Casino workers of Las Vegas, what are some of the craziest moments you've witnessed/experienced with your customers?

1. This is a second hand story from a lovely lady who was a dealer in Vegas in one of the crappy casinos on Freemont Street. She was dealing at a blackjack table where you can do one of those crazy side bet things on certain rare hand combinations to get a bonus jackpot. Anyways one guy hit it and won 35 grand. This was a big deal and he grabbed his cards off the table to show his friends and the Casino invalidated the play because apparently that was against the rules. Anyways he did not get his winnings and was escorted out crying. Seemed unfair to me.
   — IntrepidusX


2. The other famous Kerry Packer story was he was at a table with some wealthy Texan who was complaining about Packer’s preferential treatment. He said to Packer “I’m worth $70 million!”, and Packer just looked at him and said “I’ll toss you for it”. The guy had big, brass balls, that’s for sure.
   — upforgrabs21


3. Given I'm not a casino worker in Las Vegas, I really can only chime in with other stories, so I'll stick with one I read in an obituary for Australian billionaire Kerry Packer. Packer was renowned for spending big at the tables, and for his generosity. During one trip, he had a table to himself and started talking to the dealer. Eventually she mentioned that she was struggling to pay her mortgage and feed her family. Packer then decided to tip her a massive amount of money, but the dealer refused (even though she was grateful). Packer asked why, and the dealer said it was because all tips had to be shared with the dealer pool, and that his money would be going to other dealers. Packer stopped her, and said "get your manager over here". She tried to interject, but he reiterated that she needed to get her manager. The manager turned up and Packer said "fire this woman immediately". Being the whale that he was, the dealer was fired on the spot. Packer then turned to the dealer and said "now you don't have to share this with the other dealers", and gave her the full tip. She accepted (obviously). Packer turned to the manager and then said "hire this woman immediately". She was hired right away, and got to keep the entire tip.
   — upforgrabs21






4. I didn't work in Las Vegas, but a casino in Oklahoma. The craziest story was a man brought a backpack full of money to my window. Crazy amounts of money. He requested 25K of twenties to be exchanged for hundred dollar bills. This happens quite a bit, but 25K was *way* over the limit of what was acceptable to do without proper paperwork, so I requested his ID. All I needed it for was to type him into the system that checks to make sure he isn't evading taxes. But the ID he gave me *definitely* wasn't him, unless he had Bejamin Button disease. The guy in the ID was in his 70's, IIRC, and the guy in my window was maybe in his late twenties, early thirties. This is grounds to call my supervisor and fill out even *worse* paperwork, that we send to authorities, also IIRC, the secret service. I had scanned the ID he gave me, and when my manager got there, she told him pretty much "obviously this isn't you." And he apologized, said he had grabbed his grandpa's ID instead of his own, his was in his car. Took his backpack, still with some money inside, left, and never came back. We just had 25K in twenties that remained in out vault until we got the report back from SS (or whoever it was sent to, I still can't remember) that said homeboy *murdered* the man in the ID, buried him in his own backyard, and robbed him. Minor stories also include: the poker players who come to the tournaments and piss in the hallways because they lose. Happens every year. One even shit and smeared it all over one of the elevator walls. The guy who shoved three thousand dollars in my tip box (as a joke, until he dropped it and caused a scene) because he said he'd give it to me if I'd sleep with him. (I didn't get to keep it :( but he was kicked out for being vulgar and rude.) Some teenager stole a woman's purse on the floor and was chased around the casino by our guards for a good 10 minutes before a guest just stuck his leg out and tripped him. He was bleeding as he was cuffed and they called tribal police to come take him away.
   — nosidamadison


5. Oh my God, where do I begin......I've seen a man inject himself in the leg with insulin, and then leave the syringe sticking out of his leg for an hour because he won a jackpot when he injected himself so therefore it must be a lucky charm. I have seen people piss and shit themselves because they didn't want to leave the table/slot machine. I've seen people pass out after having sat chain smoking at a slot machine for 36 hours straight, and I've seen other customers get mad because the paramedics interrupted their winning streak. And I've seen a man die of a heart attack at a poker table, and then watched as the rest of the players try to steal his winnings before security could get there.
   — devatoo


6. I work in a casino in Canada. It's a pretty big Casino but nothing big ever really happens. A guy tipped me three Grand once which was nice. Oh when I was a slot attendant we were told that we weren't allowed to let customers sleep on the slot machines because it's irresponsible gaming or something. I was walking around once and saw an old lady sleeping so I tried to wake her up. I guess she was dead, it was a weird shift.
   — slytherintoamerica






7. Many years ago I worked at a casino that is on the Idaho/Nevada border. New Year's Eve was always the craziest day of the year. The owner threw a giant party for all his high rollers, so there were no rooms available at the hotel (I worked the hotel front desk). Tons of other people, however, would show up and attempt all sorts of bribery, trickery, and outright threats to hotel staff to get a room. The casino would be a tightly packed wall of bodies, and it would take forever to wade through it. The one New Year's Eve I worked, we had an elderly man die at a slot machine. Nobody noticed for a while, he simply slumped over in his chair with a bucket of quarters in his lap. Eventually, some woman wanted his slot machine and tried to rouse him before realizing he was dead. She panicked and began screaming. This kind of freakout is contagious, so other people around her started freaking out, but the place was so crowded people couldn't get away. It took hours for security to make it over to this area, figure out what was wrong, calm people down, and get the body out of there. The EMTs and cops eventually had to strap him to a stretcher and lift him over their heads to carry him out over the throng of people. One time (not on New Year's Eve) we had a couple come in and check into the hotel with a stolen credit card. It didn't flag as stolen at first, so we had no idea anything was amiss. Then the cops from Wells showed up looking for them. They had me page the name on the card, which was female. When that didn't bring anybody forward, they had me page a man's name. A woman came forward hesitantly, and when she saw the cops, she dropped her tub of quarters and began wailing and crying. The cops handcuffed her while she sobbed, and we stood behind the counter at the front desk watching this. They had us page the guy's name again. At this point, the dude decided to make a run for it. He went tearing through the casino, leaping over tables and shit, with detectives chasing him. He ran past the front desk and tried to get out of the casino but ended up slamming face-first into one the huge glass doors at the front entrance. It literally knocked him out cold. He slumped to the ground, leaving streaks of blood on the glass from breaking his nose. It turned out this guy had broken into some old lady's house, then beat her up and terrorized her for a while before taking off with her purse. She had lain there all night before someone found her. Once he had her purse, he decided to take his girlfriend gambling.
   — a_bitch_on_a_mission


8. I posted this once upon a time on another account, and it happened 10+ years ago at this point: I worked at the front desk, my sister worked in Housekeeping. She was assigned to clean one of the high end suites.... The guests had left behind empty orange soda cans, like cases and cases worth, and dildos. Dildos everywhere. The room had been booked by a single, middle aged woman that seemed normal enough. (Except she drank straight crème de menthe and had a perma green tongue, it HAD to be the green kind) I can only assume whatever happened was filmed, so if anyone sees an amateur porn featuring a hot tub filled with orange soda, please please please share.
   — Ishtizzle


9. I heard this from a bartender in the casino at the LV Hilton. There was a couple playing the progressive slot machine where you can play 3 lines at once by paying triple. (Essentially let’s you gamble faster). Well the husband goes to the bathroom and the wife takes over the machine and hits the button for “Play 1 Line” instead of “pay 3 lines” The jackpot combo (triple 7’s or whatever) comes up on the top line meaning the didn’t win the $200k progression because she only played one line. Husband comes back and she shows him. This was 20-30 years ago so $200k was a lot of money back then. Husband proceeds to beat the shot out of the wife right on the casino floor. He ended up being arrested.
   — JohnnyTT314