The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.