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08-26-2008 , 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by a5wantinga10
lol at not having it all in hundo's.

what kind of moron redneck broke idiot would take a pic?

prob the same that thinks they can beat roulette..
No black people will take a pic. No asians or latinos will. No middle-class white suburbanites will.
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08-26-2008 , 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by a5wantinga10
lol at not having it all in hundo's.

what kind of moron redneck broke idiot would take a pic?

prob the same that thinks they can beat roulette..


roulette is beatable, if you find the bias on the wheel....although not as easy in vegas cause the house edge is larger then europes...
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08-26-2008 , 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
Being that a quarter is .069 of an inch thick and .956 of an inch in diameter, and if they were stacked 30 inches high, how much floor space in square feet would that be?




Also you're kind of a dork for quoting the exact dimensions of a quarter

Last edited by Sponger.; 08-26-2008 at 01:17 PM. Reason: nerds!
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08-26-2008 , 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Sponger.




Also you're kind of a dork for quoting the exact dimensions of a quarter

LOL that'd be about it. You could stack them in less than 60 sq. ft @ 30 inches high. Well within a 8' X 8' area. Not really visually impressive, but hell to stack and fun to knock down. And, you are lame for not knowing the exact dimensions of a quarter. Know your money. You'll never do well at prop bets.
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08-26-2008 , 01:33 PM
Thats Jonny hughes back right. The other three ducks with him are dead now though.
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08-26-2008 , 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by a5wantinga10
lol at not having it all in hundo's.

what kind of moron redneck broke idiot would take a pic?

prob the same that thinks they can beat roulette..
Suck it.

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08-26-2008 , 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
Being that a quarter is .069 of an inch thick and .956 of an inch in diameter, and if they were stacked 30 inches high, how much floor space in square feet would that be?
Don't know about quarters, but you can extrapolate from this view of a million pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/six.asp

...or 10 million:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seven.asp

../or a billion:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/nine.asp
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08-26-2008 , 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul B.
FYP.

Assuming each brick of money is 200 bills, that display is comprised of 13.5 bricks of 100s, 172 bricks of 20s and 210 bricks of 1s, for a total of 395.5 bricks. That means only 3.4% of the money is hundos. What's the point of even having hundos when they represent such a small percent of the total displayed bills?

A display of 5000 bricks of singles would be a sight to see.
Each wrapper is 100 bills.
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08-26-2008 , 06:00 PM
458 Lott is right about the Binions. I had written an article about gambler nicknames for TexasMonthly.com. It said in the lead that Amarillo Slim was the world's most famous gambler. I gave him a copy. At the World Series, he brought Becky over to talk with Doyle, when Doyle came back after a brief absense. Slim said it was him that got them back together. Slim showed Doyle and Becky the article I wrote. I believe Doyle and Becky's dispute involved some chips, maybe $25,000 chips, that Becky wouldn't cash after Jack left for Mississippi. Rumors, rumors, rumor...and nothing more than a rumor, said that Doyle owned a small piece of Jack's Mississippi joints, maybe 3 %. Don't know. I do not know Doyle.

Becky ruined everything: dealer relations, the Buffet, the press. She didn't pay the floor crew the promised amount.

Benny Binion's Dallas and Ft. Worth interests were larger than his start in Las Vegas. He controlled lots of action: dice games, policy wheels, bookies. There is a great book, I Do My Own Damned Killing, about Benny.
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08-26-2008 , 06:02 PM
I was at Binions last week--I think they charge $5 or $10 to get up close and look at it.
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08-26-2008 , 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by larocka
I was at Binions last week--I think they charge $5 or $10 to get up close and look at it.
this is a joke right?

+1 to johnny hughes posting that pic if he can
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08-26-2008 , 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
Being that a quarter is .069 of an inch thick and .956 of an inch in diameter, and if they were stacked 30 inches high, how much floor space in square feet would that be?
< 64 square feet roughly, u could stack em in an 8' x 8' floor space.
dunno if the floor could bear that much weight tho...
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08-26-2008 , 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DUBBLEBUBBLE
I heard Harrah's took them when they took the WSOP
No, they didn't. They were gone before Harrah's bought the WSOP

Coin dealer buys Binion's display

and (the below article also has pics of the old display, and what a 10k bill looks like)

Binion Horseshoe Casino $10,000 Notes Now Available to Public

At one time, as stated in this article, here, there were also 100k bills in circulation as well.

Last edited by CincyLady; 08-26-2008 at 08:58 PM.
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08-26-2008 , 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Obfuscation
Suck it.

Jesus, I wish you hadn't posted this. I just lost my supper.
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08-26-2008 , 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Johnny Hughes

Benny Binion's Dallas and Ft. Worth interests were larger than his start in Las Vegas. He controlled lots of action: dice games, policy wheels, bookies. There is a great book, I Do My Own Damned Killing, about Benny.
If you want to read a good book, with some stuff about Benny it check out, "Vengence" by Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno.
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08-27-2008 , 03:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Sponger.




Also you're kind of a dork for quoting the exact dimensions of a quarter
LOL, you guys need to watch this ducktales video, not a rickroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmpAx8Z5z40
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08-28-2008 , 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
LOL that'd be about it. You could stack them in less than 60 sq. ft @ 30 inches high. Well within a 8' X 8' area. Not really visually impressive, but hell to stack and fun to knock down. And, you are lame for not knowing the exact dimensions of a quarter. Know your money. You'll never do well at prop bets.
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Originally Posted by Sponger.




Also you're kind of a dork for quoting the exact dimensions of a quarter
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Originally Posted by Lethal Bizzle
Thats Jonny hughes back right. The other three ducks with him are dead now though.
OMG!! I saw this jab at Johnny Hughes and how everybody he knows and talks about is dead. I started cracking up at this jab until I realized, I know Johnny Hughes. Should I be scared?
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08-28-2008 , 03:02 AM
a million bucks nowadays aint jack squat to have and oogle over in a billion dollar business.

why maybe i will go to the bank and get a million cash out and put it in front of kmart in town and post a picture of me throwing it up in the air. it aint no big deal.

it was forty years ago and alot of money to have tied up sitting doing nothing.
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08-28-2008 , 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
a million bucks nowadays aint jack squat to have and oogle over in a billion dollar business.

why maybe i will go to the bank and get a million cash out and put it in front of kmart in town and post a picture of me throwing it up in the air. it aint no big deal.

it was forty years ago and alot of money to have tied up sitting doing nothing.
Just how many millions do you have in the bank, Ray?
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08-28-2008 , 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Ray Zee

why maybe i will go to the bank and get a million cash out and put it in front of kmart in town and post a picture of me throwing it up in the air. it aint no big deal.
Ray????? LOL Been hitting the ol panther sweat?

Last edited by 458 Lott; 08-28-2008 at 10:20 AM.
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08-28-2008 , 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul B.
FYP.

Assuming each brick of money is 200 bills, that display is comprised of 13.5 bricks of 100s, 172 bricks of 20s and 210 bricks of 1s, for a total of 395.5 bricks. That means only 3.4% of the money is hundos. What's the point of even having hundos when they represent such a small percent of the total displayed bills?

A display of 5000 bricks of singles would be a sight to see.

At the fed in Chicago they actually have a display of 1,000,000 singles. It's in this giant lucite cube.

Right next to it there is a display of 10,000 hundreds.
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08-28-2008 , 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by CincyLady
At one time, as stated in this article, here, there were also 100k bills in circulation as well.
The numismatic nit in me, demands that I correct this statement. The $100,000 gold certificate never circulated. Quoted from the referenced article:

"The $100,000 dollar bill is actually not a dollar bill at all, it's a gold certificate. What's a gold certificate? Well a gold certificate is money that the government prints that only they can own and use.

It is intended for only the use in Fiscal Channels. They were never issued or used for general circulation."
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08-28-2008 , 01:40 PM
How many stacks of "high society" is 5bricks of one's?
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08-28-2008 , 02:03 PM
someone plz tell me that u dont actually have to pay to view this thing.....
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08-29-2008 , 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by patstap
The numismatic nit in me, demands that I correct this statement. The $100,000 gold certificate never circulated. Quoted from the referenced article:

"The $100,000 dollar bill is actually not a dollar bill at all, it's a gold certificate. What's a gold certificate? Well a gold certificate is money that the government prints that only they can own and use.

It is intended for only the use in Fiscal Channels. They were never issued or used for general circulation."
Hmm ... I guess I misread that part. Good information to know for future reference.
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