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Promotions Come and Go
Caesars Palace used to give away free decks of used cards. It wasn’t advertised anywhere, but if you knew about it, all you had to do was walk up to the cashier and ask for a deck. How did we know about the deal? In this case, we read about it in the Las Vegas Advisor This is the sort of promotion that you find when you keep your eyes and ears wide open. It’s also the kind of promotion that’s here today, gone tomorrow One time you’ll go to Caesars Palace and the cashier will smile and hand you a deck of cards. Then the next time she’ll look at you like you’re out of your mind (and swear that Caesars has never given away free cards). It happens all the time.
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Online Casino Roulette Wheels
The Wheel
During September 1971, Las Vegas's roulette layouts were stealthily bombed by camouflaged black chips. Every weekend, Duke and Jerry would arrive and we'd go out to work. Usually we worked Friday and Saturday, day and nigh and sometimes Sunday afternoon, depending upon the profits and steam already realized. If the town had become too steamy, We couldn't press it, even if the weekend's earnings were not up to par. We basically did the straight-up moves. In a few of the classier joints that handled the action, we slipped in purple chips on streets, relishing the $5,500 payoffs. Those moves were by design and put in by Duke, who sat alongside the table at the top. Joe took Duke's third-section seat at the bottom and check bet, in addition to providing security. Our communication skills were impeccable, and when we were forced to change the move in "midair," there were never any procedural problems. Chips got passed smoothly around the table; check-betting and mechanic roles alternated between Duke, Joe, and Jerry, but it was always Duke doing the straight-ups, which required putting the moves underneath the marker.
Payoff Rate for Roulette
The payoff rate for roulette moves and casino was about 85 percent during the first three weeks of the month. We'd had a few steamy misses, but each time I managed to get Out of the casino. Misses at roulette were the steamiest because casinos were most aware of postposition at that particular game. At craps the misses had been generally blow off by the bosses; nobody went into the Sort of panic they did in rah roulette pit. My teammates had identified a lot of the plainclothes secure agents in the various casinos.
Whenever they Spotted one, they ha, me follow them to where the guy was in the , and I wail, steal a furtive look. This paid dividends right away, because 0 Saturday night at the end of the month, while Joe, Duke, and Jed were positioned on a roulette table at the Las Vegas Hilton, I as one of these plainclothes guys speaking secretively with the mule bass at the podium in the middle of the pit. I approached them close as possible, craned my neck to pick up what I could of their, variation. What I heard was shocking, the security guy was tell-g the pit boss, "Be on the lookout-there's a roulette team in town posting black chips." Which is exactly what we were there at .at very moment to do? I circled back to the table where my team was seated and called ut, "Chester," as if I were addressing someone else across the pit. Everyone quickly scrambled out of the casino and headed to the primary meeting place outside.
Test of Steam
"What happened?" Joe asked as soon as we were all gathered at the Landmark keno lounge. I told him what I had heard. He evaluated the situation and decided we would test the steam in another casino-to what degree had word spread? I remembered that I had claimed a hundred-dollar straight-up move at the Hilton on another shift that had been paid cleanly. Joe's ledger attested to that. He kept records detailing every move, and before going out to work each shift he consulted his ledger.
We went into the Riviera later the same night. This time we didn't bother setting up for a move. Joe just told me to go up to any roulette wheel and make a hundred-dollar bet on a third-section number with a black chip while he watched. I did what I was told, and we had our answer.
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