Don Ward: This is not the way to treat people.

Ace Rothstein: I'll regret it even more if I keep you on.

Get your ass and get your things and get out of here. I've been carrying your ass in this place ever since I got here.

Ace Rothstein: Listen, you fuckin' yokel, I've had it with you.

Don Ward: I really think you're overreacting.

Ace Rothstein: Wait! You didn't see that you were being set up on the second win?.

The probability of one four-reel machine is a million and a half to one the probability of three machines in a row it's in the billions! It cannot happen, would not happen, you fuckin' momo! What's the matter with you? Didn't you see you were being set up on the second win? Now you're insulting my intelligence what you think I am, a fuckin' idiot? You know goddamn well that someone had to get into those machines and set those fuckin' reels.

Ace Rothstein: Ward, you're pissing me off.

Don Ward: Well, it's a casino! People gotta win sometimes.

Ace Rothstein: Yes there is! An infallible way, they won!.

Don Ward: Well, there's no way to determine that.

Ace Rothstein: You didn't see the scam? You didn't see what was going on?.

Don Ward: Well, it happened so quick, 3 guys won I didn't have a chance.

Ace Rothstein: Three fuckin' jackpots in 20 minutes? Why didn't you pull the machines? Why didn't you call me?.

Don Ward: Shoot, it's gotta be in the millions, maybe more.

Ace Rothstein: Four reels, sevens across on three $15,000 jackpots.

And why mess up a good thing? And that's that. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started.

And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.

Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Ace Rothstein: The town will never be the same.

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