Gambling Anecdotes - Short and Sweet
“Takashi Chiba: Stupid Pachinko” |
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The actual reason? Chiba had resigned under fire, after being widely panned for his handling of the emergency. Rather than rushing to coordinate aid efforts, Chiba, who was visiting a casino at the time, continued to play pachinko pinball slot machines for more than 30 minutes after the earthquake struck!
“Crockford”
William Crockford died following a fit of apoplexy brought on by the poisoning of his prize horse Ratan, a few days before it would likely have won the 1844 Derby. When they learned of his death, Crockford’s gambling friends were greatly perplexed; Crockford also had a heavily backed filly entered for the Oaks, a second race traditionally held on the occasion as the Derby itself. Were his death to become known, the filly would be disqualified. Their solution? They simply propped Crockford’s body up at a window in his house overlooking the racecourse, where, clearly visible to the crowd, it served to discredit any rumors of his untimely demise.“Wild Bill Hickok: Dead Man”
On August 2, 1876, the legendary frontier marshall Wild Bill Hickok entered Saloon #10 (Carl Mann’s saloon) in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Eager to join a poker game, he uncharacteristically took a seat with his back to the door because his companions had already taken seats on the wall and refused to move, good-naturedly ribbing Hickok about his paranoia of assassins.Shortly thereafter, Jack "Crooked Nose" McCall entered the saloon, walked along the bar until he was behind Hickok, drew his Colt .45, and shot Hickok in the head. Hickok’s hand at the time? A pair of aces and a pair of eights - thereafter known, of course, as the "Dead Man’s Hand."
“Back Seat Baby?”
Shortly after David Beckham announced that he would be creating a new line of boys clothing for Marks & Spencer, Blue Square (a British bookmaker) began offering odds of 20-1 that his unborn baby would be named Mark or Spencer.It also offered odds of 1,000-1 that the child would be named... Nightclub Toilet.
“Perfecta?”
Nevada State Senator Zeb Kendall was a well-known figure at California race tracks and was highly respected for his knowledge of horse racing.One day, he returned to his apartment at the St. Francis Hotel to find his wife rather vexed by his tardiness for dinner. To placate her, Kendall opened his satchel and displayed $80,000 worth of gold and bank notes which he had won that afternoon at Bay Meadows Race Track.
Mrs. Kendall response? She took the bag and dumped it out the window onto Powell Street.
These gambling stories courtesy of: Anecdotage.com
