I got this old car playing book
published in 1866 I think you'd be
interested in sweet is it teaching about
having a poker face that's pretty good
this book not in the best condition but
it's an old book I think it was just for
the home use people wanting to learn the
different card games I'm hoping to get
1,500 and the least amount would be
1,000 so where'd you get the book from
won in a poker game so let me get this
right you're playing a poker game with
your buddy mm-hmm you make a raise and
he can't cover with chips so you say how
about that old poker book yeah that's
how it went
I like your style he said it was
published when in 1866 the long whist
dumby or three handed whist five-card
cribbage it's got a lot of games I've
never heard of man straight poker Draw
Poker never heard of whiskey poker but I
have heard of stud poker all right so it
does have some poker in there this is a
really cool book I think a book like
this belongs here in Vegas town like
this was built on card plan yes it was
that's why I brought it here Rick always
tells me to buy things from the early
days of gambling and this book is
practically ancient it might be falling
apart a little but I might go drop a $20
bill and pick this thing up for myself
how much do you want to sell it for
1,500
fifteen hundred man I was thinking
twenty thirty bucks
I looked online I found one similar and
they were asking twenty-five you sure
there wasn't a decimal point after that
five no there was and I looked over it
again and again um
not saying I don't believe you man but
that's a lot of money for a book on card
rules but it is pretty old I got my book
expert in the back and she's going over
a few other things so I'd like her to
come take a look at this if you don't
have any objection to that I welcome it
I'd like to know more about the book all
right cool I'm very happy that the book
experts here I'm ready to prove him
wrong and walk out with some money
well Rebecca sorry to pull you away from
the dungeon with Rick but here's the
rule book I was telling you about I'm in
the back I'm looking at a bunch of books
for Rick and then Chum calls me out who
wants me to look at another book these
guys are all business can't we just go
out and get a cup of coffee so much to
ask what do we have here book published
in 1866 about different card games okay
where'd you get it won it in a poker
game you want a card book in a poker
game yes I did all right well let's take
a look at it then this is just a great
example of one of those how-to books
that they have in 19th century these
things were really popular because there
wasn't a great educational system so
then you get all these how-to books how
to be a gentleman how to cook how to
clean how to play cards is a book like
this actually collectible you know it's
not a first edition Huckleberry Finn but
there are people who really love
collecting gambling books so there's a
market for it the thing that's
interesting about this book in
particular is that there weren't
actually any books on the rules of poker
until 1858 that's documented so this one
at 1866 is kind of a big deal and there
are some other things going on with it
that might be interesting to a collector
Las Vegas is the perfect market for this
because you're going to have people who
are really excited about gambling and
you have professional poker players
coming here all the time they'd love
something like this
so he wants 1500 bucks for this beat-up
old dusty bug
well book like this you expect to be
beat up it's gonna be heavily used I
mean that being said what I would place
this book at if I were to give it a
price I would say mm maybe a little bit
more $2,000 are you guys taking shots in
the back room Wow something he got a
winner here oh yeah all right well thank
you yep pleasure Chum was really
surprised about how much this book could
go for but there's a whole genre of
collecting gambling books so there's a
market for it so how much do you want to
get for it said 2,000 how about 1,800
I'm not gonna go that high my boss would
kill me if I bought a book for $1,800
and made $200 on it and if it's sat here
for a year there's no way I'd keep my
job I'm looking more like about 1,200
that's too low it'd be an easy sell
it's not as easy as you think I think it
is you're in Vegas this was first Tom
Sawyer I could put this in this case and
it'll be gone tomorrow but it's a
specialized book on gambling so give me
a more realistic number that I could
work with man 1,600
if you can come down this a little bit
more maybe 1350 you know I could
definitely make a deal with you make it
14 you can go write it up
I think I'm gonna have to leave it on
the table with you
1375 and you can go write it up
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I'm not gonna beat you up over $25
that's a deal
lucky for me I got a good deal on the
poker book now I just got to make sure
it's people doesn't eat it for lunch
you