Whale Hunt In The Desert: The Secret Las Vegas Of Superhost Steve Cyr
Deke Castleman
319 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0929712919
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Language: English
Publish: September 30, 2004
In pre-1990s Las Vegas, casino marketing executives were all cut from the same cloth; sharply-dressed and smooth-talking with street-savvy. They rose through the ranks of operations–dealer, floorman, pit boss, shift boss and casino manager. When it was time to leave the trenches, they went “upstairs” into the executive offices, where they hosted a handful of established players according to the unwritten rules of old-school Vegas. Then Steve Cyr showed up.