I did it all over town, but got lucky at Caesars Palace where I found a Super Bowl mailing list. Hell, I got my first break after spending a year dumpster diving behind casinos, looking in the trash for discarded mailing lists of gamblers. I don’t worry about people stealing my players because most hosts are lazy, and I’m not. I’ve sold my database before and made a ton of money. Larry gets people calling him all the time.” I’m not afraid of losing him. My answer to that is, “You want Larry Flynt’s cell phone number? I’ll fucking give it to you. They don’t think I should solicit other people’s players. Rooms like these are for players, not tourists.”Īs becomes immediately clear, Cyr - who almost took a job running his father’s Howard Johnson’s in Salina, Kansas - has no use for tourists. I told him that I would give him a credit line of $200,000, he could gamble it up, and keep the room for free. Gates said that he would pay $15,000 a night. But I told him that he needed to get out of the room Larry Flynt was coming, and he’d be risking a couple million dollars.

“He had it for Wednesday and Thursday and wanted to extend for two more nights. “Gates was renting it for $10,000 a night during the Consumer Electronics Show one year,” Cyr says. It also happens to be the same room he once kicked Bill Gates out of. He’ll press you to gamble beyond your comfort level and just might make sure you get the ritziest suite you’ve ever seen, complete with a fawning butler.įor our interview, Cyr reserved a 15,000sqft high-roller enclave at the Westgate, complete with more than a dozen TVs, hand-painted murals, and a private pool. The subject of Vegas tell-all Whale Hunt in the Desert and newly hired VP of player development at the freshly revamped Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton), 51-year-old Cyr has a reputation for being one of the most aggressive hosts in town. He’s a casino host, a guy who makes sure you get free rooms, comped meals, private jet service, tickets to the Mayweather fight - as long as you’re willing to gamble high enough to deserve it. If you gamble in Las Vegas, you need to know Steve Cyr.

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