High-stakes action
The course at Greenbrier Resort
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- It’s 11 p.m. in The Greenbrier’s Casino Club, and waitresses dressed in evening gowns are passing out complimentary flutes of champagne to each guest. The uber-elegant, 103,000-square-foot casino suddenly is flooded with orchestral music – an original arrangement called “The Greenbrier Waltz,” we’re told – as two couples dance from the marble staircase to the faux springhouse in the center of the casino.
Some gamblers stop to watch and take pictures, while others seem oblivious to the dancers. An attractive young blonde at the craps table, about 20 feet from the springhouse, screams “Six! Six!” while at a nearby blackjack table a man yells, “Boom!” every few seconds.
Some, though, savor the charm of the moment. At the bar in the Twelve Oaks lounge just off the casino floor, John Love of Charlottesville, Va., has been nursing a gin and tonic and waiting for the toast. “I really enjoyed that,” Love says ...
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