“I caught like two diamonds that night: a Jack of Diamonds and a Queen of Diamonds,” Railey said, adding before he could make a move security came and upstairs they went. It was Michigan State Police and the state’s gaming control board.The crew was led upstairs and to this day Railey says he hasn’t seen a penny of his $1,922.50 purse. “See, I’m a ladies man and if I see somebody might like a girl I’m going to have to go speak to them on they behalf.”īut it wasn’t a couple potential beauties that were sweet on Darryl. “I thought that meant there was a couple ladies he had me holler at earlier that night. “Darryl had texted me on his break and said, ‘They watching me,’” Railey said. Railey remembers the very moment he went from VIP of the casino castle (he’d once had a $22,000 Royal Flush) to first in line in the mugshot lineup. “I can’t say he was doing it deliberately.” “I think he was paying out when he shouldn’t have been,” Railey said. “I knew he had a drinking problem.”Īnd that was the extent of it: a tipsy, sloppy dealer who may have lapsed on many a losing hand. “He drank a whole half gallon of Jack Daniels which was a Christmas present from my nurse,” Railey said.

Railey and his card cronies kept returning to Darryl’s table and won not because of any collusion, but because the dealer was just a hapless drunk. Green is accused of letting Railey and the other six accused gamblers rack up cash despite turning over losing hands, or even just turning a blind eye and let them keep their chips if they lost. It is Railey, authorities say, who was the mastermind of the slow-motion scheme where 53-year-old card dealer pal Darryl Green kept letting the house get taken for “hundreds of dollars” in 2014 by divvying out winnings.

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