Meeting in the middle of the desert always made me nervous. I was so good that when I bet, I can change the odds for every bookmaker in the country. Before I ever ran a casino or got myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a hell of a handicapper, I can tell you that. 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. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. And the eye in the sky is watching us all. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses.
The pit bosses are watching the floormen. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players.
In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. The longer they play, the more they lose. In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back.
