Laurent Rees

speaker

49 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard Nov 2024

Laurent Rees’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons? · Lady Mafia | 5. Losing at the Wynn · 18 Nov 2024 podcast

I started to panic. And actually, when I finally told, you know, I told Cameron, I'm like, this is what's going on. Like, I don't know how to handle it. And that's when he said, OK, you're good at these slots. Win back. Because he's seen me win tons of money on them. So I said, OK, but you kind of go down this rabbit hole.

You know, I told you, my dad's quote to me is, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. And so you get competitive against a stupid machine, and you should know better than to gamble against the house. Like, it doesn't ever pay off, ever.

When I first arrived to the win, that's all I would do. I actually didn't even unpack my suitcase. I would literally pop open the champagne, open the back door for Kula to go potty, and then I would take my champagne and go, go to the slot machines. Zara was spiraling. I actually don't really sleep much. I never did anyways, because I took Adderall, so I was always awake.

The Adderall and the alcohol was a cocktail of focused haze. Every time I would drink, I would take a pill. Drink, take a pill, because it would keep me alert, but also calm. When you take Adderall, you have a very bad short-term memory, so you don't think about certain things. Plus, with the alcohol, it just kind of makes your reality just kind of euphoric in a way. Also invincible.

You feel invincible a little bit. And that's probably why I just kept taking it, thinking taking it would just solve my problems, and I could figure things out if I just keep taking Adderall.

So we'd go back to the villa. I would tuck him in bed. I would change, you know, into my comfy clothes and put on, you know, my yoga pants and my Chanel sweater and my Chanel sneakers. And then at three in the morning, go back out into the slots.

So I learned on the penny slots. So I was like, there's got to be a rhyme or rhythm, and I have to feel the rhythm in the machine.

Okay, let me tell you about Dragon Link. It's basically a game. It has like five different characters. It has... You know, an old Japanese man, a young Japanese woman, a big Buddha, a panda.

Now, I was the only one who could hit as many bonuses, you know, in a day. People would just watch me like I was in a zoo. But it was a really incredible game once you felt the rhythm of it. And then I knew how to bet properly and I would hit these big bonuses.

Depending on how the night went, I would either stay awake till 6 to 7 a.m. the next day and continue gambling the whole entire day. If it wasn't doing well, I'd go back to the room about 5 a.m. I would check on Kula. I would take her out to play in the yard. Cameron was still sleeping. So I would go back out at 6 a.m. to the slot machines.

So the janitor that would be on last would wait for me to come in and he'd give me a hug hello and let me know which machines were hitting.

I hated it. I was so stressed. I would never really enjoy it. I would drink myself into disarray every day. I took Adderall left and right to stay awake. I was a hot mess, but I played. And a lot of times I'd win really big. I really would.

My host came up to me and said, we're presenting you with the Chairman's Club card. And they only present it once a year. And this is mid-year. The first thought that entered my mind was, holy fuck, how much have I lost? I was not excited. I was not happy. I was like, just holy shit. What? How much? Did you know you were losing by then? I had to. I mean, but the card, yeah.

Because you don't just give a parade to somebody who's winning all your money. So I knew right then and there, like, something's bad. Like, this is not right.

Oh, I felt it was out of control when I was ordering, you know, a thousand Adderall pills to my hotel room from Newport Beach to Mary Poppins at the Wynn.

And the guy said, oh, it's no big deal. You're like, you're down 1.8 million. And I had to like laugh, shrug it off like it's nothing, but it was definitely not nothing. And I about lost my, I mean. I had to go to the bathroom. I couldn't even imagine.

So what happens is, I never look at how much I put in. I look at what the outcome of the day is, which was great. But, you know, the booze and the Adderall really helped me forget about the amount you put in to win the $200,000 you walk out with.

When I heard the number out loud, like I understand you're losing, you get perks. But this number, I mean, I was thinking to myself, how am I going to get back? And that's why I wanted to win my birthday amount.

So they always say when you're a big player, they always make you win really big on your birthday.

I hate birthdays, but Cameron loves birthdays. And so he It was actually my host who put together my whole room. So I was in room 8808 at the win.

Showing 21–40 of 49 · page 2 of 3