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In this clip, Maury Behar discusses how he came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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I agree.In this clip, Maury Behar discusses how he came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Talk to me about getting to Vegas. So you did this real estate broker business. Yes. As I told you before, I love to play poker; that's my main diversion. I don't chase women. I don't drink. I don't smoke. But I do love to play poker. I used to bring my son here once in a while. On his thirteenth birthday I brought him to Vegas with his best friend and we stayed at Circus Circus. His birthday is in September. This is really a funny story. I was playing poker. In those days it was a lot of dimes around. So whenever I got five, six dollars' worth of dimes, I used to give them to the kids to go play the rides and all that stuff. Then I said, "I've got to find a show to take these two kids." I look in the ads and the only thing I could see was Ice Capades. I said, "Perfect. That would be great for the kids; I'll take them to the Ice Capades." I get front row ticket seats to the point where the ice flows in your face; that's how close we were. They open up the curtain. They were all semi nudes. [Laughing] What kid wouldn't, right? His little friend is, "Oh." He's never seen one before. Well, wouldn't you know it? As soon as we get back to L.A., "Mom, Mom, guess where Mr. Behar took us to? Guess what he took us to?" [Laughing] It was all innocent. I figured Ice Capades would be... Where was that at? Was that at one of the hotels? It had to be the Sahara or the one that just closed up across from the Stardust it used to be. It could have been the Sands for all I know. One of those three hotels. Anyway, I always liked to come to Vegas. I used to stay at the Stardust. That was my place. I like to bet sports and I don't want to go through a bookie because they shade the line, if you know what that means. Once they get to find out who you like, they'll always put a few more points on them. So I used to come to Vegas to bet sports and I used to come on all the big holidays because I was single at that point. I used to stay there, so everybody knew me. I used to play poker. I used to get the best room in the house for twenty bucks upstairs. Everything was comped by the boys because they all knew me. I got to like Vegas; that part of town, anyway. They used to comp me to all the shows and stuff like that. You felt like a real...Not a mensch, but an important person.