“I’m trying, but usually I see 14 walking down the steps for work,' the pit boss said. Can we get a waitress over here?” Mihaela yelled. What was our dealer, Mihaela, going to do after her shift? Did she have a job? While the dealer began counting out another $1,000 in chips, Victor tugged at his silver Lacoste shirt and took his Maui Jim shades off his head, his face twisted into an impeccably tanned grimace. Victor was the kind of customer Revel needed as its gaming revenues languished at the bottom of all the casino earnings in town a big spender quick to swipe his Revel rewards card, which he offered to the manager as he settled into his seat (“I’ll scan it honey, but you know it don’t matter anymore.”). Patrons were hard-pressed to find a paper towel, a bite to eat, or even a stiff drink, which is what a man named Victor needed after losing $2,000 in five minutes at one of the few blackjack tables still dealing.

“It’s sad.”Ĭompanionship wasn’t the only scarce amenity on Revel’s last day. It’s just Harrah’s, Borgata, and Caesars, and I can’t work those places every night because people will recognize me too easy,” she says. “I can’t really come back to Atlantic City now. “I took a guy for $1,900 here last week, an older guy, he really liked me.”īetty doesn’t look a day over 30, has a broad smile that touches the sides of her brown hair just where the blonde dye kicks in, and says she’s from Las Vegas, “born and raised.” She works there too, but comes to AC several times a year to find additional clients.

“This is usually a good place to find guys,” the self-described “personal entertainer” told me as she roamed Revel’s deserted slot machines and card tables shortly after midnight. Revel, Atlantic City’s spectacularly ambitious $2.5 billion casino and hotel, finally went under this morning at 5 a.m., leaving some 3,100 casino employees without a job, and Betty without a place to solicit johns.

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