I think you'd be interested in sweet teaching about having a poker face.

That's pretty good.

This'll book.

Not in the best condition, but it's an old book.

I think it was just for the home use.

People want to learn the different card games.

I'm hoping to get 1500 the least amount would be 1000.

So where'd you get the book from?

One in a poker game.

So let me get this right.

You're playing a poker game with your buddy.

You make a raise and he can't cover with chips.

So you say, How about that old poker book?

Yeah, that's how it went.

I like your style.

He said.

It was published Win in 18 66.

Long whist dum B or three handed a whist five card cribbage.

A lot of games I've never heard of, man.

Straight poker, draw poker.

Never heard a whisky poker, But I have heard a stud poker.

All right, so it does have some poker in there.

This is a really cool book.

I think a book like this belongs here in Vegas town like this was built on card plan.

Yes, it waas.

That's why I brought it here.

Rick always tells me to buy things from the early days of gambling.

And this book is practically ancient.

It might be falling apart a little, but I might go drop a $20 bill and pick this thing up for myself.

How much do you want to sell it for?

1500 1500 Man.

I was thinking 2030 bucks.

I looked online and found one similar and they were asking 25.

You sure there wasn't a decimal point after that?

Five?

No, there was.

And I looked over it again and again.

Um, not saying I don't believe you, man, but it's a lot of money for a book on card rules, but it is pretty old.

I got my book expert in the back, and she's going over a few other things, so I'd like her to come take a look at this.

If you don't have any objection to that, I welcome in.

I'd like to know more about the book.

All right.

Cool.

I'm very happy that the book experts here I'm ready to prove him wrong and walk out with some money.

Well, Rebecca, sorry to pull you away from the dungeon with Rick, but here's the rule book I was telling you about.

I'm in the back.

I'm looking at a bunch of books for Rick.

And then Chum calls me out.

He wants me to look at another book.

These guys are all business.

Can't we just go and get a cup of coffee?

So much to ask what we have here.

Book published in 18.

66 about different card games.

Okay, where did you get it?

Won in a poker game.

You want a card book in a poker game?

Yes, I did.

All right.

Well, let's take a look at it then.

This is just a great example of one of those how to books that they have the 19th century.

These things were really popular because there wasn't a great educational system.

So then you get all these how to books, how to be a gentleman, how to cook, how to clean, how to play cards is a book like this actually collectible.

You know, it's not a first edition Huckleberry Finn, but there are people who really love collecting gambling books, so there is a market for it.

The thing that's interesting about this book in particular is that there weren't actually any books on the rules of poker until 18 58.

That's documented.

So this one at 18 66 is kind of a big deal.

And there are some other things going on with it that might be interesting to a collector.

Las Vegas is the perfect market for this because you're going to have people who are really excited about gambling.

And you have professional poker players coming here all the time.

They love something like this.

So he wants 1500 bucks for this beat up old dusty book.

Well, a book like this, you expect to be beat up.

It's gonna be heavily used.

I mean, that being said what?

I would place this book out if I were to give it a price.

I would say 2000 maybe a little bit more.

$2000.

Are you guys taking shots in the back room?

Wow.

It sounds like you got a winner here.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, thank you.

Yeah.

A pleasure.

Chum was really surprised about how much this book could go for.

But there's a whole genre of collecting gambling books, so there is a market for it.

So how much do you want to get for it?

Said 2000.

How about 1800?

I'm not gonna go that high.

My boss would kill me if I bought a book for $1800 made $200 on it.

And if it sat in here for a year, there's no one I'd keep my job.

I'm looking more like about 1200.

That's to be an easy sell.

It's not as easy as you think.

I think it is.

You're in Vegas.

This is first Tom Sawyer.

I could put this in this case.

It would be gone tomorrow, But it's a specialized book on gambling.

So give me a more realistic number that I could work with.

Man 1600 if you come down just a little bit more, maybe 13.

50.

You know, I could definitely make a deal with you.

Make it 14.

You can go write it up.

I think I might have to leave it on the table with you.

13 75 and you can go write it up.

I'm not gonna beat you up over $25.

That's a deal.

Lucky for me, I got a good deal in the focus book.

Now, I just gotta make sure people doesn't need it for lunch.