Gambler
Nice tubes. The lights are the same as Top (different logo) and just like the old/new Zig-Zag's. The lights have a white tip with gold bands and name/logo. Laser cut filter perforations and offset seams. Made in Austria. ~$2.00 per 200.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by ALLTALL on Saturday, 15-Sep-2007
The Gambler light is a beautiful tube. It is too bad they poke holes in them.
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- Gambler Tubes (lights) - new paper?
- Posted by cheap & chippy chopper on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007
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People seem to be saying good things about these tubes, and they certainly look great.
My first carton of them is well packed, no crumpled ones, and they look just as good up close.
However, the paper burns twice as fast as my other tubes (Windsail (FF & Elite), Premiere Light, Vera Cruz Elegante).
The cherry gets 1/2 inch long in just a minute or two. My tobacco wonders why it's up there burning naked.
Anyone else noticed this problem - and are they maybe using new paper?
- Re: Gambler Tubes (lights) - perforations
- Posted by cheap & chippy chopper on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007
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... and I have to say I'm not happy to see my precious smoke flying out of the filter perforations.
Guess I may have to give up on finding the perfect white-tipped FF tube. :-/
- Re: Gambler Tubes (lights) - perforations
- Posted by Wazmo Nariz on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007
I've given the Gambler lights a try on a couple of occasions and noticed they burn very fast as well. There really isn't much of a choice when it comes to white-tipped light tubes, however; Premier, Zig Zag and the Gamblers are among the only ones (if not the only ones). I like the Zig-Zag lights (king size) for smoking brightleaf Virginia tobbacos, but which they'd tone down the amount of holes around the filter.
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- Re: Gambler Tubes (lights) - perforations
- Posted by cheap & chippy chopper on Wednesday, 25-Apr-2007
Thanks for the confirmation, Wazmo.
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For taste, I way prefer FF tubes -- but yeah, because of my white tipping jones I've been experimenting with the "light" versions.
I just opened up the box of Gambler Lights again just to look at them, lol. The pic barely does them justice. MAN these things are plain gorgeous. Really, really beautiful.
It is just a dang shame they smoke like recycled toilet paper.
- Re: Gambler Tubes (lights) - new paper?
- Posted by Smokin n Jokin on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007
I've never tried the lights but a convenience store here sells the full flavor for $1.29 so I tried a couple of boxes. Had trouble getting them to fit on the nozzle of my supermatic.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by mike on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2007
these tubes suck
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- Tried Gambler Tubes
- Posted by Bigdog on Friday, 26-Jan-2007
These are excellent tubes. They seem to burn slower, do not add flavor and are very well made. These will be my tube from now on OR until they change manufacturing somehow and stop being good like so many others.
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Highly recommended.
BD
- Re: Tried Gambler Tubes
- Posted by Bigdog on Friday, 26-Jan-2007
The above was about the Full Flavor tubes.
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BD
- Re: Tried Gambler Tubes
- Posted by Keith on Monday, 29-Jan-2007
Sometimes I would get a box that fit too tightly on my Supermatic. I would end up throwing a lot away because they were too small. This didn't happen with every box, but it happened too often for my tastes. I do like the tubes though.
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- gambler tubes
- Posted by brenda on Monday, 22-Jan-2007
Hello, We use gambler tubes all the time and this last box we bought from admiral gas station about half of the box the tubes are too small for the roller. I have 2 rollers and it is too small for both of them.
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- Re: gambler tubes
- Posted by scott johnson on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2007
Take them back and exchange them.
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- Re: Gambler Full Flavor King Size
- Posted by Turtle on Sunday, 24-Dec-2006
Good tube. Almost exactly like the Zig Zags, taste slightly different. The Zig Zags are slightly better even though these are cheaper.
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- Re: Gambler Full Flavor King Size
- Posted by Dave Grant on Sunday, 24-Dec-2006
The only problem I've encountered with the Gambler tubes (FF) is size variations. Every now and then, I'll get a box that is simply a little too tight for my SuperMatic. Other than that, they are a good tube, and quite inexpensive locally.
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- Gambler
- Posted by bebop on Thursday, 23-Nov-2006
Just picked up a few boxes of these to try. They seemed to pack extremely tight on my top o matic (I tryed a premier just to see if i was packing to much tobbaco in the chamber but the premier packed fine).Anyway i adjusted the amount of tobacco and tryed them out. The tobacco tasted a little harsh in these and too much smoke coming out of the filter perforations. The perforations are large. So i not sure if i just got a bad batch of these tubes (slightly undersized and perforations too large?). I think i'll be sticking with the zen and pemier tubes as these allow the flavor of the tobacco to come through and stuff a lot easier. I just got into SYO a month ago because of the cost. Then found how great the tobacco really tastes. So now I'm just trying to find tubes that allow the flavor of tobacco to come through. The gambler's (for my taste anyway) just didn't work out.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by Dave Grant on Sunday, 26-Nov-2006
I picked up a couple of boxes of the Lights, myself. The large perforations are a drawback, IMO. I think I'll stick to the Gambler FF tubes, which are available locally for $1.49 a box.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by bebop on Monday, 27-Nov-2006
Whoops, I had forgot to mention it was the Gambler lights i had tried. I never tried the FF.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by Kerry on Monday, 27-Nov-2006
Before I got into MYO, I smoked lights in pre-mades. So, just starting out I went with the light tubes. Once I got into MYO completely I found Gambler tubes, but found very quickly that their light tubes were just too light for me, especially since I stuff my sticks fairly firm.
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With the firmly packed sticks I have found the FF Gambler tubes to be quite good and fairly consistent. Not to mention I can get them locally although they went up from $1.49 to $1.69 recently.
- Re: Tubes
- Posted by Amanda on Thursday, 06-Jul-2006
I recieved a box of Gambler Full Flavor Tubes from a Wesco where I live and some of the filters in the tubes are too far in and when I stuff my cigarette the tube is shoved out. I hope someone will read this and figure out what the problem is and fix it. It is a big inconvenience to neither have to use a different tube or cut the end of the filter.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by Diana Dockett on Sunday, 23-Apr-2006
I have been using Gambler tubes and have no trouble with them before . But the last time i bought tube about 1/4 of both boxes i bought split when i was rolling my cigarettes. I don't know if u are using different glue but I have tryed everything to solve the problem. If u can please contact me by e- mail i would really appreciated it.Thank you very much
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- Re: RYO Cigarette
- Posted by zippy on Saturday, 08-Oct-2005
Gambler tubes are my prefered brand. I have tried Premier, Tops, Zig Zag and El-Ray.
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Gambler beats them all for stuffing, followed closely by El-Ray, but at the price I get Gambler tubes locally, $1.49 a box, none compare.
- Gambler Full Flavor
- Posted by John R. Marshall on Monday, 21-Feb-2005
My normal brand. The full flavors do not have an offset seam. Come to think about it I had a box of lights a month or so ago and I don't recall them having gold bands or offset seams.. but I could be wrong.
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- Re: Gambler Full Flavor
- Posted by Dave L on Thursday, 24-Feb-2005
Can someone confirm this? Is (was?) CTC making Gambler as well??
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by irishguyincc on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2005
I recently purchased some Gambler light tubes from lilbrown, and they looked just like the posted picture and were labeled "Made in Austria." So I don't think CTC is making the light tubes, no idea about the full flavors. I like the tubes, but wish they had a little longer filter element and smaller vent holes. The tubes smoke alot like a Lucky Strike light, they also have large filter holes.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by Dave L on Wednesday, 13-Apr-2005
My guess is that he was thinking of Zig-Zag which used to be exactly like Gambler until CTC started making them.
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Gambler/Top and ElRey do seem to let more air through/be lighter than the Silver Tip's.
I'd also like to see a longer filter element. Seems to me they should be like premade's, close to tipping paper length.
- Re: Gambler
- Posted by Hotrodder on Tuesday, 10-Aug-2004
My favorite tubes, and cheap $1.59 per 200. They seem to be the same as Top tubes.
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- Re: Gambler
- Posted by jeff on Monday, 12-Sep-2005
where did you get these tubes so inexpensively?
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