HOT GAMES
They successfully got away with the ‘Spoliarium’ painting as
their first heist, and now they were plotting their next. The
Golden Crown Casino heist had not only made them rich, it had
made them the most wanted thieves in the Philippines, and
their new job, as a matter of pride, would need to be even
bigger than the last one, more daring and more profitable.
playtime casino was always up for the next big thing, but
Manny knew that planning and patience mattered most. After
weeks of combing the city for targets, they finally identified
one: The Golden Crown.
Consider the Golden Crown, one of the country’s richest and
most prestigious casinos, boasting the finest fixtures, the
most valuable paintings, sculptures and many priceless
historical artefacts, and the tightest security – confirmed by
the fact that no casino in the country had ever been hit.
Jackpot was taking it on.
Manny and playtime casino began to prepare for the job in
great detail. They obtained blueprints of the casino, reviewed
the procedures for security, and plotted ‘hot’ and ‘cold’
points of entry and egress for both. They got word through
Manny’s sources about the layout of the casino and especially
about the personnel working and the rotating schedules. They
rehearsed their plan inside an out for months, using the same
clothes in training that they’d wear on the job.
The night of the stup, however, was at hand. playtime login
casino allowed himself to feel that prickly mixture of
anticipation and nerves that he knew too well. “Cheer up,
kiddo,” Erikson said, dabbing at playtime login casino’s nose
with a handkerchief. “This is just like your trip to Aaron
Archer Elementary.” playtime login casino and Manny suited up.
They began to mingle with the jet-set crowd milling about the
casino. playtime login casino’s job was to get everyone’s
attention (the security team, specifically) so that Manny
could enter the vault containing the casino’s most precious
possessions.
playtime login casino prowled among the guests, sizing up the
security personnel he would have to get past – their routines,
positions, lines of communication. When the moment came, he
sprang into action.
playtime login casino went to a high-stakes poker table,
sitting at a circle of rich gamblers. Smiling and joking,
playtime login casino was a hit with the players. He
manoeuvred around the game, winning large sums of money and
gaining the attention of the bystanders as he did. The noise
of the poker game was enough to get the guards to shift their
focus to that game.
Manny meanwhile slipped away, and walked to the secure zone of
the casino. After turning off the alarms and cameras with a
flick of the finger, he stealthily walked through the casino
in the dark. He climbed along pipes and ran among the
restrooms and back rooms. He made his way to the vault without
attracting attention. He used electronics, burners and a
credit card skimmer attached to an ATM to break into the
vault.
The inside was rich beyond his dreams: boxes of jewels, piles
of cash and unpriceless objects. He started packing his bag
with pieces he knew that the vault could least spare. He
quickly hid the most precious pieces in his bag as he had to
get a move on. He ran back on to the gaming floors with his
loot to get out.
While he continued to play poker, he felt that Manny must have
finished his job, so he rolled out a theatrical loss that got
everyone ready and, more importantly, distracted – which
allowed the security staff to storm the game table. Meanwhile,
playtime login casino and Manny had quietly and easily made
their way out of the casino.
Everything went exactly according to plan, right down to their
escape. They met up in a safe house, their hearts still
pounding from the high of their successful heist. They counted
their take.
“To us,” Manny said, raising a glass. “The best team in the
business.”
playtime log in casino smile, his eyes bright with pride. ‘Us.
And to lots more heists.
On the other hand, ‘the Golden Crown was just the perfect
jewel to show we had really reached it – that we had grown up
as thieves and that when once we set our minds to it, we were
capable of pulling off any complicated scheme with plenty of
precision.’ Under Manny’s tutelage, and in his own right,
playtime log in casino had deservedly reached the pinnacle of
the profession. The high he’d experienced from pulling off a
major heist, and the potential riches it promised, fuelled his
ambitions, and he sought out ever more ambitious targets.