Casinos are hotbeds for glitzy and glamorous guests. They also attract thieves and con artists and scammers who would rather rig the games in their favor than play it straight.
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Con Artist Lester Diamond is a supporting antagonist of the 1995 crime film Casino. He was portrayed by veteran actor James Woods, who also portrayed Hades, George Sheffield, Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz, Ned Trent, Owlman, and Byron De La Beckwith. The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. His ex-hustler wife Ginger (Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond. Four con artists ripped off 64,000 euros (about $88,000) from poker tables at Les Princes Casino in Cannes, France in 2011. In this scenario, all a con artist needs to do is offer the goods, services or solutions that most of the world is hoping for. Casino.org is the world's leading independent online gaming.
Some of these crooks are so elaborate in their schemes that one can't help but be impressed with the lengths they take to pilfer a casino's coffers. Sometimes, some have argued, they're not even crooks. From magnetic roulette balls to card counting to manufacturing slot-cracking tools, these are some of the more interesting ways that people have tried — and sometimes did — to extract money from casinos.
EXT. RESTAURANTPARKING LOT, LAS VEGAS, 1983 - DAY
SAM 'ACE' ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculatelydressed man
approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn
on the ignition.
ACE (V.O.)
When you love someone, you've gotta
trust them. There's no other way.
You've got to give them the key to
everything that's yours. Otherwise,
what's the point? And, for a while..
I believed that's the kind of love I
had.
Suddenly, the car explodes. Flames, smoke and metal rise
into the sky covering the view of the Las Vegascasinos and
their signs.
Music in:
J.S. Bach - 'St Matthew Passion'.
Ace's body comesflying in - extreme slow motion. His body
twists and turnsthrough the frame like a soul about to tumble
into the flames of damnation.
MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
INT. TANGIERSCASINOFLOOR - NIGHT
Vignette of ACEthroughrippling flames, we move in on ACE
ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.
ACE (V.O.)
Before I ever ran a casino or got
myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a
hell of a handicapper, I can tell
you that. I was so good, that whenever
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I bet, I couldchange the odds for
every bookmaker in the country. I'm
serious. I had it down so cold that
I was givenparadise on earth. I was
given one of the biggestcasinos in
Con Artist Lester Diamond is a supporting antagonist of the 1995 crime film Casino. He was portrayed by veteran actor James Woods, who also portrayed Hades, George Sheffield, Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz, Ned Trent, Owlman, and Byron De La Beckwith. The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. His ex-hustler wife Ginger (Sharon Stone), her con-artist ex Lester Diamond. Four con artists ripped off 64,000 euros (about $88,000) from poker tables at Les Princes Casino in Cannes, France in 2011. In this scenario, all a con artist needs to do is offer the goods, services or solutions that most of the world is hoping for. Casino.org is the world's leading independent online gaming.
Some of these crooks are so elaborate in their schemes that one can't help but be impressed with the lengths they take to pilfer a casino's coffers. Sometimes, some have argued, they're not even crooks. From magnetic roulette balls to card counting to manufacturing slot-cracking tools, these are some of the more interesting ways that people have tried — and sometimes did — to extract money from casinos.
EXT. RESTAURANTPARKING LOT, LAS VEGAS, 1983 - DAY
SAM 'ACE' ROTHSTEIN, a tall, lean, immaculatelydressed man
approaches his car, opens the door, and gets inside to turn
on the ignition.
ACE (V.O.)
When you love someone, you've gotta
trust them. There's no other way.
You've got to give them the key to
everything that's yours. Otherwise,
what's the point? And, for a while..
I believed that's the kind of love I
had.
Suddenly, the car explodes. Flames, smoke and metal rise
into the sky covering the view of the Las Vegascasinos and
their signs.
Music in:
J.S. Bach - 'St Matthew Passion'.
Ace's body comesflying in - extreme slow motion. His body
twists and turnsthrough the frame like a soul about to tumble
into the flames of damnation.
MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE.
INT. TANGIERSCASINOFLOOR - NIGHT
Vignette of ACEthroughrippling flames, we move in on ACE
ROTHSTEIN overseeing the casino. He lights a cigarette.
ACE (V.O.)
Before I ever ran a casino or got
myself blown up, Ace Rothstein was a
hell of a handicapper, I can tell
you that. I was so good, that whenever
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I bet, I couldchange the odds for
every bookmaker in the country. I'm
serious. I had it down so cold that
I was givenparadise on earth. I was
given one of the biggestcasinos in
Las Vegas to run, the Tangiers..
INT. SANMARINOITALIAN GROCERY/BACK ROOM, KANSASCITY -
NIGHT:
Vignette of MOBBOSSESsitting at a tablesurrounded by food
and wine like the gods of Olympus.
ACE (V.O.)
..by the only kind of guys that can
actually get you that kind of money:
sixty-two million, seven-hundred
thousand dollars. I don't know all
the details.
NICKY (V.O.)
Matter of fact..
INT. BAR, LASVEGAS - NIGHT
Vignette of NICKYSANTOROstanding at a bar with DOMINICK
SANTORO, his brother, and FRANK MARINO, his right-hand man.
NICKY (V.O.)
..nobody knew all the details, but
it should'a been perfect. I mean, he
had me, Nicky Santoro, his best
friend, watching his ass..
INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT
Vignette of GINGERMCKENNA a dazzling thirty-one-year-old
blonde seated by a smallfiery pool.
NICKY (V.O.)
..and he had Ginger, the woman he
loved, on his arm. But in the end..
INT. TANGIERS SPORTSBOOK/ACE'S OFFICE - NIGHT
Casino Con Artist
ACE looks over the casino he rules.
NICKY (V.O.)
..we fucked it all up. It should'a
Casino Con Artist Movie
been so sweet, too. But it turned
out to be the last time that street
guys like us were ever given anything
that fuckin' valuable again.
EXT. LASVEGAS - NIGHT
Aerial shot coming down out of the clouds over the brightly
lit VegasStrip and off into the blackness of the desert
night.
ACE (V.O.)
At that time, Vegas was a place where
millions of suckers flew in every
year on their own nickel, and left
behind about a billion dollars. But
at night, you couldn't see the desert
that surrounds Las Vegas..
EXT. DESERT - DAWN
Casino Con Artista
Aerial shot swoopingalong the desert floor, then rising
above the mist to revealmountains in the distance.
ACE (V.O.)
But it's in the desertwhere lots of
the town's problems are solved.
