Las Vegas Gunman Chased Gambling’s Payouts and Perks<br />“It was not a good thing because it would make other VIPs in the high-limit area uncomfortable.”<br />“One of my guests once said to me, ‘He really gives me the creeps.’”<br />At Mandalay Bay, Mr. Paddock played the video poker machines located in a relatively quiet room<br />labeled “High Limit Slots,” set aside from the jangly machines on the vast casino floor.<br />But placing bets of $100 or more in video poker, “this guy was gambling high,” said Anthony Curtis, a former professional gambler<br />and currently the owner and publisher of Las Vegas Advisor, a website covering the casino business.<br />“From all of my discussion with my colleagues it appears Paddock existed in our<br />casino as he did in his neighborhood: as someone not well known by anyone.”<br />He was better known around a few high-limit rooms of the Las Vegas Strip, including at Mandalay Bay and the Wynn Las Vegas.<br />“Not a lot of smiles and friendliness,” said John Weinreich, who was an executive casino host at the Atlantis<br />Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nev., where Mr. Paddock was once a regular and where he met his girlfriend.<br />“He acted like ‘these machines are for me.’”<br />Mr. Paddock was also a “starer,” Mr. Weinreich said.<br />“If you get close to 100 percent — that’s where he gambled,” Eric Paddock said.
