The real story
I believe quite some time ago on this board I told the story of Mr DH at the Trop.
Since that time Mr. DH has passed on but since these things are so rare I believe cardcounter is just kind of re-doing this "tale from the felt"
The big player here had a huge credit line at at least two Vegas casinos that I knew of. He was loud, drunk, liked to play on $10 tables, would abuse the dealers but then make $500-$1000 toke bets for them, he would tip and abuse other players, he would have money on up to 5 tables at a time, he would sometimes play 2 tables at once, and while perhaps losing $400,000 in a night $100,000 of it could land up in the toke boxes.
I witnessed him give some "lady?" a couple of thousand dollars to play and then when she lost that she just grabbed a couple of yellow chips from his stack and was shortly taken by casino security.
He was the show. He would often put a bet of several thousand dollars under the bet of some $10 player and think he controled the hand but I believe regulations give control of the hand to the person in that seat and not to the person with the most money in the betting circle. What happened is about exactly what cardcounter said except for the money amount and a detail or two. He placed a $5000 bet under this woman's $10 bet, got a blackjack and she threatened to double down if he did not give her $1000.
He yelled screamed and cursed first at the dealer and then at the pit boss who came to sort things out (the floorman had already run for cover). Finally, the shift manager explained to him that it was her hand and he loudly cursed to lady as he gave her the grand and she went straight to the cage.
The largest tip (I have never worked for tips) I ever received was from this player.
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