I just met an old friend and we chatted for a while... and then the subject turned to Vegas. He said he was leaving for Caesars in the morning, and then he asked me if I've been there. "A few times," I responded.
Then he said "oh, you must know ___________ because everyone knows the family. They're high rollers." My friend knows the family well.
Apparently big high rollers who get several rooms for their staff that accompany them.
No, I don't know them. (I don't travel in the super suite circle.) But my friend told me the story about how about six years ago one of the sons in the wealthy family dropped $17-million in one night playing roulette and baccarat and then that night killed himself in his room.
I had a lot of questions including, how do you lose $17 million in one night... and why would anyone who had $17 million to lose and came from a very wealthy family wouldn't want to keep living?
We all wonder from time to time about why most high rises in Vegas don't have balconies (some casino hotels that were originally intended as condos do have balconies) and why casino hotels have windows that can't be opened.
But there are other ways to stop gambling permanently besides jumping. But then there is always one more gamble -- are you going to heaven or hell?