ANALYSIS/OPINION:
“Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.”
— Bugsy Siegel, the godfather of Las Vegas.
Bugsy banked on that sucker’s motto when he built the palace in the desert, the Flamingo Hotel and Casino, in the late 1940s. He never got a chance to cash in on those “fresh starts,” knocked off supposedly by his angry mob investors pals.
But he understood this — the only real fresh start you get in Las Vegas is when you walk in the door and play your first hand. You end up losing that night, there are few, if any, fresh starts anymore.