High Roller Bucks the Tiger in Tonopah

Abe F. Brown, Casino History, Ed Kennedy, Gambling, Gambling History, Gambling: Loss, Games / Races, Games / Races: Faro, Gaming History, George Wingfield, It Really Happened, Nevada, Tonopah Club (Tonopah, NV), Tonopah--Nevada, United StatesLeave a comment

1907 A faro game with a $50 limit (at least $1,200 today) was underway in the Tonopah Club on a Thursday night in February. Colonel Abe F. Brown, one of the three proprietors of this mining camp saloon in Central Nevada, was playing. A wealthy man, he’d accumulated his assets via gambling enterprises and playing…

Quick Fact – Rabid Anti-Gamblers

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1907 William Howard Taft (not yet the U.S. president) was in Manila, the Philippines on Secretary of War duties. His wife, Helen, or “Nellie,“ who’d accompanied him on the trip, was at a Saturday morning bridge whist party as the guest of honor. Apparently, the ladies were doing some betting on the games. During the fête,…