Casinos - Gambling - Lottery - Wagering
Feb. 28 Crockford's goes little french with Chemmy..: the epitome of everything strictly British when it was opened by William Crockford - better known as Old Crocky - in 1827, Crockford;s card club has gone more than a little French with the new gaming laws. For Chemin de Feu has arrived to rival bridge and poker. Chemmy experts from France have neen imported to run the play and control the £300, 000-worth of chips - each one with Old Crocky's portrait on it. and Crockford's are flourishing at peak periods they take £500 an hour and their ten shilling sheras have risen to £15... Club members of Crockford'd during an informal game: in the background, Chef de Partis, Sammy Denoun, one of the two inspectors and a waiter. (from left to right)
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