[matheist]

You know, it only just now occurs to me to wonder if the blackjack story is the public sanitized version of "how I got $24k because I'm not allowed to tell you the real version"

[askafriend]

Great thought, that seems very likely since so many "founder stories" are heavily spun tales.

[Analemma_]

Las Vegas still had deep mafia ties in the 1970s so that’s very possible.