Louis Theroux goes gambling (2 Viewers)

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

the lynx and lamb part of the documentary was harsh stuff.
the mother is in dire need of some chocolate love.

 

[RSJ]

That tune she was singing in the van was pretty good though, lyrics aside obviously.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

yeah, it had good rythym.

 

[the departed]

has y'all seen the wrestling one? where he asks, "what would you say to people who say that wrestling is fake" or something. then proceedes to get the shit kicked out of him and forced to do hours of rediculous excercise.
THAT was when i felt really sorry for him. they really fucked him up like. say he was shitting himself.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

tom's attorney mate john is a fucking gem.
reminds me of this dude

 

[CitySickness]

Seeing that guy pump $100 bills into the slot machine nearly made me puke.

That was horrible to watch. All the Vegas hooey stripped away to show a dead-eyed rube having his money sucked away as fast as he could pull the bills off a roll.

What an utter soulless cunt that marketing guy was, though. "He's a friend first, a client second".

 

[Yurn!]

tom's attorney mate john is a fucking gem.
reminds me of this dude

A.K.A. My personal hero.

 

[aoboa]

"He's a friend first, a client second".

"My job is to keep him at the table for as long as possible".
Some friend, eh?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

What an utter soulless cunt that marketing guy was, though. "He's a friend first, a client second".

i can't remember him saying that....might have missed it

"My job is to keep him at the table for as long as possible".

but i do remember him saying that - he had no qualms about it, which is cool

the older casino lady with the even older gambling lady, she did say that she considers her to be her friend...but the young guy seemed to be clear about his job

 

[CitySickness]

Having said that, through some bizarre fluke, I left Vegas $800 richer than I came in – thus conclusively proving that losing is strictly for losers as far as gambling is concerned.

 

[aoboa]

At the beginning, before he picked him up, he was all "He's one of my best friends" - "We've been friends for 1x years" - "He's my friend first, a client second".
His attitude at the end was almost a complete u-turn.

Especially horrible was when he was trying to get the credit card for the gambler and they'd only give him $3000 credit cos he'd only lost 80,000 so far.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

ah - maybe he should get gambling lessons

 

[CitySickness]

i can't remember him saying that....might have missed it

It was at the start of the programme. The guy was a gigantic bullshitter who either outright despises the people he's schmoozing, or has managed to convince himself that he really is just "showing them a good time."

The whole "Vegas is about entertainment" line that got wearily cranked out a dozen times is such a transparent lie that the casinos' PR twats can't even summon up any sort of fake enthusiasm for it any more. Go watch the homeless dudes slamming the quarters that they've spent all day panhanding into Silver Dollar Jackpot slots at 2am: there's your entertainment.

 

[Pantone247]

did anyone else find it weird that after all that, especially the marketing fella being all "my job, keep him at the table" that Louis sat down and won a packet...

if I was the marketting guy, I would've been thinking "Jeez that's going to do some real damage, seeing us shaft that prick... what could we do to turn this around... I know, let the English guy win lots!"

Some other dude was playing the cards for him, Louis clearly had no idea what was going on, he won 1500 in an hour and a half... um...

 

[Space]

At the beginning, before he picked him up, he was all "He's one of my best friends" - "We've been friends for 1x years" - "He's my friend first, a client second".
His attitude at the end was almost a complete u-turn.

Especially horrible was when he was trying to get the credit card for the gambler and they'd only give him $3000 credit cos he'd only lost 80,000 so far.

At the very end when Louis asked him did he ever gamble and why not, was quite telling of how much he vales the friendship I thought. I don't gamble because I live here, I'm not stupid and I know better (or words to that affect).

 

[CitySickness]

Some other dude was playing the cards for him, Louis clearly had no idea what was going on, he won 1500 in an hour and a half... um...

Huh, never considered it might have been a stitch-up. Now that you mention it, Louis (Lew-wiss) looked genuinely out of his depth for the entire thing, as opposed to his usual "I might look bewildered but I know exactly what I'm doing" modus operandi.

 

[aoboa]

Huh, never considered it might have been a stitch-up. Now that you mention it, Louis (Lew-wiss) looked genuinely out of his depth for the entire thing, as opposed to his usual "I might look bewildered but I know exactly what I'm doing" modus operandi.

He also looked pretty pissed.

 

[sexypornolady]

Yeah, he was drinking bloody mary's, thought he was more of a wik'd man myself.

 

[CitySickness]

It was (slightly nauseating) news to me that people actually spend an entire night on Bloody Marys. I thought it was a strictly one-for-the-pain deal, like prairie oysters.

 

[Pantone247]

He also looked pretty pissed.

yeah

"where are you going!"

It probably wasn't a fix, it'd pretty hard to fix I guess... but it did work out rather well, and I was surprised Louis didn't do one of his sarky semi-serious quiet asides to someone about how he was winning so much. I guess he was sloshed.

The marketting guy said "you made $1,500 in an hour and a half, where else could make that kind of money" as if he hadn't, just hours ago, sent a guy home after taking 300,000 of his dollars off him

such seediness