Hal Jordan: The Other Shoe Dropped

[Moose]

... if I want to get hustled for tips by dealers whose lives apparently hung in the balance?

I mean, I'd hang out with the bums, but unlike the 'Shoe dealers, the bums had tact.

I'm sorry, Parker, but I've had one bad experience too many. Good riddance, I sadly say, to the Shoe. But save the WSOP!

M.

[Hal Jordan]

This link has a pretty cool story for those interested in the last moments of an era:

http://members.aol.com/mikepaulle/lastshoe.html

HJ

[Moose]

From the above article:

> Each player put $10 into the pot as a toke for the dealers and got the last hand dealt face up.

Why doesn't that surprise me? The last poker pot at the Horseshoe contained an infinitely higher tip for the dealer than the players could win. I wonder whose idea that was?

At last, those greedy tip-hustling pigs at the Shoe were satisfied with the percentage of the gambling action (100) that went to the crew.

The fact that the casino closed down immediately after that hand is, of course, completely appropriate.

Moose.