The Vegas Dealer Who Broke Every Casino on the Strip — Then Disappeared Forever

In the summer of nineteen ninety-nine, a blackjack dealer walked into the Golden Nugget Casino in downtown Las Vegas for his evening shift. By morning, he'd vanished without a trace, leaving behind twenty-three million dollars in casino losses and a legend that still haunts the Strip today. His name was Tommy Chen, and what he did over eighteen months would force every major casino in Nevada to rewrite their rulebooks. This is the story of the man who beat Vegas at its own game, then disappeared into thin air.

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