By Gary W. Sleeper
Humans comprehend of the infamous Benny Binion for establishing the Horseshoe and turning into the main profitable on line casino proprietor in Las Vegas. yet sooner than he grew to become the shopper saint of worldwide sequence Poker, Binion lead the Texas underground in a vicious, nefarious playing battle that lasted over fifteen years. With electrifying information and piquant variety, writer Gary Sleeper offers the formerly unseen info of Benny Binion's existence major as much as his notorious Las Vegas days, whilst he grew to become the landlord of the main profitable on line casino on this planet.
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He spent the largest part of the time in El Paso, a wild-and-woolly frontier town tailor-made for his style. With the coming of Prohibition in 1919, the scores of El Paso saloons, brothels, and gambling halls had simply moved across the Rio Grande to Mexico and continued with business as usual. Of course, there were always a few thirsty citizens who, for one reason or another, didn’t care to cross the border in search of refreshment, and a large-scale whiskey smuggling trade evolved along the border.
Sam had business at the Dallas National Bank, and Sue looked forward to a pleasant hour shopping at the Nieman-Marcus department store, just a few doors east of the bank. Neither of them saw any need for a bodyguard. At about twenty minutes past ten, Murray left his wife at the Nieman-Marcus entrance, promising to join her for lunch in an hour, and began his walk to the bank, located less than a block west at 1528 Main Street. Outside the department store, Murray met a casual acquaintance, a man named Charles Wilson,* and the two walked together, sharing a joke.
And it damn sure didn’t stop him from talking. He would talk about politics or rodeos or gambling or just about anything a person might care to talk about. 45 automatic tucked under his arm. “Vegas was safe in them days,” he would say. ” Or he might tell about the fabled poker game between Johnny Moss and Nick the Greek. “Spread the game for ’em right out there in the front of the casino. Damn game went on for almost four months. ” He loved the stories about gamblers and bootleggers and rounders and, when he felt good, he would tell stories about Dallas for hours.
