It turned out Steve Wynn and his wife were sitting right near where I was walking, and thus, Nick snapped this picture after the waiter introduced us.
There were two key events of the final day worth noting. One, as we were leaving the free dinner that the Wynn comped for us, I told the waiter how the Italian food really reminded me of a lunch I had at a restaraunt on a little island in the middle of Lake Como. He exclaimed that "Mr. Wynn would really like to hear that from you, please tell him."
It turned out Steve Wynn and his wife were sitting right near where I was walking, and thus, Nick snapped this picture after the waiter introduced us.
The second key event occurred when I was on a break from the daily Bellagio tournament, after failing in the WSOP Senior's Tournament (which was at the Rio). While at the Rio, I had purchased some white $1 chips to tip the cocktail waitresses for Diet Cokes and bottles of water. While I was at the Bellagio, on the break, I walked past a waitress who had a tray full of water bottles, and I wanted one, but she was not looking at me, and I did not want to upset her tray. So I spoke outloud so she would know what was happening when I took the water bottle and put a chip on her tray (I had forgotten that I was no longer at the Rio, and she would have trouble with this chip, so I should have given her a dollar bill on her tray.)
To keep from startling her, possibly causing her to drop her tray, I said "This is for you for the water in a nice loud voice" - but when she looked over at the chip on her tray, as it slid from one side to the other, she suddenly screamed "OH, THANK YOU SIR!!" and I knew I had a problem here, and realized that I was at the wrong hotel for that chip. Then it became clear to me...the Bellagio's white chips are $5,000 chips. Not even Mr. Capital S was that generous.
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