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For politicians,
like our State Senator up there...
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everything was on the house.
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These guys won their comped life
when they got elected.
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Why not take advantage of it?
:18:19
Still, the politicians came cheap.
We could handle them.
:18:23
It's a whale, like K.K. Ichikawa...
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who plays $30, 000 a hand in baccarat.
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That's the one you really gotta watch.
:18:29
He plays fast and big.
He has the cash and the credit...
:18:32
to turn out your lights.
:18:34
A year ago he cleaned out a couple
of casinos in the Cayman Islands.
:18:38
Downstairs he takes us for $2 million...
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and upstairs he takes free soap,
shampoo and towels.
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Another billionaire cheapskate
who loved his free rooms...
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free private jets
and $2 million of our money.
:18:52
But we got him back.
:18:53
I had our pilot tell him
the plane was on the fritz.
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ICHlKAWA: What went wrong?
BlLLY: I'm awfully sorry.
:18:59
These mechanical things happen.
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Better here than up there.
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SAM: Then he missed the flights
connecting with Japan.
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I can't believe there's no room.
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SAM: We got him back with
a whole floor of rooms to himself.
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-Sorry you missed your plane.
-You'd like some of my money back.
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Oh, no. No gambling.
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[Upbeat R&B music]
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SAM: And once he was back,
he played small.
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He bet $1,000 a hand,
instead of his usual $30,000 a hand.
:19:36
But I knew the trick
with whales like Ichikawa...
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was that they can't bet small for long.
:19:41
He didn't think of it as winning $10, 000...
:19:44
he thought of it as losing $90, 000.
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So, he upped his bets.
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Until he dropped his winnings back
and gave up $1 million of his own cash.
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In a casino, the cardinal rule
is to keep them playing...