Double Or Nothing: How Two Friends Risked It All To Buy One Of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos - Plot & Excerpts
If you’re going to be David in an arena of Goliaths, you’d better have some rocks for your slingshot. We were no longer a niche company selling hotel rooms in Las Vegas. We were now a travel company competing in a global market against others run by giants like Microsoft, AOL, and American Airlines. We needed big-time cash. The $8 million dinner with The Captain in Baltimore was great. But now it was time to go to Wall Street. When I first traveled to New York City just out of college to catch the Big East basketball tournament with Tim, Uncle Jack, and their pals, they loved seeing my head swivel between skyscrapers so they could tease. “Get your head out of the clouds, ya hayseed!” But the reality is that Tim had had a similar sort of experience only a few years earlier. Once, during his college years, he took a trip to New York City with Lorenzo and Lorenzo’s mom. The Fertittas booked a hotel room for Tim where they were staying—although Tim insisted upon paying his own way.
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