Las Vegas shooter saved on food, but lost $ 100 thousand per hour to the casino

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Las Vegas shooter Steven Paddock was addicted to gambling, in one hour he could play video poker before 1000 hands, spending about 100 thousand dollars on it.

He played for colossal sums, betting 125 dollars on every hand and playing very quickly, for eight hours at the casino in The Strip and Reindeer, writes Daily Mail.

Playing on such sums allowed him a fortune of about 2 million dollars, which he earned on investing in real estate.

According to experts, players like Paddock look like “stenographers” on typewriters, because their fingers move very fast, and they really play at incredible speeds.

Paddock attended exclusive VIP gaming tournaments in Las Vegas, where he won and lost six-figure sums.

The players called him low level high roller, he received from the casino traditional privileges of regular players: a limousine and 10 000 dollars for the game.

Paddock's friend, Marillo Danley, received shopping trips from the casino to cover all expenses; the couple also stayed in expensive hotel rooms for free.

According to other players, during the game, Paddock drank a lot, he was considered a terrible drunkard and feared that such an amount of alcohol could affect his psyche.

Despite the fact that he was a millionaire, the man was so concerned about saving money that he dined about three times a week at a center for pensioners, where he paid $ 3,50 for food, reports Daily Mail.

Before leaving for Las Vegas to prepare his deadly mission, Paddock went to the center to ask the cook for an enchilada recipe, but did not stay for lunch.

Visitors to the center recall Paddock as an "unsociable" and "calm" person who loved to sit alone during lunch and stay "in his own world."

81-year-old David Blake, who has visited the center for 13 years, called it "an introvert who had little time for others."

Blake said that Paddock was visiting the center over the past year and looked sloppy.

“When I first saw him, I thought he was homeless, he was unshaven, disheveled, quiet and didn’t talk to anyone much,” the man recalled.

According to him, Paddock tried to sit alone, but even if someone else was sitting at his table, he did not talk to him.

“He didn’t draw attention to himself, didn’t cause concern,” Blake concluded.

He added that although Paddock’s behavior was odd, in a gambling city such as Mesquite, this is normal.

“It didn’t seem to me that Stephen was doing anything other than thinking deeply about how he would play his next poker game,” Blake noted.

Paddock's girlfriend never accompanied him during a visit to the center, he also did not take part in the center's recreational activities, so his visitors concluded that Paddock was interested only in cheap food.

Recall, October 2 Paddock killed a 58 man and injured more than 500by opening fire on the guests of the music festival from his room on the 32 floor of the hotel Mandalay Bay. After that, he committed suicide. The police still can not understand the motives of the gunman.

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