history of contemporary American literature…
Hunter S. Thompson…Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Great image here: http://hstbooks.org/2008/08/21/
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Cagliostro Inner circle 2478 Posts |
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On 2012-06-08 03:40, Tony45 wrote: Tony, seems like you have dealt in and/or experienced a number of “older” Vegas joints. Actually The Mint was one of the better downtown joints in its day. I have some good stories about The Mint, but unfortunately the are not for publication. Just curious, the Boulder Club (which dealt 21, Craps, Big 6, Faro, Pan, Keno and Poker), located at 188 Freemont street, opened in 1929 and burned down in 1960. Now if you say you dealt there, I would really be impressed because even I wasn’t around at that time. |
Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
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On 2012-06-10 14:13, Cagliostro wrote: I was thinking you were around way before that, I was thinking you used to run Block 16 ! I worked at the Fremont for a year and change and used to go in the Mint quite a bit as I had a few friends in there. I got a few stories also, but they arent for publication either. |
Cagliostro Inner circle 2478 Posts |
Quote: The Fremont sits on the property where the Boulder Club was before it burned down, so in a sense you indirectly dealt at the Boulder Club.
On 2012-06-10 14:55, Tony45 wrote: Wow, you really are an old-timer. LOL By the way, I played the count quite a bit at the Fremont (as well the Golden Nugget, Mint and Horseshoe), in the early 60s (before most had any clue that the game could be beaten by counting), so if you were dealing 21 there at the time, we may have met aross the table. |
Tony45 Veteran user 384 Posts |
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On 2012-06-10 15:03, Cagliostro wrote: I will test you now : Do you remember the Carousel club ? It was on Fremont Street in the 60,s. A guy I work with broke in there, said they sweated something awful. A lot of guys claim they used hustlers on the 21 games down there a lot back then, how true it is I have no idea. I do have a ton of pics of older places on Fremont, its amazing that there were like 4 places that shared the street where the Nugget sits now. They all looked more colorful back then also, probably more fun than today. |
Cagliostro Inner circle 2478 Posts |
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On 2012-06-11 03:45, Tony45 wrote: Never played there and only vaguely remember the place. Believe it was between the Pioneer Club and Golden Gate, located on the opposite side of the street from the Las Vegas Club. Think they had girls outside with funny costumes to attract walker–byes into the joint, but not sure about that. The big money plays were mostly at the strip casinos using a credit line. Downtown was more of a heat score and the Golden Nugget, Freemont and Mint were the only places I played or considered playing in to try out new variations and techniques with the count. In fact, hustlers and casino cheats would perfect or try out new moves downtown before they took them out to the strip. That was standard in those days and not doubt still is. I liked Vegas much more in the 60s, 70s and into the 80s. More of an adult atmosphere and if you were with a junket, you were treated like a king. Nowadays you can get run over by a baby carriage in the casino. More fabulous today in some respects but lacks the adult atmosphere that Vegas was famous for back then. The chicks, the Damon Runyon characters, mob guys, top notch entertainers, rounders, hustlers, bozos, old time thieves, new time thieves – a unique era and time that will never happen again – and fortunately I was there through it all. WOW! |
RS1963 Inner circle 2734 Posts |
I am a native Nevadan, I was born and raised in Henderson, I missed too miss the Old Vegas that I knew from the 70's- 80's things were quite different back then.
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