Chp 10
“TAKING CHANCE$”
Chp 10
“TAKING CHANCE$”
Mandalay
Bay & Four Seasons was a 3,700 room, $950 million resort
extravaganza. There was a 12,000-seat arena complex that hosted major
sporting contests, superstar concerts, and special events. Flawless and
the girls fell in love with the attraction. They walked past the “House
of Blues” which was a live music and restaurant one-stop spot, which sat
right next to the casino. The casino whose three indispensable
characteristics were chance, luck, and choice.
As Flawless walked through the casino in his fresh linens he had purchased, he browsed the floor for a game to play.
The first game he came across was the infamous crap table. This game
was much too familiar, in fact, he was a con to this game and it was his
favorite of many.
Flawless walked up to the crap table with his girls on his arms. He
placed his hand on the rail of the table, just quick enough for the
players to get a glimpse of his ring by Loraine Swartz, and his watch
that he had bought from Jacob & Co.
The hustler’s wives were all eyes as they broke their necks to look.
The lights glimmered off of the Louis Vuitton sunglasses that he wore.
The creases on his Thom Browne tailor made suit made him look unique.
The ruby cuff links finally served their purpose as they added more
shine to his glow. All the women wore their best linens that matched the
shoes, which Flawless had gotten them.
“Money on the wood is good!” The houseman yelled.
“Lay
your money down and stay around!” he continued as he waited for a
sucker. The housemen were slick when it came to these games, but little
did they know Flawless had brought a few tricks of his own.
When Flawless stepped up to the table, he had crooked dice hidden in
his palm, trapped between the base of his thumb and the edge of his
hand. He waited patiently for his turn before he dropped a fade.
When the houseman got to Flawless, he dropped a band of money on the
table, and told his girls to bet on him. He handed the three of them a
band apiece, which valued $10,000 apiece. The onlookers whispered under
their breaths, as they looked each other up and down wondering how he
managed to obtain so much confidence to put forty thousand down on one
bet.
“Let’s go daddy!” the girls yelled as they went along in good faith that Flawless would seven or eleven on the first roll.
Flawless picked up the Casino dice with the tips of his forefinger and
pinky trapping the dice between them. As his fingers curled in, he
dropped down the crooked dice that were palmed to the base of his
fingers. Then he pushed the honest dice into his palm to be palmed just
as the crooked ones had been as he pulled a common thumb and palm switch
that professional dice crooks use.
“Is you wit me or against me?” Flawless yelled as he threw the dice and rolled them out.
“Seven!”
the houseman yelled as the dice rolled over, one on the “Two” and the
other on the “Five.” The girls jumped up and down in amazement as
Flawless took control of the game and was up forty thousand in one roll.
“That's my daddy!” Moscato yelled as the houseman slid the dice back.
“Bet back!” Flawless said as he motioned to the houseman.
“Bet
back!” he said once more as he gave an order for the girls to bet on
him once more. The whole process took only a split second. It may sound
simple, but actually, the “Palm switch” is one of the most difficult
dice moves to learn. Mastering this shady art of dice switching required
a lot of time and practice.
“My hoes need clothes!” Flawless yelled as he rolled the dice out once
more. “Eleven!” the houseman yelled. This time the whole table jumped
up and down in amazement as Flawless hit the house for another $40,000
in one roll.
“Daddy
you on fire!” Sweetpea said as she pecked him on the cheek. Flawless
had all eyes on him as he held down the crap table. He played four more
games and won before he switched the dice back.
“Drinks on me!” Flawless said as his phenomenon of craving kicked in wanting to celebrate.
Self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses of course for
drinking, and for all kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. Flawless had
made an invention of alibis his fine art. He had to drink because the
times were hard or the times were good, it really did not matter. He
thought “conditions” drove him to drink, and when his mind tried to help
him correct these conditions, he could not stop, and his drinking went
out of hand, as he became an alcoholic. On
his way to the bar, he could feel all eyes on him as he walked away
from the table, even the eyes in the sky, but did not care. He was
addicted to money, and prepared to do what he had to do to get it.
Flawless and the girls thought about dining at several of the hotels
finest restaurants. They needed something to do while they let the table
cool down. Flawless had just stepped in the Casino and it was not
thirty minutes before he was up $240,000.
Beyonce was performing live at the event center, so Flawless took the
girls to get a bar of that first. After they left the event center, they
hit up Disney’s award winning theatrical version of “Lion King” It was
such a beautiful play. Flawless could not focus on anything but more and
more money and all the alcohol that surrounded him. The Casinos were
filled with cocktail servers. They were the ones who kept the gambling
junkies like Flawless good and full by serving alcoholic beverages. For
some reason the cocktail server managed to find Flawless no matter where
he was at and kept him full.
The
clerk came back and forth taking his orders. The drinks were put on a
tray, and the cocktail servers were responsible for serving individuals
who were gambling in the gaming area to some of whom may be high
rollers. That night Flawless fell into that category as he racked up on a
shit load of money.
“Say playa, you new to the city?” said Flawless’s splitting image. A
young player that had a similar system of cash and carry who was
evolving. He was a prominent pioneer and inner city pimp by the name of
“New Daddy”
The sex business had been part of “New Daddy’s” vision since he had
knocked his first hoe at the age of 13. Word on the street was that his
message to the male patrons was that they could spend every night with a
different girl, and never be seen by anyone.
“Yea, I just touched down……who the fuck are you?” Flawless said as he
took inventory of the interesting character that stood before him with
his hoes lined up like a car dealership.
“I’m just a young pimp named New Daddy” he started “And as you can see
all my hoes are Brand new” he continued. By the look of his stable “New
Daddy” had a wide variety of hoes that made Flawless’s girls look like
stragglers. He stood before Flawless looking like he had just left the
all white party. New Daddy had on a coke white top hat with a white mink
coat that just lounged over his shoulders. New Daddy had Gazelles over
his eyes and a toothpick in his mouth resembling the late Pimp C. His
girls were a mixture of coat-check girls, escorts, loungers, showgirls,
and a couple of flat out ragamuffins. This player looked as if he was
not turning anything down but his collar.
The one thing that Flawless and New Daddy had in common was that they
understood that sexual excitement was implicit in gambling and that
women were integral to the casino scenery.
Flawless did not even have to ask New Daddy where he was from because
of his gigantic belt buckle and cowboy boots, which said a lot.
“Must be one of them Texas boys,” Flawless thought to himself.
“Drinks on me playa,” New Daddy said as he signaled for the cocktail
servers. “Be gone!” he said as he snapped his fingers. His hoes
dispersed like roaches with the lights on.
“Aye
yall, excuse me for a min” Flawless told the girls. “Yall mingle around
a little bit and check out the scene” Flawless continued. Moscato,
Sweetpea, and Rosa disappeared but did not go far.
“So you got a name, or should I call you brand new?” New Daddy said as he slipped one past Flawless.
“You can call me Cali,” Flawless said as he straightened out his
collar. “Aye check this out” Flawless started “I don’t know what you
selling, but I’m not buying” he continued.
“Come on Cali, I’m into making friends not enemies. You from Cali
right? Game recognizes game at all levels, so I thought I’d introduce
myself,” New Daddy said. “I just thought maybe we could be of a service
to each other” New Daddy continued.
“First of all, I didn’t come to Vegas to make friends, I came to make money,” Flawless said.
“What would you fellaz like to drink?” the cocktail server said as she slid up to the rail of the bar.
“What you drinking Cali?” New Daddy asked.
“Two shots of Don Julio wit the lime” Flawless said as he observed New Daddy cautiously and his intentions.
“If you want to make some money, I can show you how,” New Daddy said as
he whipped out his bankroll that did not impress Flawless at all.
“Maybe we get it together, you know? shit isn't easy out here,” New
Daddy said as he practically begged for Flawless’s friendship.
“Hey let me get two Cutty Bangs” New Daddy told the server to send her away as he felt she was soaking up too much game.
“I don’t know…..” Flawless said carefully considering the young players invitation.
“Maybe you can show me around a little bit, and show me who is who and what not,” Flawless said keeping thing s neutral.
“You ever heard the phrase shaking hands making friends Cali?” New Daddy asked Flawless.
“Yea why?” Flawless asked curiously, trying to figure out where he was going with things.
“I know a few people in high places, that may come in handy while you
enjoy your stay here in Las Vegas,” New Daddy told Flawless. Flawless
turned up his first shot and slammed it on the bar.
“The first thing we going to do is get your stable up” New Daddy
started. “Any girls caught hanging around the Casinos, restaurants, or
lounges too long are in violation of this pimpin,” He continued. “These
girls are potential streetwalkers, part-time call girls, swinging
co-eds, and showgirls,” New Daddy told Flawless as he shared his vision.
Flawless turned up his other shot as he tried to hear him out.
“The code of silence here is second nature to the gamblers,” He told
Flawless as he turned up the glass of his “Cutty Bang”. “It’s a lot of
renegade money here Cali” New Daddy started. “You see now, which is very
different from many years before, there are more houses where
prostitutes live together and try to do it on their own. Many call girls
only do their business through staff of one or more of the Casinos.
Some share their fees with employees who called them. Others may be
called directly by management to deal with a high roller and distract
him until the roller has gambled his winnings back to the house.” New
Daddy told Flawless as he broke down the science of the Nevada Casino
life.
By this time Flawless was all ears, he figured he could use some brains
like New Daddy, and what he had to bring to the table. Thus far, he had
shown to be very precise to the way of life here, and by the look of
his threads, jewelry, and women. The proof was in the pudding.
“You see Cali, the amount of prostitution here, safely, are the same as
that of Amsterdam or Paris, but have been kept so discreet that there
are few that really knew the truth.” New Daddy said as he continued to
fill him in. “More advice to you Cali, which you will find helpful, is
posting Ads of your girls in their best two-pieces” New Daddy said.
Flawless had developed a headache from soaking up so much knowledge. It
was either that, or the two shots of Don Julio. Much less here or
there, he was ready to get back to the tables, and try his luck some
more.
Las Vegas had always been a draw for entertainment. Singers, dancers,
comedians, ventriloquists, magicians, jugglers, animal trainers,
acrobats, and many other attractions found a home here.
After Flawless rounded up the girls, they headed down the strip on foot to check out other hotels and Casinos.
“Wow!
Look at the pyramid baby!” Moscato said. When Flawless focused in on
the gigantic pyramid, he wondered what the big crowd was doing looking
up in the sky. When they looked again and focused in again, they noticed
one of the local magicians by the name of Chriss Angel climbing up the
side of the thirty-story pyramid. All you could hear was
“Woooooowwwwww!!!” as the on lookers got excited watching from the sidelines.
“Look!
My god he’s levitating over the pyramid now,” Rosa said. When Flawless
looked back up Criss Angel had climbed up the pyramid and was now
hovering over the top of it like a bird with no strings attached. He was
truly phenomenal. The Luxor was among the most recognizable resorts on
the strip because of its design as the great pyramid of Giza. Encased in
the thirty-story pyramid of black glass with a fixed spotlight
emanating from its apex, was the hotel, which could be seen as far as
Los Angeles and Arizona on clear nights. Despite the lights, and
seemingly odd shape as a hotel, the Luxor's Egyptian themed interior
contained a surprising four hundred and five guest rooms and four
hundred and eighty seven suites.
Flawless and the girls walked right past keno and roulette when they
walked inside. Slots were not the worse gamble in the Casino. Keno was
the dollar grabber. It took twenty-five percent slice of your
investment. The payoff for correctly picking a single number was 3 to 1
but the odds against you were 4 to 1. I guess that is why they had the
most comfortable chairs with armrests.
Next to keno, the worst game ever to try your luck with was American
Roulette. This game, the table has both a “0” and a “00” and the odds
were 5.26 percent against you.
When Flawless walked around in the Casinos, he could tell after just a
few games whether a person would be a winner or a loser, but it was just
his luck, that every game he played he won. While Flawless wandered
from table to table, he thought about the Economics attached to the conversation he had with “New Daddy” and the meat of what he said was vaguely hidden within.
“It’s Economics
my dear!” he pondered as he thought powerfully to himself. He thought
about it for a second, and rationalized that yes, as he input his hoes
to the equation made everything easier to understand but the most
powerful thought of all of this was simplicity. These laws of economics, could be applied with anything as an input, not just hoes. He realized that when production took place, it occurred when knowledge or technology was used to apply energy to materials, which made them more valuable.
“Wow!”
he thought as he processed that whole thought. Flawless had a moment of
clarity as he thought about his resources. He thought about “Labor.” Labor
was nothing but productive efforts made available in human beings, and
the payments for these labor services produced something called “wages”
So the moment of clarity was that yea his women provided a service or
labor so to say, which in return produced the wages. The input of it all
was that the input did not have to be women, it could be something
simple as any service or product he could find that would in return
generate a wage, and that was the labor.
“Boom!” he thought to himself. Flawless mind-fucked himself all the way to the slot machines.
Rosa, Sweetpea, and Moscato took turn pulling on the slot machines.
There were many to choose from, all different shapes, colors, and sizes.
The Luxor had a wide variety from nickel machines, dimes, quarters, and
dollars.
“The
only way to win is to bet the max” Flawless said “Other than that, all
it’s going to do is eat up the money” he finished. “Might as well go for
the gusto!” he said as he coached them to raise the stakes.
While the girls tried their luck on the slots, Flawless wandered off
again to the Blackjack table. As he watched the girls try their luck
from across the room, he thought to himself how billions of quarters had
been dropped into Casino slot machines since day one. Now years’ later
gambling is one of the fastest growing industries not just in the United
States of America, but all throughout the world.
When Flawless sat down at the Blackjack table, he felt the attention
shift his way. While everybody watched him, he had his focus on the
charming young woman that sat across from him running the table. She
never bothered to look his way as she continued to win.
By the way she continued to win, she obviously cast a spell on
Flawless. The young woman had an energetic presence. As Flawless closely
observed her, he realized that he definitely shared some of the same
values and tastes: Money! He understood her spirit, and recognized her
charm.
As Flawless brought many tricks up his sleeve to Vegas, he thought that
this would be a good time to illuminate some expertise. Blackjack was
one more of many games he liked to play where he could exploit his
mathematical principle in a legitimate way. By keeping track of which
cards had been played, he always knew whether the composition of the
remainder of the deck was in his favor. He would then bet and play
accordingly. The technique of keeping track of the cards was called
“card counting”. There was nothing dishonest about it, but it was such a
powerful strategy that it allowed Flawless to take control of the game.
He then felt the charming young woman that sat across from him
re-direct her attention to where he was.
“Time
to turn my charm on” Flawless thought to himself. When the next hand
was dealt, Flawless knew that he was due, from his mental count. His
first card was an Ace, and he prayed the next was a ten. He raised his
bet enfold as he kept his attention on the cards. As the dealer dealt
his next card, he was satisfied. The whole table had bet against
Flawless assuming that his raise was a bluff. As he raised his head when
his turn came to reveal his cards, he said…….
“That’s
thirty-five thousand dollars plus one……muthafuckas can you buy that?”
as he did his interpretation of “Goldie” from “The Mack”. The young
woman broke a smile as the dealer raked the table and slid Flawless his
winnings.
Even Ray Charles could see that Flawless had a gift. He was able to
express a strong presence of confidence that women admired. He radiated
an inward quality that had a phenomenal glow. It was a gift from the
Gods. When Flawless looked once more across the table at the young woman
who sat alone, his mind wandered back to the conversation he had with
New Daddy about women violating his pimpin, and the charisma he offered
made women crave for him as they visually fell in love with how he
moved. Every sign of charisma he had, played to his desire for more
money, and to believe in something. There was nothing more seductive
than giving the woman who had all eyes on him at full attention
something or someone to believe in and follow. After all the players
picked their jaws up and closed their mouths, Flawless stood up from the
table and rounded up his earnings.
“You
aren’t winning unless you out the ninth inning!” he said as he brushed
past the dealer and approached the young woman. Flawless knew, at this
point his charm depended on his choice of words, which due to the
circumstances of his winnings, which held power. Words were the quickest
way to create an emotional disturbance. They could uplift, elevate, and
stir anger without referring to anything real. Therefore, with that
being said, Flawless stopped right in front of the girl and did not even
bother to ask her what her name was.
“I
got ninety-nine problems and money aint one “He started as he laid his
ring finger on the table and repositioned it. “But two things that I
aint never seen, is a U.F.O, and a hoe that didn’t want to go” Flawless
continued as he extended his hand. It was Flawless’s physical attribute
that was a major factor in his seduction. When she looked into his eyes,
she saw excitement without a word being spoken. His indirect
communication, poised and calm charm made him appear to have a piercing
gaze that disturbed the young woman’s emotions. The game that Flawless
played was by choice not force, and she blatantly realized that as she
reached out for his hand. As Flawless had tested his pimpin like a pro,
he realized another one had to go……..She had Chose Up!
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