The Phantom Gamblers of the Silver State

Previously

…A headline screamed: "Sterling Sweeps the Tables at the Golden Mirage!" The accompanying article detailed Silas's improbable win of a million dollars in a single poker tournament, a sum that would have been astronomical even by today's standards, let alone in the late 1960s. Yet, just months later, another article, buried on an inside page, hinted at Silas’s sudden departure from Vegas, his assets reportedly tied up in a series of complex, unresolvable debts. A gambit gone wrong? Or something more sinister? Then there was Isabella Dubois. A society gossip column from 1971 detailed her extravagant losses at a private blackjack game, a game reportedly hosted in the back