Posted on 10/05/2017 6:22:13 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
"We’re wealthy people," Eric Paddock said. "$100,000 isn’t that much money.... He gambled that much through a machine in hours.... He’s got the highest level of membership card at a lot of these [casino] hotels. If a lot of these hotels say they don’t know Steve, they’re lying."
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Paddock remembered his brother as a man who used his money to take care of his family financially. "He helped make me and my family wealthy. I mean, he’s the reason I was able to retire three years ago when I got really burned out doing the job I did," Eric Paddock said.
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"He didn’t have a lot of friends," Paddock continued. "He was a private person. There’s a story about that he’s, ‘ohhhh, he kept his shades closed, and he didn’t talk to me for the first three times he saw me walking in the neighborhood.’ Wow. That makes him really weird, doesn’t it? He was a private guy. That’s why you can’t find out anything about him, that’s why there’s no pictures. Is he such a weirdo because he didn’t have a Facebook page and posted 50,000 damn pictures of himself every day? Who’s weird?"
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But, of his brother's attack, Paddock said: "This is 100% Steve, did this by himself. People can’t seem to cope with that either. But Steve is a — was a — highly intelligent, highly successful person. He could have done anything he wanted to do. And he did. He made himself wealthy. He made us wealthy. He was a very successful person. He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it mathematically."
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that brother should be thrown in jail just for being an ass...
That’s so true.
That guy was truly a stand up person.
These Paddocks seem to be tainted by their father’s talent for BS.
As someone said, if you bring in $100,000 questionable money and launder it through the slots and walk out with $70,000 in taxable “winnings” on a 1099, the casinos aren’t going to say a word.
How in the hell is video poker “mathematic”?
Most machines are set up 60/40 some 55/45. 60 or 55 for the house 40 or 45 for the player. But and this is the key, machines like to pay out big. So if you know when one is about to hit, your odds are very much improved.
Of course we still don’t know where the money came from.
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Nope. A person can’t win against a casino playing their games over an extended period of time. It’s rigged.
“If he is connected to some type or cartel he may have know the entire roof was about to come down around them. MOB — whore houses. Who knows what he was involved with — it certainly wasn’t just real estate!”
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If he was scoping other spots elsewhere, it probably wasn’t entirely Vegas-focused. Seems he was looking to hit any large gathering - to me that points a lot toward terrorist motivation of one stripe or another.
I would be hiding in my house - avoiding reporters & issuing written statements of condolences through a representative.
“Probably——I just assume they are everyplace these days.”
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Yup, I would expect them in any govt building, inc libraries.
They are thick as thieves.
Not the last time I used it.
That would be Bruce Paddock, and it was 10 years. Bruce was probably wise to avoid a long and insightful interview, as are most relatives of mass killers, because of the torrents of abuse that will come their way. What strangers don't understand is that while their only knowledge of psychopathic killers is through their unfortunate acts, their siblings will have different experiences.
To Hitler's mother, Adolf was a mama's boy, caring to a fault, so much so that he allowed his mother's Jewish oncologist to emigrate despite his exterminationist policies vis-a-vis the rest of German Jewry. To his nephew who eventually settled on Long Island, he was the absent-minded uncle who gave him a high post in the German government. This kind of incident is doubly tough on their loved ones because of the abuse from other sources and the loss of a dear relative of whom they only saw the positive side along with the happy memories thereof.
I think these interviews are great, because they provide a portrait of the man that goes beyond Hannibal Lecter caricatures. Paddock is unusual among mass killers in being a resourceful and successful man. It would be interesting to find out what motivated his final actions.
“So if you know when one is about to hit, your odds are very much improved.”
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You got any inside skinny on how to know when they’re primed to cough up major coin? (I won’t tell anybody else)
:D
Every game in Vegas, when you bet against casino, is based on math. Once worked with a professor at UNLV for a day. Back when UNLV was surrounded by dirt fields. He actually ran the math for some casinos as a side job. It is how you calculate proper pay outs. All based on odds.
Then you have a very lax library.
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“I think these interviews are great, because they provide a portrait of the man that goes beyond Hannibal Lecter caricatures.”
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Besides that he could unwittingly give up some helpful info. Sometimes you just let a fool just keep on talking until he talks himself behind bars. LE’s gotta love guys like this.
Knowing numbers is not going to help you beat these machines. If you are consistently beating these machines, you will attract the attention of the Casino's security people pretty quickly, even if it's a small amount of money you win each time. If you are a regular, and they notice you are winning more than you are losing, they will start scrutinizing you.
If they can't figure out what you're doing, they will simply ban you.
It makes more sense that he was making his money some other way, and either gambling it to launder it, or just for fun.
Yeah, that’s because we’re normal people who wouldn’t ever be able to get over what our wretched brother did to those poor people and our family name. This guy not only seems to have gotten over it less than a week later, but is speaking in a complimentary about him like he was a normal guy who was just misunderstood.
Wow. Will keep an eye out for that story.
From what I have read about this guy he would not be classified as a psychopath.
What he was is suicidal.
This was a guy that was sickly lonely and he decided to end his loneliness.
He also hated the world and people for his loneliness.
So, he decided to kill as many of those people he hated before he died.
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