Posted on 10/05/2017 6:22:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
"We’re wealthy people," Eric Paddock said. "$100,000 isn’t that much money.... He gambled that much through a machine in hours.... He’s got the highest level of membership card at a lot of these [casino] hotels. If a lot of these hotels say they don’t know Steve, they’re lying."
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Paddock remembered his brother as a man who used his money to take care of his family financially. "He helped make me and my family wealthy. I mean, he’s the reason I was able to retire three years ago when I got really burned out doing the job I did," Eric Paddock said.
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"He didn’t have a lot of friends," Paddock continued. "He was a private person. There’s a story about that he’s, ‘ohhhh, he kept his shades closed, and he didn’t talk to me for the first three times he saw me walking in the neighborhood.’ Wow. That makes him really weird, doesn’t it? He was a private guy. That’s why you can’t find out anything about him, that’s why there’s no pictures. Is he such a weirdo because he didn’t have a Facebook page and posted 50,000 damn pictures of himself every day? Who’s weird?"
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But, of his brother's attack, Paddock said: "This is 100% Steve, did this by himself. People can’t seem to cope with that either. But Steve is a — was a — highly intelligent, highly successful person. He could have done anything he wanted to do. And he did. He made himself wealthy. He made us wealthy. He was a very successful person. He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it mathematically."
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That’s true.
“I don’t know anything about video slots poker, but my bro constantly won playing poker with people at the table with him.”
Sure, playing the other people is a big part of it. Another part is playing with one deck at a time, so you can do rough calculations of your chances of drawing particular cards.
On a machine, it would be simple to govern the payout just as they do with slots. You’ll never catch a machine that is dealing from the bottom of the deck.
“attendees included Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Obama.”
How much tin foil is required to surmise that Lollapalooza was the original target, but when it was discovered that the child was attending, an urgent “cancel operation” was issued?
I’ve also heard that you are not likely to lose very much money playing video poker, and there are a number of supposed strategies you can use to better your odds of actually winning some big money.
Exactly. This guy was greedy. I think he sought out Al Qaida for the money. Just the money. His brother was bragging about the wealth. I bet this guy was given millions to do it, years ago. In return, with a promise to torture him and his family if he didn’t come through when they called. They called and he pulled the trigger. If true, I bet people know.
No it is not. Ex-casino industry speaking here.
Could have made video so his handlers and accomplices inside/outside of US could watch proceedings in real time.
Sounds like the best pride money can buy.
So, he made a fortune secretly counting cards at the blackjack tables?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3592652/posts
...Prosecutors said that Al Bahnasawy also communicated with an undercover agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer about wanting to “shoot up concerts cuz they kill lots of people.”
Think about it. Looks like Paddock was identified as an agent by the peace-loving muzzies and the Mandalay Bay event was his death warrant. There were 59 victims.
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