What you do in a gambling casino, you're supposed to leave there, but these true stories will probably live on for a long
Crazy things happen in gambling casinos, and I do mean crazy.
Years ago in Reno, NV., Harold Smith Jr., whose father Pappy Smith started Harold's Club, was quite a drinker. All the other casino owners knew about his habit and they usually looked the other way when Harold was drinking.
But one night they couldn't ignore him.
He rode a horse through the swinging doors of Harold's rival casino, Harrah's. Owner Bill Harrah just stood there looking at a scene that seemed to be coming out of "Cat Ballou," the award-winning comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, and shook his head.
"What should we do, boss?" a confused casino employee said.
"Let him gamble," Harrah said with a shrug.
Patricia Demaurio, a grandmother, celebrated her 57th birthday by shooting dice at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. It was only the second time she had ever played dice. She took a $100 bill out of her purse, bought chips, blew on the dice, and started rolling.
She rolled...and rolled...and rolled and never threw a seven for four hours and 18 minutes. The odds against doing that are so high in the millions I wouldn't be able to begin to estimate them.
Casino executives kept track of the rolls. She shot the dice successfully 184 times and set a world's record. Nobody knew how much money the grandmother had won, but you can bet it was plenty.
A family in Georgia was planning a trip to Italy to attend a relative's wedding. The night before they were scheduled to head for the airport, they decided to do a little gambling at a local casino.
It was a losing proposition for the start. The family members got on a losing streak that just wouldn't quit. Down to his last $100 bill, the father of the bride switched to video poker. He bet a maximum amount and watched as an ace, queen and jack of hearts came up. He drew two cards and hit a king-10 of hearts for a royal flush that paid $5,000.
The bad beat jackpot at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada had surpassed $1.5 million. Shane Galle found himself with a queen-eight of spades and Elphege Delarosbil was holding pocket jacks. When all the cards had been flopped, the board showed j-6-9-j-10, with the 9, j, 10 being spades. For his quad jacks, Delarosbil collected $230,000 while Galle was paid $460,000 for his losing quad jacks.
In Las Vegas, Gregory Bolusan was senior pastor at Grace Bible Church. When he was't studying the Bible or preaching, Bolusan had another hobby as a bank robber.
He chose the same casino s his target three different times -- Penn National Gambling's M Resort, using a fake gun each time. After collecting over $32,000 from the resort, the bandit preacher entered another casino to gamble where police found him with the stolen loot.
BELLESDADDY
4 years ago
I like how the family from Georgia was going to Italy for a “relatives” wedding But then all of a sudden he’s the father of the bride. I mean I get it a daughter is a relative but it just seems so informal at first LOL but I do have to say in the first story that one line “ let him gamble” has to be the most gangster line...
I like how the family from Georgia was going to Italy for a “relatives” wedding But then all of a sudden he’s the father of the bride. I mean I get it a daughter is a relative but it just seems so informal at first LOL but I do have to say in the first story that one line “ let him gamble” has to be the most gangster line anyone can say at a moment like that I love it.
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Vanenhox
4 years ago
The first thing that comes to mind in regards to the horse anecdote is: the rare people who at times, in exceptional situations, tolerate rather than penalize outrageously abnormal behavior. The second thing that comes to mind is the question: did the horse poop on the carpet of the casino? Perhaps that story of the craps...
The first thing that comes to mind in regards to the horse anecdote is: the rare people who at times, in exceptional situations, tolerate rather than penalize outrageously abnormal behavior. The second thing that comes to mind is the question: did the horse poop on the carpet of the casino? Perhaps that story of the craps shooting grandma should go down as a tale of the greatest incident of beginners luck in history. In regards to the unlucky wedding party, luck can sometimes turn on a dime when the chips are down and depression is in the drivers seat. Yet suddenly a lightning bolt of fortune's favor from the blue makes the clouds of despair disappear and suddenly the bright warm light of the sun is again shining down. An old man I knew almost thirty years ago told me that playing the numbers is like waiting for the bus, you have to be at the stop when the bus arrives, just as you have to have some money bet on your number when it comes out. Some of us wait half our lives or longer for that bus but the winners of that bad bead jackpot were standing ready when the bus pulled in. Praise the lord the harvest is bountiful this year...at the bank after waving a gun and threatening the bank personnel, but the Lord does work in mysterious ways. The police, however, have tried and true investigative methods which have passed the test again and again. Thanks for the offbeat article Geno...cheers!
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