Topic: Historical Street Gambling Game (Read 642 times)

I don't know any stories like that but yours reminded me of a question I was wondering about: why aren't casinos making the bets in favor of the player at first? They could then turn on this house edge thing and probability, but I am pretty sure that they would profit from it more than they'd lose. Would it be considered as cheating? I mean, if the casino is at first helping one to win and then just playing fair, I don't think anyone could accuse it. And even if people knew about that, they'd probably not be able to resist the temptation to keep playing.

Yes exactly it was all about
Sometimes casino guy was alone
People were winning at beginning and he was screaming
Oh I Am  Mad i Am Giving Money Away
Than more people were coming and serious gambling begin
Very old skill game but much more  honest than online cheating

Is this the three card monte? I Have been studying it for quite some time when I have been bored when not doing anything. I have seen it, and it's quite amusing how quickly the dealer has changed hands. It is a con game from what I have read on the history about it.

The scenario is that there are a lot of people that would be surrounding the dealer guy then waits for someone, who is a newbie, to join the commotion. After that, the dealer invites the newbie to participate and then lets him win, like in your story. Then after getting greedy, the sleight of hand will occur. Losing everything.

That's what I have thought of when reading the topic. Awesome.

I haven't seen 3 card monte played in my street. But I have seen it countless times in Youtube and I must say that those con artist are really good. Quick hands plus some people colluding as well. You think you already know where the correct card is, but unfortunately, the sleight of hands happens so quick, in a blink of an eye that you didn't notice anything strange.

Its can probably compare to a '3 move chess' playing played here. You are given just 3 moves to 'check mate' the opponent and bets on the side. But this is just a scam as a 3 card monte.

I want to share with you story about street gambling game from before WW2 war
It was a way to make money for smart guys from uptown area
Smart guys without incomes stream
Game was played on bazaar or straight on the street
It was very simple game.Three cards two of them were black and one was red red was wining one black were losing
Guy was presenting cards to gambler than he was mixing cards gambler was choosing one card trying to find red one

At first look it was very easy to find red one
And it was like that because casino  guy was allowing gambler to find red one
But he  knew gambling psychology and  he knew that gambler after first easy win will like to win more
So gambler was wining first attempt second or even third and was betting  bigger and bigger money
At some stage casino guy was mixing cards that way that it was very hard to find red card and gambler was losing
Finally smart guy was winner and gambler lost all money what he had in his pocket together with watch

But sometimes some smart guys was coming to play.He knew very well how it works
So he was showing himself like a newbie and when game entered  in final stage he was
the winner over casino guy


Do you know any historical popular game from your country your maybe forgotten already
maybe somebody from old generation told you about some old gambling game

Russian roulette was popular but there are not living gambler who can share story about that game

Or maybe you know some real unknown stories how gambler was able to win against cheating casino etc

I have same experiences with these kind of stuff on where you do bet on a certain spider on whose gonna win.In my childhood i did enjoy and i can say that this is way more fair than on current gambling/casino games nowadays, there are lots of them actually and its being mentioned above about rats and doves which way more entertaining to watch and make some bets since outcomes cant really be rigged
or manipulated and which all depends on the certain capacity of the thing you have bet out.

Is this the three card monte? I Have been studying it for quite some time when I have been bored when not doing anything. I have seen it, and it's quite amusing how quickly the dealer has changed hands. It is a con game from what I have read on the history about it.

The scenario is that there are a lot of people that would be surrounding the dealer guy then waits for someone, who is a newbie, to join the commotion. After that, the dealer invites the newbie to participate and then lets him win, like in your story. Then after getting greedy, the sleight of hand will occur. Losing everything.

That's what I have thought of when reading the topic. Awesome.

In my country there are several famous street gambling that I knew , the most popular is the domino, bunch of people will play secretly and most of the time the bet will getting higher and higher and sometime can lead to a fighting, the other most famous gambling is the sport side betting, usually one of the sport club will invite other sport club to compete and then both of the club will come to agreement how much will the bet and each of the member will participate in that bet and winner bring the money home

Did you notice one thing common in every game related suggestion posted above? None of the games played in real life can be cheated are publicly verifiable without the digital systems. Life was better back then I guess.

That was mentioned in some middle schools' textbook that this cockfighting in the Philippines was totally a Spanish influenced.

I guess there's no way people can cheat in that way of gambling since everyone is watching around. And everyone has a chance to check the coin from its texture, how it looks and etc. And the tosser only needs to, of course, toss the coin until there's a result of 3 tails or 3 heads.

Yeah, probably what I witnessed is that the tosser really master his craft, that's why he also wins and bettors thinks he is cheating or something. This is really a old school street gambling games in the Philippines. Maybe time has changed what coins are being used today, but still the rules of the game is still in the same.

Don't know really what it called as a whole in Philippines but my local called it that way.

I guess there's no way people can cheat in that way of gambling since everyone is watching around. And everyone has a chance to check the coin from its texture, how it looks and etc. And the tosser only needs to, of course, toss the coin until there's a result of 3 tails or 3 heads.

Though it takes time but people used to play it as long there's a smooth hard surface where the coin can land after a toss without any obstacle. So it can be played in street road as well.

Isn't it called "Kara Krus" or "cara y cruz"?

Haven't played that game, but I used to watch it being played when I was a boy in our place as well. Again it looks like another Spanish influence on Filipinos. As far as I can remember, it can be played anywhere, but there's always some heated debate as accusations of cheating (specially for losing bettors), but I don't know how can someone cheat unless he totally rigs the coins.

I don't know if this gambling type of coin is way back years ago but people here still use it the one they called hantak, having 3 coins, and people do a bet if they get 3 tails or 3 heads. And the one who tosses the 3 coins has always the heads, so if he tossed and get 3 heads then he wins, 3 tails he loss.

Never heard of goat fighting though, but yeah, spider derby was common on my place back then. Although I still see kids trying to capture spiders specially during summertime, but I'm not sure if money is involved as well. I'm familiar with head and tails, (still played in corner of my street). And then there's sort of baccarat or what we call "lucky nine", but its not being played with regular cards but with what we call "text" or "teks", or sort of like a pokemon card back then. Those card has numbers on top, so we used that numbers instead just like a regular cards. I remember like I'm 10 years old and having older people betting. LOL. I got them because I rigged the card.  . And then when I have my winnings already, I told them last 2 deals because its time to get home (6 pm).

I'm not really sure though, I thought that cock fighting in the Philippines was a Spanish influence. So its really hard to see Philppines into cock fighting prior to Magellan's arrival, but I might be wrong.

And another historical gambling here is spider derby where often I see people would bring boxes of matchsticks or common boxes that would encase their spiders and this kind of gambling they will place the spiders each on the edge of the sticks then forced them to fight one another. Well, this is the common gambling game I experience in my country.

In India their are lot of street games played some officially and some unofficially, they are goat fighting, cock fighting, this are games which are played in street gambling unofficially. Kite flying competition, this game was played officially but i think today it is not so popular.