[Red Badger]

Sounds like he was going out to blow it all.................

[Pravious]

Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock gambled with at least $160,000 in the past several weeks at Las Vegas casinos, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials.
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Obviously, he’d been planning this massacre for some time. What’s in any way surprising about him gambling large amounts of money if he knew he wasn’t going to be around to enjoy it?

[MrEdd]

Nah. He was worth more than five million.

[circlecity]

This tells us nothing. If he bought 15K worth of chips, then cashed in 14K worth of chips 6 hours later it would be two “high stakes transactions” but account for only a grand worth of losses. Do this for a month and he would have over a dozen “high stakes transactions” involving will over 100K but might only end up being five grand up or down over the whole period. There’s no way to know with this info.

[DannyTN]

What if he was winning?

Casino buys put options on their own stock.
Shoots up the crowd.
Leaves his body in the room before police can get there.

Casino wins on puts and on having to pay him.

/Super conspiracy mode off

[linear]

I’m wondering if he was just angry about losing his lawsuit and wanted to hurt the casinos.

[CGASMIA68]

Maybe they should autopsy this scum bag and see if there was an underlying terminal illness too

[knarf]

without time stamped and dated vids from the casino ... this report is BS

[Sacajaweau]

It says they just record transactions of $10,000 or more....but don't define win or lose.

Sounds more like his last meal....

[Terry Mross]

I’m told there’s an old trick where you show you’re gambling a lot by sending money back and forth so you get a free room.

[R_Kangel]

"Las Vegas Shooter Gambled With At Least $160K In Recent Weeks..."

..... He also wired $100K to his beloved girlfriend in the Philippines a couple of days before the shooting. Why the Philippines if she was coming right back to the US? Ransom?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Paddock reported incurring more than in $32,000 in medical bills, and also wanted to be paid for pain and suffering."

I wonder if he got hooked on pain killers, and if this contributed to a deteriorating mental condition.

[connyankee]

Where’s the girlfriend? is she still out of the country? what is her affiliation with the Philippines? these are questions I’d like to see answered. was he in fact doing something for Isis? or another terrorist group time will tell more will be revealed

[Tammy8]

Do we know what his normal activity was? He was considered a professional gambler so...

[DoughtyOne]

I get a kick out of the folks who state this took meticulous planning.

Lets see.

He moved guns into the room.

He loaded the weapons.

He knocked out windows.

He started firing.

Few people could master these steps... /s

Such wizardry... /s

Was it meticulous planning to bring around 20 guns into the room, when only two to four would be used?

Was it meticulous to plan an event which would result in your own death?

This was a nut job, who did simple things anyone could, to carry out a very evil act.

Let’s not give the guy credit for being meticulous. B.S.

[Gay State Conservative]

There can be little doubt that Harvard Medical School will want to study this pig's brain...

...assuming he didn't put a bullet through it.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Good customer who gambles a LOT? Well then, take whatever you want up to your room including AR-15’s and Mandalay does not care if you keep opening your wallet.

[dragnet2]

Initially asking for $100,000, Paddock reported incurring more than in $32,000 in medical bills, and also wanted to be paid for pain and suffering.

"They always ask for a lot more than they can get, but he got nothing,"

There's one motive.

[Wuli]

He was senior partner in a Texas real estate deal five years ago that netted $12 million. He still five years later had no shortage of money.