I agree Roger.
I think the amazing part of the history is states, cities, chip buyers, club names, etc change, but the stories all come to similar story lines. The era of the illegals was a huge business in the USA.

There was no way it could have gotten so big without the goverments help when they passed the Federal Tax stamp act. The operators felt that was an official go ahead from the federal goverment.

All they had to do was payoff the locals and they were free to go. It worked for close to 30 years.

The more the stories are different the more they are the same!
Wine, whiskey, women, bribery, murder, chips, cards, dice, and gambling.

There are many more stories out there as we have only seen 1 or 2 stories about the dice records we have from several of the dice distributors. I hope I live long enough to get to the dice records.