Ty wouldn’t have been marketed as a whale because he was a former NBA player. Sure, it might make for a cool story down the line for Laker fans to recount playing with a former Kobe teammate. But the locals mostly were interested in playing with him because we assumed that he had money to burn and was bad at poker.
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