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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
just south of the stardust was the silver slipper. that place was a dive back then but had a good following. they cheated there and was closed down for a time for having loaded dice . i used to watch the bj dealers deal seconds to the higher players. it got torn down in the 70's some time.
That is the first time I've ever heard of a casino being closed down for cheating. Do you know of any others. I doubt if casino cheating is as big now as I've heard it was back then but with the bad economy who knows. I read somewhere that there are some people who cheat not because they need the money but because they simply enjoy the thrill of cheating. (kind of sad when you think about it).
And this Wiki article gives some more info about the Silver Slipper. It says it closed in 1988.
"Legend has it that he {Howard Hughes} purchased the casino because the lights from the rotating slipper bothered him. This was a time when Mr. Hughes feared for his safety, and because the toe of the slipper always stopped and faced the window of his Desert Inn penthouse before rotating again, he feared a camera could be planted in the toe either by the government or someone else. After several attempts at requesting that the slipper be turned off, Hughes purchased the casino, had the slipper filled with concrete and dismantled the rotating mechanism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Slipper
Last edited by Kevin B; 01-02-2011 at 08:07 PM.