Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours.

When you love someone, you've gotta trust them.

Written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese. Who'd want to bother them? I mean, God forbid they should make a mistake and forget to steal.Ĭasino is a 1995 crime drama film that tells a tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.ĭirected by Martin Scorsese. They look busy, right? They're counting money. Now, notice how in the count room, nobody ever seems to see anything. I mean, to them, everything looked on the up-and-up, right? Wrong! The guys inside the counting room were all slipped in there to skim the joint dry. And the best part was that upstairs, the board of directors didn't know what the fuck was going on. They had so much fucking money in there, you could build a house outta stacks of $100 bills. Let me tell you something, partner: you ain't home, but that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the Governor.

You're all just our guests, but you act like you're at home. Rothstein, you people never will understand the way it works out here.

I knew about the holes in the desert, of course, and everywhere I looked, there could have been a hole. Meeting in the middle of the desert always made me nervous. I was so good that when I bet, I can change the odds for every bookmaker in the country. Before I ever ran a casino or got myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a hell of a handicapper, I can tell you that. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. And the eye in the sky is watching us all. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The pit bosses are watching the floormen. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. The longer they play, the more they lose.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back.

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