Throughout all history, when looking at the highly profitable businesses around the world, the mafia’s hand is probably involved in them. Some examples:
Alcohol, prostitution, drugs, casinos & gambling, weapons and the list goes on.

In the early 60′s in the United States, gambling became very popular and the many casinos opened their doors in Sin-City: Las Vegas, Nevada.

Just to get it straight, casinos are highly profitable, millions and billions of dollars can be made by one casino in a course of a year, even in the 60′s. There is no situation that mafia mobsters take a part in this celebration and Italian and Jewish mobsters from all parts of America send their “representors” to establish their land mark in Las Vegas.

The cash flow to the mafia bosses became instantly huge, giving a financial backbone structure to other “under the table” businesses.

Being a successful representor came with honorable money rewards, as they called weekend bonuses: The bosses would meet the representor and have a nice chat around the table, making numbers calculations and splitting the dirty earnings.

One of the most popular games back then and also nowadays is Poker. The game that was most profitable to the “house” back then was super triple poker bonus, leaving no room for chance to the poor gambler without him knowing this of course.

As the world involved over the past 50 years, we’ve witnessed the internet age, and to our connection, casinos immediately became available in the online format of online casinos.
Let’s hope the mafia is not controlling them as well. Who am I kidding?