A New Casino Philosophy Part2
1 had now learned how to enjoy using money. Now I felt so much freer in both buying things and doing things with the winnings. Money casino money became fun cash for me. Without this new concept, would I ever have thought of buying a pair of $150 face-value tickets from a scalper on the sidewalk for an outrageous $500 for a once-in-a-lifetime event—Carnegie Hall Celebrates The Glorious MGM Musicals] Would Arnold Bruce Levy ever even THINK of handing over $500 to a despised sleazy scalper on the sidewalk for a couple of $75 tickets? Not conceivable, that's for sure.
ut, I said to myself, whenever again will such a star-studded line-up of legendary movie stars of this magnitude from the Golden Age of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ever appear all together on a New York stage? Or, for that matter, on a stage anywhere else in the world?
Most probably never.
Walking into the lobby of Carnegie Hall, clutching the much-sought-after tickets, I studied the long line of tired-looking people inside, waiting for hours on the no-ticket line, hoping for ticket cancellations that never came. Some looked very well-to-do, and I'm sure many on that no-ticket line could have bought-and-sold me, and I'd never even know that I was bought-and-sold. As I gazed at those anxious people on the line I knew that I was wealthier and much wiser than any of them. I'd put my money to good use, spending it for this once-in-a-lifetime experience that Stella and I cherish in memory forever. Even as I type this, I can still hear the golden echoes of those screen legends singing in person, on stage in magnificent Carnegie Hall, just for us.
The $500 for those precious tickets were spent with money I learned how to spend through my escapades in the casinos. When I lost there, I only lost what I took with me, and only what I could afford to lose. The $500 for that fabulous evening with my favorites of the silver screen were well-spent with the "fun money" 1 allowed myself. I am confident that my estate will be no poorer for that extravagant purchase, one that has enriched both Stella's life and mine while we're still here.
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A New Casino Philosophy
How Las Vegas and Atlantic City gave me a whole new philosophy on life and money, and how to spend both wisely . . . Hot News, a private book publishing newsletter, recently quoted from a letter written by Nathan Rothschild, founder of the London branch of the Rothschild family: "I don't read books,- I don't play cards, I don't go to the theater. My only pleasure is my business."
"That little statement . . . amused me," wrote the editor. "It caused me to reflect on the many wealthy men and women I've known. Most of them had the talent to accumulate large sums of money, but few had another talent: the talent to enjoy it."
The editor was right on target. The quote caused me to reflect on my philosophy concerning the role of money in my life, how it ranks in importance, and how I use it. I look back now at how my cash consciousness has radically changed in the past four decades, and the role the casinos played in that change.
Money was green paper that I had earned. I'd spend some and I'd squirrel away some. That was money to me. Then I discovered Las Vegas and the casinos, and suddenly money had a new exciting dimension. I felt much more free in both handling it and spending it.
Whenever I came into a casino windfall, I further honed my spending skills. One of the reasons I got to this mind-set was a comment by casino mogul Bill Harrah. When told that a high roller had just walked out of his casino with a big wad of the casino's cash, Harrah assured his executive, "Don't have to worry, he'll bring it back. I just consider it a temporary casino loan."
Well, with no malice intended, I respectfully say, "Screw you, Mr. Casino Honcho! When I hit it big, I spend it, and you can eat your heart out because you'll never see it again!" With a tight rein on my stop-limit pocket seed money, along with my unwavering no-credit policy, I make sure that I never bring it back. I also make sure that I make use of my winnings, both wisely and frivolously. Recall I even fucked away a nice wad of casino cash during my X-rated days, winning harems of wanton women, all funded by casino money. That they definitely can't win back.
I learned the art of buying on impulse with my windfall cash. At times I bought my girl friends expensive presents, often right there in the posh casino shops, and often paying with chips I had just won from the green-felt tables. And on impulse once, flush with casino cash, my girl friend and I flew to exotic Monte Carlo for three mad, exciting days and nights. What a James Bond weekend that was!
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