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To: SeekAndFind
The real question revolves around Billups, who risked his shining reputation and his substantial fortune to help criminals cheat at cards. We can only assume that the mob made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

He obviously lost a substantial part of that fortune gambling. Remember when "Book of Virtues" scribe Bill Bennett lost some $8 million gambling at casinos. It is a great evil.

9 posted on 10/23/2025 4:08:55 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

IF I remember correctly, Bill Bennet did not actually lose $8million. The information in leaked news reports was from his Card Play. Those that frequent casinos know that plahying with your card shows the amount inputed and outputed (if those are words) The information supposedly showed that he played $10million dollars. Well that means he is puts in saY $100 and wins $2, $40, etc and continues spinning (he was playing $5 slots IIRC) and wins and losses can be against that original $100- So $100 in can translate to say $15K worth of play for example. That adds up to $10million over a period of time.


20 posted on 10/23/2025 5:05:01 PM PDT by abigkahuna
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