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disputes. Petitioner claims that during early December 1985, he
hosted a charity golf tournament at Caesar’s involving 12
players; that at a dinner on the evening before the tournament,
he invited the players to gamble on his credit if they did not
have credit with Caesar’s; that several players obtained chips on
his credit, including one who obtained $100,000 of such chips;
that the players who gambled on petitioner’s credit turned chips
in to the casino cage, including the player who obtained the
$100,000 of chips; and that the return of the chips was not
reflected on petitioner’s account by the casino employee in the
cage. Petitioner contends that each player reported receiving a
slip of paper when returning chips to the cage, but petitioner
does not know what became of the receipts. Petitioner claims to
have personally lost $80,000 gambling at Caesar’s during the
tournament.
Petitioner claims that, from the time Caesar’s began
attempting to collect from him, he had a “running telephone
dispute” with Caesar’s because of the foregoing events, but he
neither put his claims in writing nor attempted to obtain
statements from the tournament gamblers to prove his allegations
to Caesar’s.3 Petitioner claims that Caesar’s accepted his word.
He claims to have dealt with Mr. Roy Jones, Caesar’s casino
3
Petitioner stated at trial that most of the players who had
gambled on his credit were deceased.
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