How One Man Robbed Vegas' Biggest Casino and Almost Got Away

There's a story Tony Carleo likes to tell about a visit he made to Las Vegas a decade ago when he was in his early twenties. "I was sitting in a casino," he says, "and there was a crowd starting to gather around a craps table, people two or three deep because everyone wanted to see." A man was betting on hard eight, that the dice would land showing exactly four and four before he threw a seven or another combination that added up to eight. It was a long-shot bet, but the man hit it, then hit it again, his $5 turning into 50 then 500.
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