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making automatic teller machine withdrawals. Sometimes they
would take cash home from the casinos; sometimes they would not.
Except for the $40,000 proceeds of one jackpot that Paula won in
February 1996, petitioners deposited into their checking or
savings accounts none of the cash that they brought home from the
casinos.
During 1996, petitioners kept no records of their gambling
activities. Biloxi Casino Magic and Bay St. Louis Casino Magic
(collectively, the Casinos Magic), however, maintained some
records of petitioners’ gambling activities. With regard to
petitioners’ table games play, these records consist primarily of
computer-generated “Trip History Reports” (THRs), wherein the
casinos’ table games supervisors would estimate and record
petitioners’ “observed” wins and losses on particular dates.
The THRs indicate that during 1996 petitioners had estimated
total winnings and losses at table games in the following
amounts:
Winnings Losses
Paula:
Bay St. Louis Casino Magic –- $32,729
Biloxi Casino Magic $1,250 --
Ronald:
Bay St. Louis Casino Magic 10,850 7,500
Biloxi Casino Magic -– 350
Employees of the Casinos Magic typically do not “observe”
patrons’ slot machine play, as they do table games play. The
casinos do, however, make available to their patrons so-called
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