Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] Mel has re-appeared....
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Mon Mar 19 19:41:48 2007
References: <C224CE4E.4A70E%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Wasn't Mel selling gear out of Beverly Hills for a while?

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Mar 19, 2007, at 8:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> On 3/19/07 10:48 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> typed:
>
>> Remember the guy Mel who sold Leica cameras in Las Vegas?  He has  
>> just started
>> putting ads in Ebay...
>>
>> Looks like he is alive and well........
>>
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>>
>>
> If he's on eBay he's more than just alive.
> He's in the running.
> He's in the game.
> He's a player.
>
> IF he's on eBay he's not selling his stuff like he used to.
> He's letting you "win" them.
> He's "the house" maybe.
>
> In the book about Meyer Lansky "Little Man" its discused that
> "A Gambler"
> Is not someone sitting at the tables.
> A Gambler is someone who sets up the game.
> Meyer Lansky was a Gambler. No way was he going to sit at some table.
>
> The people at the tables are not the gamblers.
> They're the suckers.
>
> Meyer Lansky ran a fair game but made sure the odds were in his favor.
> Which as the house it usually is.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> 8A/109s
> New York, NY
>
> markrabiner.com
>
>
>
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