At around 3 a.m. one night in Las Vegas, Terrance Watanabe got a craving for In-N-Out Burger. The problem? It was closed. Most people in this situation would stumble back to their hotel for a late-night room service burger. Not Terrance Watanabe. Determined to get his Double-Double, Terrance offered the staff $50,000 to reopen the restaurant just for him — and to cook enough burgers for the casino dealers working his table. They did.
That kind of move wasn’t unusual when Watanabe was in town. The Nebraska-born businessman became the center of gravity in any casino he entered. He was soft-spoken, polite, and obscenely generous — a man who handed out $25,000 chips to strangers in elevators, tipped millions, and regularly turned the…