Casino Backgammon Game History

Backgammon

Casino About four years ago a sharp young dealer in Las Vegas came to me one morning and asked if he could speak to me privately during lunch. We went over to a vacant 21 table at the Casino. I was managing. To my surprise he asked me quite bluntly if I knew how to cheat with dice. I reminded him that that was a very risky thing to say in this day and age of legalized gambling and with state gaming commissioners lurking about. But after several minutes of talking I realized that he wasn't interested in cheating at dice at the crap tables. He and several of his friends had stumbled on a new game-at least a new game to them-called backgammon.

Starting Of Backgammon Game

The dealer had just returned from a trip to the East Coast and had discovered that backgammon was the current craze. In his home town of New York he found backgammon quickly replacing gin rummy and bridge as the local social game. In New York, Miami, and Chicago there was even some commercial backgammon Clubs springing up. This young dealer had found out from some of his friends that there was plenty of money to be made in hustling backgammon, especially if you took advantage of certain aspects of the game, such as the dice cup and the dice themselves.

Backgammon Hustler

paid off. Remember, the hustler cannot afford to have pride, heart, or soul. His job is to hustle, and it's a very tough, ruthless, cold-blooded business. By not spelling out how the bet will be paid, the hustler, if he should lose, can always say, "Ah, I'll send you a check." Of course, he never plans to send one but then, what does he care; he's a hustler and will be moving on. Or he can say, "I don't have the money right now. I'll pay you tomorrow." Any excuse will do and, unless his opponent is the type of person who can, shall we say, impress upon the hustler that not paying his bet could be very unhealthy, the hustler couldn't care less if he has offended somebody or is called a welcher. The name of the game is survival.
A good backgammon hustler also knows a person in the area who can be called over to settle any disputes. Naturally, that person is in with the hustler and calls the disputes in his favor. Another technique is simply to rattle your opponent by talking to him all the time, making fun of him when he makes a mistake, spilling drinks, acting drunk, blowing smoke in his face, whistling at the girls-just being a loud bore. All these techniques are pretty crude but they are used by hustlers in almost every game. Backgammon is ideally suited for them because traditionally it is played among the upper crust that pride themselves on their manners and etiquette. That kind of attitude is a hustler's dream.
In Online Casino game Backgammon the hustler also doesn't have to worry too much about building the sucker up to make big bets. The secret of hustling is to get the person you can beat to bet a large sum of money. But backgammon has what is known as the "doubling cube," which was introduced in 1925. This doubling cube permits the stakes in a single session to be multiplied by as much as 64, though normally it never goes that high.