Casino poker dice layout5/16/2023 ![]() I had to convert all bets back to Pounds and Shillings in my head, and then back to dollars & cents to make each payout! My first job as a break-in Croupier in London was at the popular sixties, show business hangout, the “Cromwellian Club” in South Kensington which was owned by Tony Mitchell, and the wrestling promoter Paul Lincoln AKA Doctor Death . It was challenging to say-the-least to learn to deal the games in Pounds & Shillings, but even more of a head-spinner to revert to the decimal system and dollars & cents upon my return to the States in 1968 and employment in downtown, Las Vegas. This was for the bookmaker/turf accountants “City Tote Ltd.” located in Sheppard’s Market, just off Curzon Street in Mayfair (for ten quid a week, before taxes!). About this time I also started working as a board-boy, posting the odds coming over the wire service from the race tracks. The father & son thing was not quite working out and I soon found myself waiting tables in South Kensington which barely paid for food and a four-quid-a-week bed-sitter. I had moved to London from Florida the year previously to work for my father’s electronic s’ business in the Holland Park Mews. We all looked up to Tony as he was an experienced croupier with all of three months experience working in the business! An old timer as far as we were concerned. My own globe-trotting, gaming career began as a trainee Croupier, attending Tony Black’s Croupier’s school, located a floor above the Mazurka Club on Soho’s Denman Street. That being the case, I leave that part of London casino history to others whom I sincerely hope will contribute their own experiences’ and recollections to this tale-o’-the-times. were beyond the aspirations’ of a young eighteen-year-old break-in, trying to make his way in this new and glamorous world. My own experiences were primarily in the smaller, grass roots casinos, which in the States would have been referred to as “sawdust joints.” The exalted environs of John Aspinal’s, Clermont Club, Quent’s, and Crockford’s etc. ![]() Betting on sports futures, props and lay bets.
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