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Casino And $5,000 Chips Part3
June 9th, 2009
Though normally a casino owner will do just about anything in the world to coax a whale into his casino, MGM Grand owner Kirk Kerkorian flew a personal representative to Australia just to tell Packer face-to-face that his business was no longer welcome at the MGM Grand. Casino old-timers say this is the first time in living memory anything like this ever happened.
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The highest-stakes game I ever witnessed was a chemin de fer session in 1964 at Crockford's Casino in London, with auto magnate Henry Ford II, movie producer Otto Preminger, and an Arab sheik at the table. London chips get bigger as their value increases, and the chips I saw going back and forth across the table were HUGE.
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Only one time in all my casino cruising have I ever seen a craps table run out of chips. It was in the 1960s at the Sands. The table was elbow-to-elbow with High Rollers, all from Providence, Rhode Island. The table minimum was $100, a rarity in the 1960s.
Lady Luck really smiled on the enthusiastic Rhode Islanders as the black chips rapidly disappeared from in front of the boxmen, streaming across the table to the red-hot Providence crowd. To my astonishment, security men suddenly showed up with a rolling table, piled high with racks of the old, discontinued black chips of the 1950s—the cute ones with the smiling cowgirl and the logo, 'Gome As You Are." It was nice seeing them again.
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