In 2007 Mr. Terrance Watanabe was indicted for fraud for money owed to Harrah’s Casinos and he then sued them for money owed to him. Mr. Watanabe started as a casual gambler and became a professional gambler in 2005. As a professional gambler, Mr. Watanabe would frequent various casinos. He started gambling at Harrah’s Casinos in Iowa, then ended up gambling in Harrah’s Las Vegas Casinos. Mr. Watanabe was a customer at three different Harrah’s Casinos. He gambled with his earnings that climbed to 825.4 million dollars. Prior to him gambling with Harrah’s, the CEO of Wynn Casinos Steve Wynn realized Mr. Watanabe had an alcohol problem and a gambling addiction he banned him from the casino. So, then Mr. Watanabe met with an executive at a Harrah’s Casino and was offered rewards to gamble there. He began losing money…show more content… However, in the case of Mr. Watanabe per the article The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million, he was manipulated into losing millions of dollars by employees of the casinos feeding his addiction. Mr. Watanabe visited multiple casinos owned by the same owner ran buy the same managers. Therefore, all employees were told to keep him so intoxicated that he ended up becoming mentally incompetent. There were employees fired for saying something about his habits. No person in their right mind would just dwindle away millions of dollars. According to Miller” gambling is the creation of risk for assuming it” (2017). So, to say Mr. Watanabe wouldn’t lose any money at all would be unjust. The article also noted that he was provided with illegal pain medicine. Had he not been drinking or using the prescription pain medicine that he was illegally provided by casino employees, he would not have continued to lose money at such a significant rate. He was clearly set up to lose every day as he was under the hotel employees
