Tales of Lady Luck
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Tales of Lady Luck are stories during my twenty-five years in the gaming business.
The opportunity I had in 1975 was enormous. There were no casinos on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, and nothing in Louisiana other than horse racing. The Louisiana lottery didn’t get voted in until sixteen years later. We had people hungry for gambling, and they came in droves once the word got out.
What I saw as I got into the business was the need for the little guy with maybe five hundred dollars to gamble with. So I developed programs that touched everyone, from the player with five hundred to the high roller with a hundred thousand dollars. Of course, the more you gambled, the more perks you got: large suites, better restaurants, and private jets. I had it all covered, and flew from eighteen cities, moving over twelve hundred people a month, and made a statement so big in Las Vegas that Nevada Gaming Control had me on their radar. Published in the Las Vegas Review was an article that my customers had left over sixty million dollars on the casino tables in two years.
Here are some topics my gaming clients found interesting when we would sit around a table in a cocktail lounge at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas or Harrah Lake Tahoe. They loved to hear the stories, and at times, they were part of the story. The problems, demands, and things that went wrong are just too crazy to dream up.
These stories are based on true events.
Vito Zuppardo, Sr
At an early age of 12 years old, he started his first entrepreneurial experience, and 50 years later he is still reinventing himself as a full-time writer. Vito Zuppardo published his first novel Making Losing Fun in 1998. It has been revised under the name “Alluring Lady Luck” and adapted to a movie script in 2015 that is under consideration. He is also the author of “True Blue Detective” published in 2015. A third book “Tales of Lady Luck” will be out June 2016. All his books can be found on Amazon.com. Born and raised in New Orleans he grew up in the suburb of Gentilly and was the third oldest of four children. Married on April 8, 1967, to his wife Diane they have two children, four grandchildren, and one step-grandchild. Retired in 2003 from 25 years in the casino business operating high limit gaming customers to various casinos around the world. He was an independent representative for some of the most prestige casinos in the world. Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Bahamas, Monte Carlo, Aruba, and even a cruise line hired him to produce high limit gaming customers. In 1988, Nevada Gaming Control said Vito Zuppardo was one of the most successful casino representatives in Nevada producing over 60 million dollars in revenue in three years. His main job was keeping his clients happy which was a full-time job while they were vacationing complimentary at luxury casino resorts. Vito started writing in 1986 after collecting pieces of information on each trip. It had taken about ten years before he was able to formulate information and find time for his first novel. Ask any family member or his school teachers to make a list of Vito Zuppardo’s career paths he may have taken and a Writer would not have made the list. It is his life adventures that make his books fun to read and his characters stand out. Life is truly what you make of it.
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