Puerto Mogan The hotel was almost finished. Works with the new construction had advanced well and meeting the agreed quality. The Rough were more than happy, excited about the business that was coming. Hundred rooms, restaurant, nightclub, pool and tennis court. The four stars would be insured and would fight for fifth.
however, had a conversation with Matt and Ernie the day I finally constituted "Sparta, SA." Signed at the notary early, at half past ten, Lucia, after accepting the post of chief executive, hastily left the court, had to practice diligence in foreclosure against one of my debtors. We three, Bert, Matt and I went for a coffee.
That talk gave me the idea to introduce a small change in the last minute. Next to the hotel in the area designated for parking, build a casino, and parking would be underground. It would be a huge casino or even medium one small enough to start. Would have a room of slot machines, a bingo hall, and another with roulette, blackjack and various forms of poker. Then, if the business worked, there would be time to expand.
taking sips of his carajillo, Blas told me its investigation into thefts at the casino, that history had barely begun to have lunch in rustic, and first I interrupted with my urgent urinal, and finally was parked (but not forgotten) when passed to propose to the security company.
"The casino manager was convinced that there was a thief, but I did not see it clearly. Cameras did not detect anything suspicious.
- Suspected like what?
- There are many ways to cheat a casino, for example, a player who makes money and abundant repeated becomes suspected of cheating. Is monitored closely, if not discovered the trick you kindly not to return, and if it is discovered complaint. Easier still if you have an employee's complicity in this case in a specific table are too many gains for one or more players. None of this is detected. We spend time to investigate all employees, one by one, their customs, their heritage, their debts, etc. And no, we did not find anything. I, the truth, I began to doubt that there really theft. I told the manager:
"" Look, I think we are wasting time, what makes you so sure that someone steals?
-revenues have declined by nearly five percent in the last two years, in exchange inflows have remained stable customers, and has even risen slightly.
"But that may be because those who come are spending less money because of the crisis.
"No, because sales of bingo cards, which are accounted for, as each carton is disabled after use, have remained. And the collection of slot machines has increased slightly. Those who have fallen have been playing chips, roulette and poker, precisely those that are not controlled, because they are reusable.
"Then place a system of control of these chips.
"We have a tab control in cash, of chips sold, recovered chips, and chips paid, but it is impossible to set a precise control of what is called floating tab.
- What's that?
"Simple, the chips, every day, leave the box, we call them chips in box. Which are sold to customers are chips sold. The win for the dealer banks are called chips recovered. But ... "He paused, the chips are in the hands of the customer, not even on the betting table, these can not know the exact amount each time. From time then we surprise control of the chips in hand, we call floating tab control, because if the total number of cards subtract that are in cash, and have been recovered at the table, we get the number of floating chips.
"Maybe the thief is the cashier .- .- It is suggested that it is easier. You be satisfied with a single accomplice, would give more chips actually sold, and then would score as coins paid. "Maybe
.- .- But the manager said we need to prove it. The cashier is a respectable gentleman of fifty-six years, has been working with us more than ten, relatively little is missing to retire, it would make sense to risk, and thefts have only started to produce last year and half or so. Furthermore, as we know, this man has a blameless life.
- But why not give off no more? If they stop thefts occur is that it was him ...
"Look, we do not like a shot in the dark, let alone leave the street to an honest family man. Besides the judge declared the dismissal null and would have to reinstate or compensate strongly. This solution and we thought, but we do not like. I repeat that we need evidence.
"Then I can only infiltrate the casino and another employee.
"Do what you have to do."
"So I signed an employment contract, I was released on Social Security, I was dressed in a tuxedo and bow tie, the uniform of the casino. And then the fun began.
- What's the fun?
"Everything I learned, the people, their naive passions. To what extent can be stupid. I can understand that someone go to the casino once, to try their luck, to satisfy their curiosity. But usually someone comes by habit, custom, addiction, the sure knowledge that they will lose, because statistics do not fail in the long run is always lost. That's why I do not understand, or did not understand, because after my short experience in dealer discovered the poker table I sensed that behind this pattern of behavior lies an emptiness, a futile search for some kind of feeling, if only a fleeting emotion experienced while the wheel is turning. A casino is a laboratory of human behavior and feelings, and poker is a card game is a game of psychology.
"Wow, you become a philosopher .- He cut Teo.
"But we all have our black holes, and try plugging in one way or the other .- I said, thinking mostly of myself and how to satisfy my craving for excitement looking at the edge of legality.
"Yes, but it was not all philosophy, I also had time, well ... I rolled one of the waitresses, Vicky, that was the best ... I think. I, the truth is that he had no intention to complicate my life in the midst of that investigation, especially because I needed to keep your eyes peeled if you wanted to find out what was going on. But I guess that indifference was what spurred her because the baby is great, with a doll face and a body and model, and I will not give more details at this time. The fact is that he began to tease me, throwing jabs, trying to make fun of me, on account of my supposed inexperience as croupier. I followed the game, I became even more asshole. I realized that was a cool aunt, narcissistic, suspicious and a tad aggressive, and I'm also very cool. In another context would have ended with communion wafers, but there I was interested to note. Vicky likes to make fun of others, but his sense of humor is not enough to laugh at herself.
To me, the truth, I'm not interested in his adventures Don Juan, but the other, the investigation of the thefts. I was tempted to interrupt again using the technique of going to the bathroom, but then I thought it could happen like the previous occasion that I was not knowing the end of the story, and decided to stand and follow the thread.
"I began to take home in my car after work. She lives in Aluche, I caught on the way to Móstoles. Along the way he told me his life, had recently separated from her boyfriend's life, his uncle made him horns with one and other. I went along, but in moderation: "What a fool, look what he had seen no" ... but without falling into my typical phrases of flattery. The praised, but very subtly. The truth is that I thought she only wanted me for a roll of friends to tell their troubles, and how bad we are men, and how good she is. I do nothing, without taking a step.
And I impatient, wanting to ask: "Yes, but what about theft?" And biting my tongue, "let him finish, because it at any time be long to see a client and you're left with curiosity."
"Then, one night, I began to mourn, telling me that the ex-boyfriend was swearing, with a house they had bought in the middle and he was still alive and refused to settle, but the mortgage had pay between the two. I hugged her to comfort her, thinking it was a facet of my obligations as a friend. But she started kissing me, first on the cheeks, then on the lips, and then ... but I will tell you details.
-Si, we know, mostly corroborated these Hrs.-Teo.
"Anyway, who said he did not want to spend the night alone, etc, and I rather go home Móstoles took her to a modest apartment in the area of \u200b\u200bNuevos Ministerios, to use as a riding school for my little adventures. On this occasion my double life was complete, professional and personal.
to me all that I thought was a waste of time and a waste of energy, but Bias was so proud telling his feat that neither Matt nor I dared to cut. Until I made a move to looking at their watches hurried the last sip of his carajillo.
"Oh, no, you do not leave here without revealing who the thief.
"Well in all honesty I must say that was a mixture of chance and perseverance that we discovered.
-Chance and a milk Teo said .- .- In reality it was I who discovered it, do not forget.
"Yes, but with the information I gave you, it was me who told you you had to search. The truth is that the prime suspect, logically, by hand, for opportunities, was and remained the cashier, so I told Matt to go over and over again the recordings of the box, especially the supply of chips. Until I discovered.
"Now, that while you were tirándote the waitress I sucked boring hours of recording," complained Matt - on camera slow to observe deliveries of money, supplies of chips and over and over again. And suddenly I discovered, there was, there had been all along. Women came in peak traffic hours, deliver ten thousand tickets and two tickets to five thousand, and said, "ten and ten", and the cashier, not just look at her, gave him ten thousand sheets, and attention ... ten ten thousand chips.
"The plan was almost concluded perfecto.-Blas .- If someone had noticed, or if the tab control they have been found floating, the cashier could always have argued that it was a mistake, a simple error. But the floating tab control, as I have already observed, never was at the peak influx of customers, among other things because that would have to stop selling chips, and ultimately would hurt the business rather than the robbery continued.
- Who was the woman accomplice?
"Well, there is good, so we had not seen anything suspicious in the behavior of cash even though we had watched. And that woman, "the woman with ten-ten" the baptized, was her lover, of course, but it was also ... its neighbor. So the honest father did not leave the building, the building work and building work, to steal some for your lover and retirement. Indeed, the coup did not work out badly, after all. Conservábamos only five recordings, all of the above had been erased, as it had not found anything ... so for now they are free on bail. And fifteen or twenty million won will only be showing about five hundred thousand pesetillas. There are blows that even worth getting caught, right?
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