Post by Elyon on Mar 20, 2014 7:40:24 GMT -8
The Guild-house is in the Street of Alchemists. The current President (chosen by the draw of a card) is Edward Gad. Guild membership is small, because it is restricted to professional gamblers.
The Guild mainly exists to enforce rules about marked cards, loaded dice, shaved billiard balls and so on. Note that it does not ban them, it merely regularizes the size of marks and weight of dice and closeness of shave. (Since all professional gamblers use these items a game between any two of them means that they are cancelled out and the contest becomes, perforce, a matter of skill and luck.)
The Guild also very strictly controls the amount of money a member may take from a non-member (a ‘mark’) in any game; in the words of Scrote Jones, ‘If you want to make money out of keeping sheep you don’t rip their hides off all in one go.’ There are plenty of customers in Ankh-Morpork.
The Guild mainly exists to enforce rules about marked cards, loaded dice, shaved billiard balls and so on. Note that it does not ban them, it merely regularizes the size of marks and weight of dice and closeness of shave. (Since all professional gamblers use these items a game between any two of them means that they are cancelled out and the contest becomes, perforce, a matter of skill and luck.)
The Guild also very strictly controls the amount of money a member may take from a non-member (a ‘mark’) in any game; in the words of Scrote Jones, ‘If you want to make money out of keeping sheep you don’t rip their hides off all in one go.’ There are plenty of customers in Ankh-Morpork.
