Edward B. Rood - Page 10

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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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