He was a high-stakes gambler recognized in the casinos of Nevada.
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Paddock was known as a high-stakes gambler who often visited Las Vegas casinos.
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Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant, was a substantial high-stakes gambler and had no criminal history.
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Investigators remain largely in the dark about what drove Paddock, a retired real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, on Oct.
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Eventually Sun recruited the celebrity poker pro Phil Ivey, who is also known as a high-stakes gambler at craps and baccarat.
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In October one, the reclusive high-stakes gambler opened fire on the popular outdoor music festival from the 32nd floor of that resort.
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I would forgo my option to win $220 from my $10 bet (I'm not exactly a high-stakes gambler) and walk away with $147.
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A high-stakes gambler living in Nevada climbed to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 1.
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A high-stakes gambler whose last known full-time employment was 30 years ago, Mr. Paddock, 64, lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nev.
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Here's sports reporter Holly Sonders hittin' the strip club with notorious high-stakes gambler Vegas Dave ... begging the question -- you guys a couple or what?!
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Sports reporter Holly Sonders and high-stakes gambler Vegas Dave have only been dating for 1 WEEK ... and they're already dropping L-bombs and talking marriage!
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From her years as a losing high-stakes gambler, she knew that casino executives will accommodate even outlandish requests from customers who wager huge sums of money.
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The security official tells PEOPLE the shooter, 64-year-old real estate investor and high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock, likely spent weeks if not months planning Sunday's deadly attack.
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Authorities say Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, had amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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On October 1, 2017, a reclusive high-stakes gambler named Stephen Paddock opened fire on the popular outdoor music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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This is the road after Las Vegas, after a high-stakes gambler named Stephen Paddock hauled powerful weapons into a gilded casino and opened fire on a country music festival below.
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The Las Vegas police determined that Stephen Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, had carried an arsenal into the Mandalay Bay hotel and opened fire from a window high above the concert.
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Mr. Paddock, 64, a high-stakes gambler, spent days carrying an arsenal of guns into the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino across the street from the festival, before randomly shooting concertgoers below.
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Eric Paddock says his brother was a high-stakes gambler, real estate investor and former accountant who gave family members no inkling whether he might have been financially troubled, according to the Post.
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Lombardo said he is "absolutely" confident authorities will find out what set off Paddock, a 19703 year-old high-stakes gambler and retired accountant who killed himself before police stormed his 32nd-floor room.
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Law enforcement officials were searching for clues Wednesday surrounding Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old retired accountant and high-stakes gambler, who killed at least 58 people and left 527 others injured before killing himself.
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Police and the FBI have said they believe former accountant and high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock acted alone to amass an arsenal of weapons in his Mandalay Bay suite before opening fire into the concert crowd below.
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A preliminary police report released in January said Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler, researched police SWAT tactics, rented hotel rooms overlooking other outdoor concerts and investigated potential targets in at least four U.S. cities.
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Last October, a retired real estate investor and high-stakes gambler used multiple assault rifles equipped with bump stocks to kill 58 people at a Las Vegas outdoor concert, the deadliest attack by a single gunman in U.S. history.
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With those revelations, police announced they were closing their 222-month investigation without a definitive answer for why Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, amassed an arsenal of weapons and carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Although police have not determined a motive for the killing, investigators learned that Paddock was a retiree, a former accountant and high-stakes gambler whose father was a notorious, "psychopathic" bank robber who spent nearly eight years on the FBI's most-wanted list.
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Authorities say Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, had amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines in his room where he broke the windows and fired into the crowd.
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Authorities say Stephen Paddock, 64, a real estate investor and high-stakes gambler, amassed an arsenal of nearly two dozen assault-style rifles and numerous high-capacity ammunition magazines in the hotel suite where he broke the windows and opened fire on the concert crowd.
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Stephen Paddock — the gunman who authorities say opened fired on concertgoers in Las Vegas on Sunday night, killing at least 29488 people and wounding more than 21 others — was a high-stakes gambler who owned homes in four states but often spent his time in casino hotels.
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Records seen to date have not provided a motive for Stephen Paddock, a retired accountant and high-stakes gambler, to amass an arsenal of assault-style weapons and unleash a deadly barrage into a crowd of 22,000 people attending a Route 91 Harvest Festival country music concert.
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The man police say fired from a Las Vegas hotel window into an outside crowd of 22,22015 concertgoers Sunday night, killing at least 21 and wounding at least 2800, was a retiree, a former accountant and high-stakes gambler with no known motive for the attack.
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Gunman Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler and real estate investor, had lost a "significant amount of wealth" since September 2015, which led to "bouts of depression," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview this week with Las Vegas news station KLAS-TV.
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He was racehorse owner and event attendee. His jockeys' racing silks were deep red with a black cap. He had some society repute as a high-stakes gambler.
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He was a high-stakes gambler, playing a game involving shaking small stones inside of a gourd rattle, rather like dice, so his friends renamed him Gourd Rattler.Ontko, Gale. Thunder Over the Ochoco, Volume I: The Gathering Storm. Bend, OR: Maverick Publications, Inc., 1997.
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An example can be seen in the Martin Scorsese movie Casino in which Robert De Niro's character ensures that a high-stakes gambler continues to gamble to ensure that the money returns to the casino. On a smaller scale, casinos offer players free alcoholic drinks to encourage them to keep gambling.
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Forrest is well known as a competitive high- stakes gambler. He has been a key part of a consortium of poker players who pooled their money together to play Texas billionaire Andy Beal in a series of very high limit, heads-up, Texas hold 'em games, with limits ranging anywhere from $20,000/$40,000 to $100,000/$200,000.
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William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry KT (16 December 172423 December 1810) was a Scottish noble landowner. He was popularly known as Old Q and was reputed as a high-stakes gambler. In 1799 he was estimated the eighth- wealthiest man (or small family unit) in Britain, owning £1M (). He is one of ten known British millionaires that year, the Royal family excluded.
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A melodrama about a handsome man and a beautiful blind woman who doesn't believe in love. Oh Soo is an orphan who is left heartbroken after his first love dies. He leads a goal-less life as a high-stakes gambler with a 99.9% winning probability. Oh Young is a lonely heiress who is visually impaired and lives alone without family.
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Basset was the popular game at the time, and Gwyn was a frequent—and high-stakes—gambler. Gwyn returned to the stage again in late 1670, something Beauclerk calls an "extraordinary thing to do" for a mistress with a royal child. Her return was in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada, a two- part epic produced in December 1670 and January 1671. This may have been her last play; 1671 was almost certainly her last season.
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She was performing in a dodgy place called the Natchez Café, and he was so taken with her that he left his fiancée and law practice to elope with her to New Orleans. They lived a wild life of luxury for awhile until his money ran out. She left for another man, high-stakes gambler Mark Brady (Albert Dekker) to support her expensive lifestyle. George realizes that Lulu is bad news and leaves her.
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Brian Zembic, nicknamed the Wiz, born , is a magician and high-stakes gambler specializing in blackjack and backgammon. In the late 90s he became famed as 'a man who would do anything to win a bet'. His most famous wager was in 1996 when he agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000 (US$ in ). The year passed and he won the bet but he became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.
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Paddock was a high-stakes gambler who placed bets at a high enough level to earn valuable comps—free benefits such as rooms and meals. He was a familiar figure to casino hosts in Las Vegas, but was not well known among other high-stakes gamblers because he mostly played video poker. He reportedly kept to himself and was a heavy drinker. Paddock had lost a significant amount of his wealth over the previous two years, but had paid off all gambling debts before the shooting.
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The woman asks Corey what to do, and he advises her to do nothing to harm Steve, and just to wait. Corey slips into unconsciousness, and the woman disappears. After New Year's Day 1949, Corey is released from the hospital. He is immediately stopped by police detectives and then questioned by Captain Garcia (Ed Begley) of the Los Angeles Police, who tells him that Connolly is wanted for the murder of Solly Blayne (Richard Rober), a local high-stakes gambler and racketeer murdered at his home in Los Feliz.
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Arno told Connolly that he led a double-life as the high- stakes gambler "Lou Walsh," and proposed using Connolly's $40,000 to cheat Blayne out of tens of thousands of dollars at gambling to which Connolly agreed. Arno tells Connolly that Radoff realized that the brakes on her car work just fine, and that Connolly's injuries were no accident. She attempted to leave, but Walsh strangled her. Arno tells Corey he did not want to martyr Connolly for fear of losing Radoff's love, so he staged the accident.
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In 2003, it became publicly known that Bennett was a high- stakes gambler who lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas. Criticism increased in the wake of Bennett's publication, The Book of Virtues, a compilation of moral stories about courage, responsibility, friendship and other examples of virtue. Joshua Green of the Washington Monthly said that Bennett failed to denounce gambling because of his own tendency to gamble. However, Bennett and Empower America, the organization he co-founded and headed at the time, opposed an extension of casino gambling in the United States.
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Waddell was born in Springfield, Illinois, shortly before the American Civil War. Although raised in a respectable upper-middle-class family, he became known as a high-stakes gambler and was eventually cut off by his family before the age of 21. He arrived in 1880 in New York, where he offered the first gold brick ever offered for sale. This was part of his famed "gold brick" game in which the buyer, believing to be purchasing a gold brick from the U.S. Assayer's Office, was getting a lead bar with triple gold-plating and a rough finish with a small chunk of solid gold sunk in the middle.
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Anargyros Nicholas Karabourniotis (Greek: Ανάργυρος Καραβουρνιώτης, born November 1, 1950), commonly known as Archie Karas, is a Greek-American gambler, high roller, poker player, and pool shark famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in casino gambling history, simply known as The Run, when he drove to Las Vegas with $50 in December 1992 and then turned a $10,000 loan into more than $40 million by the beginning of 1995, only to lose it all later that year. Karas himself claims to have gambled with more money in casinos than anyone else in history and has often been compared to Nick the Greek, another high-stakes gambler of Greek origin.
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