Abe F. Brown
Casino History
Ed Kennedy
Gambling
Gambling History
Gambling: Loss
Games / Races: Faro
Gaming History
George Wingfield
It Really Happened
Nevada
Tonopah Club (Tonopah, NV)
Tonopah--Nevada
United States
High Roller Bucks the Tiger in Tonopah
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…