Anncasville, Connecticut, is about 180 kilometers from Boston, whether you take Highway 95 via Providence or Waltham and Highway 395, you can reach this famous entertainment town in about half a day. Since the Mohican Indian Settlements Act was officially passed in the Connecticut Legislature in 1995, the gambling industry in Ancasville has really flourished, and with the convenience of Indian settlement autonomy, casinos of all sizes have sprung up in the small land of Ancasville.

In Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, gambling is not legally permitted, perhaps due to the puritanical traditions, but the wealthy always need to find a place to have fun, and in the past their targets have always been in Atlantic City, New Jersey, more than 300 kilometers from Boston, almost twice the distance to Ancasville, and it often takes a whole day to drive without a plane. This allowed Ancasville to replace Atlantic City as the center of gambling and entertainment in New England in the mid-to-late nineties, and it was also a favorite gold cave for Boston's wealthy and celebrities.

On the evening of November 18th, Ancasville's most famous Golden God Casino welcomed a big customer, a group of players from the Boston Celtics. Leading the way is Celtic's star of the game, Antoine Walker, along with Joe Johnson, Tariq Wahad, Eric Williams, Mark Blunt and others. After a full day of rest on Nov. 17, the No. 18 Celtics players took part in practice. After the afternoon training, head coach Leon announced that the training session on the 19th would be cancelled and that there would be another training session on the morning of the 20th. So Antoine Walker, who was about to move, finally found an opportunity to take his little brothers to the long-awaited Golden God Casino for a day of fun.

In the first two seasons, Dennis Rodman was a regular at the Golden God Casino, before he retired. Sometimes I would take Walker here to spend a lot of money and relieve the huge pressure caused by NBA games. After Rodman left, with Leon as head coach and increased training frequency and intensity, Walker could no longer find time to get away from the casino. You can only go to a nightclub in Boston after the game. But the nightclubs in Boston are just as small and old as the stadiums, subways, and restaurants in Boston. And since the attack on Pierce two years ago, Celtics players have been mindful of nightclubs, and those who are not familiar with them will never dare to go, which also greatly limits their fun.

During the four-day game break, Walker thought that he would have to spend another hard training session, but he didn't know that Leon had taken another day off and didn't drive to the Golden God Casino to play, which was really a waste of such a great opportunity.

The Golden God Casino was built in 1992. It officially opened in 1996, just in time for Anncasville gambling to take off, and began to become a well-known emerging casino in the northeastern United States. The main building of the casino, Jinshen Hotel, is composed of a number of rectangular glass buildings, which are beautiful and magnificent, and are rich in the characteristics of modern architectural schools. On top of that, there's a large outdoor casino made up of a lot of mixed materials, these white mushroom-like, umbrella-like shade structures. A casino forest is formed around the Golden God Hotel. In the core area, there is also a huge multi-purpose hall with a large surface and space no less than an NBA arena. It is usually a high-end gambling venue, but it can also be used as a boxing ring, concert venue or political speech venue during special periods.

This place is what Walker really wants to go, and those slot machines, horse racing machines, small steel balls, etc. outside can't satisfy Walker's appetite, and he takes a group of people into the core casino under the personal guidance of the casino manager.

Joe Johnson was visiting this kind of high-class casino for the first time, and the summer was different from a lot of players who trained in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He chose to return to Arkansas, to Little Rock, where there were only modest buildings and stadiums, no such splendid hotels, and no such luxurious gambling establishments. Lately he's been hanging out with Walker in some of Boston's nightclubs. But none of them are as shocking as the Golden God Hotel.

Walker had already exchanged nearly $200,000 in chips and was ready to go to those money-swallowing tables to have a good time, while Johnson took out his credit card and thought about it, gritted his teeth, and exchanged $5,000 in chips. Johnson looked at the guy who changed chips for him, with a gentle smile on his face, and there was no trace of ridicule or disdain in his eyes, but Johnson himself felt that he must be mocking himself in his heart, mocking him, a "poor ghost" who could only exchange chips for five thousand dollars, as long as he was an NBA professional player...... But thinking that I can't stay in this place for long, why can't I let go like that? Thinking about it, he asked the little guy for another five thousand dollars in chips.

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Doug Green, the duty manager of the core hall of the Golden God Casino, personally led Walker and his party into the casino, and then left the hall to continue greeting people outside. In addition to having some special skills in working in a casino, you also need to be able to observe what you say, which celebrities, what are the riches, what are the troublemakers, what are the adventurers, and what are the big high-rollers, all of which need to be seen by these managers in a short period of time, so as not to let the high-quality guests be neglected, but also not to let those troublemakers disrupt the order of the casino.

Seeing Walker and the Celtics players, the duty manager couldn't help but think of Dennis Rodman, a casino celebrity and high roller who would have a good time every time he came here, not only throwing a lot of money at the table, but also drinking the best wine, playing with the best women, staying in the best room and sleeping in the best bed. It can be said that almost half of the money Rodman earned with the Celtics in the past two years was thrown into the Golden God Casino. It's a pity that since retiring, Rodman has left New England and returned to Las Vegas, which he loves more, and also lost a high-quality customer to Jinshen.

But then Green remembered the guy who often came with Rodman, the horrible guy with long hair and a cold glint in his eyes—a casino monster. If you want to say why Rodman didn't throw all his salary in the Golden God Casino, it must be because the other half was won back by that guy. Green has heard of this guy, and he is also well-known in the gambling world, his fame began in Star Harbor City, Sydney, Australia, and then occasionally appeared with Rodman in various casinos across the United States, as long as he appeared, he would inevitably sweep away, resulting in him now being blacklisted in casinos.

Green remembered his name, Fox Leon, a man as cunning as a fox and as fierce as a lion.

"Please take me to the main casino and give me a ......... by the way One hundred dollars in chips. Just as Green was in a daze, someone greeted him. Green followed the voice and saw a bearded man talking to him, with short black curled hair, most notably a thick beard, and a pair of large-rimmed brown glasses, like an avant-garde artist of the '70s.

Although Green wanted to tell him that "a hundred dollars can't stay in it for three seconds", he still swallowed back the words in the sensitivity of his profession, he needed to take a closer look at this guy, a person like this is either a gambling maniac who wants to lose crazy and want to get back to his roots, or a hillbilly who wants to go inside and try the world that he has rarely seen, or will he be a big gambler who is hidden in the depths? However, in Green's experience, he had never seen this gambler before, and it stands to reason that such a beard should be easily recognizable.

"Maybe you can try your luck in the gambling venues on the outside, but the items in them may not be for you...... Of course, if you need it, it's no problem to get in and I'll show you the way. Green tried to persuade the bearded man, but the bearded man ignored him and just let him lead the way, so Green had to take the bearded man into the core hall and take him to the small house to change chips.

"A hundred dollars in chips." The bearded man pulled a hundred dollars from his pocket and exchanged it for a chip. The little guy had always maintained a respectful, calm look, and finally broke down in front of the hundred dollars, and he gave the bearded man a gentle roll of the eyes, he had never seen a gambler come to the core gambling hall for only a hundred yuan in chips.

"Okay, where to start? Let's start with roulette. The bearded man flipped his chips and decided to start with the roulette wheel.

Seeing that the bearded man was going to play roulette, a smile of disdain appeared on the corner of Green's mouth, because roulette is basically a gambling game that relies purely on luck, and there is almost no skill to speak of, in this case, the possibility of the beard hiding the big gambler should be very low. Green's heart was completely relaxed. (To be continued.) )