A Nebraska businessman sold his company for $500 MILLION, got bored, and walked into a casino. In one year he lost $127 MILLION. The casino kept giving him vodka and painkillers in a candy box to keep him at the table. He sued them for it. They fined the casino $225,000.
– Terrance Watanabe spent 25 years building Oriental Trading Company
– His family's party-favor import business in Omaha, Nebraska, into one of the largest mail-order retailers in America.
– In 2000 he sold it. His net worth was around $500 MILLION.
– Then he had nothing to do.
– He discovered a Harrah's casino across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Started going to pass the time.
– By 2005 he was flying to Las Vegas regularly. By 2006, he was living there full-time.
– Steve Wynn noticed him at the Wynn casino and called him into a private meeting.
– He could see that Watanabe was a compulsive gambler and an alcoholic.
– He banned him from the property not wanting to violate Nevada law, which prohibits casinos from letting visibly intoxicated people gamble.
– Harrah's called him the same week. They offered $12,500 a month in airfare, Rolling Stones tickets, $500,000 in gift store credit, and 15% cash back on any table losses over $500,000.
– They gave him a free three-bedroom suite at Caesars Palace and he accepted.
– 2007 Terrance Watanabe bet $825 MILLION across Caesars Palace and The Rio.
– The largest amount ever wagered by a single individual in Las Vegas history.
– He lost $127 MILLION of it. One man generated 5.6% of Harrah's entire Las Vegas gambling revenue that year.
– Casino staff kept him supplied with his preferred vodka at all times.
– When he became addicted to prescription painkillers, staff delivered Lortabs to him at the table hidden inside boxes of candy.
– He sometimes played for 24 hours straight and once lost $5 MILLION in a single day.
– At one point he played three blackjack hands simultaneously at $50,000 per hand.
– His sister showed up at Thanksgiving 2007 and had no idea what had happened. She took him home to Nebraska. He went to rehab.
– When the lawyers started tallying the losses, the real number wasn't $127 million. After Harrah's was forced to hand over their internal records, it came to $204 MILLION.
– He sued Harrah's for $20 MILLION, claiming they had kept him intoxicated to keep him gambling. The Nevada Gaming Control Board opened its own investigation.
– The casino was fined $225,000 for allowing him to gamble while visibly intoxicated.
All criminal charges against Watanabe were dropped as part of a global settlement. The terms were confidential.
Ayer, Alemania-Paraguay: Balbuena entra en el 120' solo para tirar el penalti. Falla. Paraguay elimina a Alemania.
Algo pasa pero no sabemos qué.
Llevo registrados los penaltis de tandas (Mundiales desde 2014, Eurocopas desde 2016) tirados por jugadores que entraron en la 2ª parte de la prórroga: 25 casos, 56% de gol — por debajo del 69% medio de las tandas. El de ayer es el 26.
Pero si entran es porque son mejores que otros compañeros tirando. ¿Por qué fallan más? ¿Tensión?
¿Quién no recuerda a Zaza? Entró en el 120' solo para chutar, estuvo más tiempo de carrerilla que jugando el partido... y la mandó a las nubes.
Crowd in Gaborone goes WILD watching Botswana run just .18s away from the world record to win the men's 4x400m! 🇧🇼❤️ #WorldRelays
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Las búsquedas en Google de "regalo de navidad para mi esposo" llegan a un máximo el 17 de diciembre, mientras que "regalo de navidad para mi esposa" el 23 de Diciembre
Different champions since 2000:
MLB: 16
NHL: 14
NFL: 13
NBA: 12
Major League Baseball has actually had the MOST PARITY across all four major leagues since 2000
They're also the only league with no repeat champion in the last 25 years as well
SINISTER es elegida una vez más como 'la película más aterradora de todos los tiempos' según un estudio científico realizado midiendo la frecuencia cardíaca. En el top diez también está HOST, HEREDITARY, SMILE y THE CONJURING. La lista al completo: https://t.co/OIwmegc1Fj
Este es el río Chicago. Un río que, además de vertebrar el centro de la ciudad, presume de una rareza única en el mundo: CORRE AL REVÉS. Es decir, fluye en sentido contrario al que debería. No desemboca en el lago Michigan, sino que, al contrario, nace de él.
¿Por qué? Porque le dieron la vuelta. Hasta mediados del siglo XIX, el río desembocaba en el lago, pero no solo llevaba agua limpia: también arrastraba las aguas sucias de la ciudad, las de los inodoros y las primeras industrias. Y como la ciudad bebía a su vez de ese mismo lago, el resultado era obvio: un cóctel de enfermedades y varios brotes de cólera bastante serios.
Así que, a mediados del XIX, Chicago decidió lo impensable: invertir el curso de su propio río. Y lo hizo con una obra de ingeniería monumental. Construyeron cauces artificiales con un lecho más profundo que el natural, levantaron diques y presas, y obligaron al agua a encontrar su nuevo camino. Desde entonces el río Chicago corre en dirección contraria.
Como se nota cuando un actor es querido. Aquí el momento en el que Stephen Graham gana el Emmy por su actuación en Adolescence y toda la gente que se lanza a felicitarlo
Es uno de los grandes