{"id":11001,"date":"2020-10-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:05:58","slug":"how-to-bait-a-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/10\/how-to-bait-a-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Bait A Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/10\/casino-hosts-gambling-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sex, drugs and rare pooches: How casino hosts lure in big gamblers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/michael-kaplan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Kaplan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/drug7.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019d think it would be simple to drop millions of dollars at a casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But extracting that kind of dough tends to require a delicate dance between casino, player and host: the person charged with luring gamblers to bet big and lose big. It can involve private jets, exotic hotel suites, bottles of Cristal, Cuban cigars and pretty much anything the gambler wants. It\u2019s a perfect environment for squeezing out the massive losses that keep casino chandeliers burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/10\/casino-hosts-gambling-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post Sex, drugs and rare pooches: How casino hosts lure in big gamblers By\u00a0Michael Kaplan You\u2019d think it would be simple to drop millions of dollars at a casino. But extracting that kind of dough tends to require a delicate dance between casino, player and host: the person charged with luring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}