Gambling is like any other addictive vice - it's a matter of scale and stakes. If it wasn't for literally millions of penny slot machine and dollar lottery addicts the worldwide gambling industry would surely have collapsed decades ago. The stakes are so low that those people can piss away a lot without losing their rent and food money. Davey is part of a much smaller subset of problem gamblers who insist on playing high stakes games with money they know full well they either don't have or can't spare. It's literal financial Russian Roulette and they get a big charge of adrenaline when they're looking down the barrel of ruination. That adrenaline rush might as well be heroin for this type of person, because it affects them exactly the same. They're not even afraid of pain or death or losing their families.
@@ceerious not hard to imagine what went down in Nevada. Seems Meadow thought he wound up in a mental health facility. I think it's a lot like the many connected guys that "went into witness protection". That sad mf is in a hole somewhere in the desert, one plot over from Nicky and his kid brutha.
If Tony hadn’t intervened he probably would’ve been in the hospital after getting caught at the executive game. But that would’ve been a bad move because then he wouldn’t be able to order everything on credit for the bust out and they would’ve ended up getting stiffed.
Davey seems uncharacteristically sober in the last scene and lucid. He seems to be baiting Tony to fall for his own game. If I’m not mixing up seasons, Tony goes to Vegas not long after, and falls into his own gambling addiction (through numbness) which gets worse during the Indian casino arc. Long time since I’ve seen the show might be mixing up the timeline
For me the fear of losing is greater than the thrill of winning. I still remember how it felt when I lost a bet as a kid and had to pay the debt with something I treasured
That's how it is for most people, it's called loss aversion. The impact of losing $1 is twice that of gaining $1. But for gamblers the mental wiring is different, where winning $1 has far more impact than losing even $2. That's probably why now they're seeing it as a sickness rather than just a lack of values or morals.
what kind of retard wants to lose just play a video game like call of duty if you want thrills like that. I guarantee once you get your ass cheeks clapped at SnD, you'll never wanna lose again
I blew 500 quid once, and I haven’t gambled since. Best 500 quid I ever spent. (To anyone without an addictive personality that prolly sounds like a joke, but I’m deadly serious.)
I always hated that this sniveling baby gambling degenerate got off with financial problems and a few slaps but Beansie got wheelchair ramps and diapers. Beansie was sort of connected and paid protection to mobsters for decades, Davey was just some crybaby gambler.
He’s not just a moron, he’s an addict. The addiction is so strong that he will lose everything he has and betray everyone in his life simply for a hit.
They didn't try very hard 😊. Just enough to be able to say _"I warned you"_ 😂😂 They knew perfectly well that the only way to get him to not gamble would be to cut him off from the games and the money-loans.
@@tf3217 sounds like you're one of those people that can't see the hustle until it's too late. I've actually got a business proposition for you in that case
@@user-wb8rq2ve6l I see nothing wrong with doing it once a year with a few hundred bucks or something, but yeah I just don't get that high from winning. People think they were one cherry away from a million dollars but they might as well have been a million miles away. When I was only making 35K a year fifteen years ago I remember losing a grand in like thirty minutes and literally felt sick to my stomach.
@ceerious thank you for posting. I love the David Scatino character. It's fascinating watching a normal guy dig himself deeper and deeper in a hole he created especially when even mobsters are warning him to watch his gambling.
The part that’s completely missing from this video of Tony explaining how men like him seek to exploit people like Davey and how Tony has done it hundreds of times before, the fact he can spot and seek out exploitable people like Davey… was absolutely chilling. There’s an analytical process to how Tony discerns people like Davey. In a way, it’s sad though - Tony didn’t want this to happen to him, he denied and even warned him. This show is superb on so many levels
Richie was dealing with the whole Davey situation very well until the executive game honestly. He made sure davey knew how much he was already in debt to him before giving him more, and he only bans him from games until he pays Richie back
Yeah. I understand addiction is no joke. But even Richie was trying to somewhat warn him to stop. Then he's got the balls to go weasel his way into another game while owing a guy thousands of dollars who did him a favor by cutting him off when he did.
There are hints he's already in financial trouble, and he can't directly tap the business for cash without telling his wife what's happening. Totally believable he'd rather risk ruining his family hoping for a miracle (like the bail-out loan he tries to get from Artie) than admit he recklessly gambled away tens of thousands of dollars
@@da3v1ls93 even if he did, he would just gamble it again and again. The addicts dont care if they win or lose. Its all about the dopamine rush of hitting it big over and over again.
Goes from owing Richy 8k to completely losing everything. Tony didn't have to take his entire business and kids collage fund, but it shows how ruthless Tony really was
Personally I couldn't have done that knowing his son was close to my daughter, regardless of how big a slime bag degenerate gambler his dad was. But Tony sold his soul and makes a living off the suffering of others.
I mean yeah there’s that perspective. But in all fairness, Tony did try to keep him out of it. More than once. I think after that, soul or not, you had plenty of warning
@@StepUpMedia039 Tony didn't shove the money down his throat. Davey essentially stole it. It bothers me how Tony is portrayed as the bad person in this specific instance (we all know how Tony did bad bad things). Totally within his right to get back what's owed to him, even if it was through gutting Davey. Friends is friends, but 50k is 50k bud. Tony had principals and one of them is getting back what's owed to him, at any means.
True, but look at who was at the game. Then, factor in there was a piece not shown here, but Tony wakes up to find out Chris kept floating an additional 35k while he slept. With who was there and how deep people knew he was, Tony had to do that, no questions asked.
I think the two Scatino episodes, watched back-to-back, are the Sopranos at its absolute best. From the opening scene with Artie, Tony, and Scatino (the dynamic between the three very different friends from high school) to the set-up and execution of the executive card game with Frank Sinatra, Jr. (Furio setting up the hotel room with the Hasid, Christopher and his flunkies buying the refreshments), to the bust-out of Davey's business and tragic fall-out (Davey's wife and brother-in-law, Meadow and Davey's son), plus Ritchie. To me those two episodes are the show's zenith. Nothing else compares.
@@dadadannn So true! Carmela tries to give a red cooler to Scatino's brother-in-law. Artie gives a free bottle of sparkling water (from the bustout) to Carmela and Scatino's wife! Very ironic. Both scenes. Additionally, didn't they cap off the whole Scatino story with a shot of Tony and AJ fishing with new rods from the bustout? The juxtaposition of Tony's relatively high standing as a father (at least at the moment) with Scatino's fall from any remaining grace that Scatino still might have had was tragicomic.
To go from one of the most intimidating villains in movie history to portraying a weak minded loser like this in Sopranos still impresses me to this day. Great actor!
*Tony manipulated him....warning a gambling addict about how the game is high stakes and too many high rollers is enticing him even more. Tony knew what he was doing.
@@ceerious Yeah, but he kinda made up for the Beansie attack by subsequently cracking LOADS of great jokes about it. I almost feel like he came up with the jokes first, while in prison, and then intentionally fabricated the whole beef with Beansie just to set himself up for all his cool one-liners. Not sure if his comedy game was really that sick, but that's how I like to view that plotline. Haha.
Tony: T-1000 You're doing a good job. T-1000: How? I failed to kill John Connor! Tony: I was talking the gambling debt. T-1000: Oh... Now call to John!
Tony and crew hanging out at the sporting goods store was some of the best comedy in the series. They just hang out all day, eat sandwiches and dip into everything that shows up before they take it out the back door while speculating about what to buy next to sell on the street. Richie's comments about the Nigerian selling coolers on the street is hilarious.
The fact Tony is just open about the fact he purposely let a dude with a gambling addiction get into his high stakes game to get his store really sold the psychopath nature of these Mafia guys.
It's pretty chilling, watching them pick at him like hyenas. Still, Davey only had himself to blame, you can't let your gambling addiction get to that point, guy should've got into crossfit, woodworking, some shit...
The only real victims in that situation was his wife and son. But I felt Eric was in the wrong for yelling at Meadow, when it was his father who took the car from him just to pay off part of the debt.
You are right, however, you gotta look at it from the perspective of the characters. Eric is just a teenager that feels entitled to "his car" , after all his dad bought it for him. And Eric most likely knows that Tony is a mobster, so he can atribute this hole situation to Tony been an a**hole taking away his car. It doesn't help that David didn't explain that he lost it all due to his gambling, revealing he is the one at fault in all of this. And the only person that Eric knows he can explode at without repercusion, is Meadow. All of that, combined with teenage years moodiness, is what made him did what he did, as unjustified as it is.
To be fair, as hypocritical as Tony is for ranting at Meadow about how he "puts food on the table", it's true that she lives in luxury due to his criminal behaviour. I can understand why Eric was annoyed with her, because she lives a cushy life due to his mob status.
Actually, John Connor reprogrammed the T-1000 to go back as a compulsive gambler who loses it all, while getting bullied by the mob. He made sure the T-1000 had no powers, other than to gamble and behave like a sniveling weasel. A cruel joke indeed.
Richie treated this guy fair. Guy addicted - maybe to gambling, maybe to life risks, maybe both. Guy is lucky he lived. Guy shafted Richie. Not many who shafted Richie walked for long.
@@AdVictoriam93 I've lived in a border town and right at the railroad you could see them with their flashlights at night. You ain't shitting these people are evil.
@@johnyvicoThe IRS doesn't cut you in to pieces or flay your chest open alive. They also don't put people out on the street either. You'd be amazed at how willing the IRS is to work with someone who honestly says "I wanna pay this off but I just can't pay it all" they will gladly settle for less AND work out a plan. See, if you actually know what you were talking about you'd know that.
From behind the scenes: To prepare for his role, Patrick attended a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. To reward some of the members for opening up about their problems, he took them out to dinner. In getting to know them, he was told many turned to gambling "as it made them feel powerful, like John Wayne or Sean Connery".
I like how Tony was actually friendly with Davey prior to him getting in debt cause of the card game. Once Davey owed him money, Tony's attitude towards him totally changed. He was merciless, bloodthirsty, up until the debt was paid in full with the sports store bust out. Then, when he met Davey again at the graduation party, Tony was once again friendly because he didn't need to exploit him anymore haha almost like what happened was already forgotten and the guy's life wasn't irredeemably ruined lmao absolute sociopath!
@@michaelputney507agreed, Artie is the only civilian that is protected from that. Even Ralph wouldn't loan him money cuz he knew he couldn't do anything to get it back when he didn't pay. He's a personal friend of the boss.
Him moving to Vegas was pretty fucked up. He definitely would end up homeless/in with the wrong crowd. Without friends like tony to bail him out he’d be dead or worse.
The last scene when Tony says the wrong name of David's wife is very telling. They may have been childhood friends but had devolved into acquaintances by the time David is introduced to the show. Tony & David knew this and were using that former friendship against each other. David thinking he could sweet talk Tony into joining the game and short changing his debts; Tony sweet talking David through reverse psychology to rope his ass into insurmountable debt.
Davey sounded irritated that Tony couldn't even remember his wife's name. Davey really ain't give no fs at that point. He hopeless & outta luck & stuck like Chuck.
Never really caught the significance of the last thing he said. He just lost his whole life to gambling and he is moving out west to start a new life in a totally different environment... that is a 30 minute drive from Las Vegas. He is doomed again.
That last scene is horrific. Still chipper, still open to seeing Tony. Going off West to some farming job as a middle aged guy well past his prime. And still going to gamble every penny he has in Vegas. Odds are he dies alone in some shit motel. Great showcase of what the mob can do to people.
The mob didn't do that to him - he did it to himself. That's the sad reality of this story, people are their own worst enemies. Do you blame a meat grinder if some idiot sticks his hand in it? Of course not.
I feel bad for Davey. He changed his life from trying to kill the leader of human resistance to becoming a sports goods salesman, and could have decimated the whole Soprano crew but chose not to raise a hand, and paid his dues in the end, without any hard feelings. Respect.
Psyco anger aside, richie wasn't as bad in comparison to some of the other wiseguys he was friendly to civvies like the younger people and really tried to help davey from himself
6:48 it’s very difficult to see this guy play a spineless coward. He went from a menacing, nightmarish literal killing machine as the T1000 to this….I can’t buy into it 😂
Its hard to sympathize? seriously? he wasn't stealing from his family to feed his addiction, everything he lost was his, and its not like he was blowing it all up his nose.
@@shrector123He kinda did. He blew his son's college fund to feed his gambling addiction. I do feel bad to an extent because it is a genuine disease that needs to be treated but still.
It is so great how davey wants tony to “come hang out in Vegas” You can see in his eyes that he wants tony to keep getting chewed up and spit out by gambling the same way he did “New day” heh heh And In the last season we see him sink deeper and deeper into betting and gambling it’s so ironic how he acts all superior in these seasons
@@rodrigomunoz9217 because he was going to continue flirting with Tony's wife Carmella, but hearing Davey mention he's mobbed up it made him realise what he's getting himself into if he keeps going. Watch the series , it's great.
@@liltrue8420 i think Vic knew Tony was a mob boss before David told him. In a previous episode, Vic and his sister went to Carmela house and his sister told Vic “forget about it she is Tony soprano wife”
@@rodrigomunoz9217 yeah, but that didn't exactly expose if he's mobbed up or he's just a tough guy plus she he may have taken it as they're rich and have pull, I'm sure his suspicion was definitely worrisome for him until he found out for sure from Davey
Ppl say that Davey encouraged them not to gamble. But what most don’t realize is that if he kept gambling and sold his business directly to Tony for an incredible rate he could’ve kept gambling and made it big. Sadly he became part of the 90 percent 😢
Eric’s father was a total loser, and Meadow’s was a winner. And she just got his most prized possession as a result. The humiliation was too much for him to handle
@@brianbernstein3826my dad was a bad gambler and his bookie was this jerk who worked at the post office with him and retired early. I never liked the guy and my mom didn't either and I made sure I reminded him how I didn't like him when I got older. But my dad never took from us, we always had everything we needed and more. He always did nice things for us and with us, my sister and mom and I. But I HATED Charlie his bookie and I always wanted to rob him or beat him up but he died a few years back and I felt sad for my dad since he lost a friend.
That last scene isn't just so you can pitty David as learning nothing. It's also Tony absolving himself of destroying this man. In his head it justifies everything he did.
Love how it’s not stated but implied he’s also in debt up to his eyeballs legally. Enormous house with a second mortgage, basement with a pool table, not to mention an SUV for Eric and private school
Right. I always wondered how a guy with all that and a successful business couldn't come up with the 40 or 50 "boxes of ziti". Makes a lot of sense that he was already over leveraged.
i'd never noticed the "easy does it" sign in the stairwell when the wife comes down to the basement. points to the fact that Davey had been in recovery for gambling. makes his powerlessness more heartbreaking
“I don’t do something, how’s it gonna look?” Tony said to Richie. One major difference between Tony, and the old school boss, Carmine Sr., was that Tony couldn’t resist the urge to justify his decisions when the power move would have been not to.
Davey brought all of this on himself, he has no one to blame but him. He should of recognised his gambling addiction early on before he owes money to his lovely and caring friends. He deserved everything he got. Even Richie was reasonable with him!
Nonsense. You're talking from the perspective of someone who's never had an addiction or never dealt with someone who had an addiction. My own father gambled tens of thousands of dollars away. He had enough money to cover it. He was a lawyer. Eventually he went bankrupt but it didn't really affect him, because he knew the rules. Davey is a victim of his addiction. He can't see it. Just like we can't see it. We are only scratching the surface of the molecular biology involved with addiction.
@@jimreily7538 I realise that addiction is very hard to beat and he should be given some mercy because of this. However, addiction or no addiction, he is accountable for his actions and should take responsibility. Anyone who has an addiction should seek out therapy to try to beat it or attempt to regain control of it. One can’t excuse a victim mentality.
In season 4 Tony tells Artie “they start missing payments then they act like they’re doing you a favor when they give you anything”. 0:33 and the part they cut out right before this speaks to that line
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There's a brief mention in Season 3 that this is also what happened to the original owner of Satriale's, a "bust out" that Tony's father profited from, and that owner is said to have killed himself after.
Richie ironically tried to keep davie away from gambling. "I don't want to see you at any of my games until you're paid up" it was Tony that buried him.
Show was really good at world building. That Frank Sinatra Jr and all these rich guys like to come to Tony’s card games really sets the scene. But unlike Davey, they had money to blow.
@@Erwooten23Yes, here 2 bad guys give him a warning. 2 more warnings than a mere guy in the street. Then Davey jumps to the precipice of crossroads under his subspecies. A real pro actor Robert Patrick, he nailed the character.
It’s pretty rare for me to learn something new about an actor I know and love, but I literally just found out that Robert Patrick’s little brother, Richard Patrick, is the lead singer of Filter. Yeah, the Hey Man, Nice Shot guy.
Davey owned quite a large sporting goods store. It's surprising to me that he needed to borrow money in order to gamble. But maybe he owed money to other people.
He mentions during the game that Nike and NBA having their own stores is cutting into the profits but he has “big ideas” for next year. To me that seems to imply they aren’t sitting on a lot of disposable income for Davey to piss away
He owed money to Richie eight grand I think he says.Eight grand shouldn't have been that bad to pay back if he owned a sporting good store that did pretty good buisness.
@roberthagmaier9603 He could've sold off an asset way earlier, like a car, to pay the $8k off and he would've made life a little easier on himself. But he decided to chase the money by gambling more. Exactly what addicts do.
This character single handedly kept me away from gambling
good. gambling is one of the worst addictions in my opinion
Gambling is like any other addictive vice - it's a matter of scale and stakes. If it wasn't for literally millions of penny slot machine and dollar lottery addicts the worldwide gambling industry would surely have collapsed decades ago. The stakes are so low that those people can piss away a lot without losing their rent and food money.
Davey is part of a much smaller subset of problem gamblers who insist on playing high stakes games with money they know full well they either don't have or can't spare. It's literal financial Russian Roulette and they get a big charge of adrenaline when they're looking down the barrel of ruination. That adrenaline rush might as well be heroin for this type of person, because it affects them exactly the same. They're not even afraid of pain or death or losing their families.
Most effective anti-gambling ad in history.
@@hughiedgar7574 indeed
Fun fact: 90% of gambling addicts go to rehab right before they’re about to win BIG.
Robert Patrick did such a great job portraying a person facing gambling addiction. The deflecting. The “it’s not that bad” mentality. So good.
He's a very underrated actor. He's currently the villain in Season 2 of Reacher
@@CraigSmithII oh now I definitely gotta watch it.
That's the writing
@@based-ys9um Yes, the writing was good but Patrick has also played roles of intimidating characters. I think this role really shows his range.
Such a great character. He plays the desperate gambler who loses everything so well... of course the writing was legendary. Just so good
Davey Scatino, the man who learned absolutely nothing from staring down the barrel of the mob.
oh indeed
@@ceerious not hard to imagine what went down in Nevada. Seems Meadow thought he wound up in a mental health facility.
I think it's a lot like the many connected guys that "went into witness protection". That sad mf is in a hole somewhere in the desert, one plot over from Nicky and his kid brutha.
@@TheAntiTrope he was just as bad as the rest of the characters. painted in a different way.
Guy had a serious Gambling addiction.
He hit rock bottom and had nothing to lose. Disgraced and disowned by his family, broke. It’s hard to see recovery after going that low.
Tony giving meadow eric’s jeep thinking she was gonna be happy will always be hilarious 😂😂
😂
Why didn’t he at least send it to Pussy’s shop and change it up a little? Like he did to Mr. Miller’s car (AJ’s teacher)
Am I wrong or does that end up being AJs jeep? Doesn't he get a yellow one just like it later on?
HBO has no commericals so NISSAN and Coca Cola you see alot in the show etc@@Downerfunk
I always thought it was more about showing Meadow actual power Tony had more than trying to make her happy
Richie was very patient with Davey. Knowing how Richie is, Davey got off easy
big time. or he'd be with Beansie in florida
If Tony hadn’t intervened he probably would’ve been in the hospital after getting caught at the executive game. But that would’ve been a bad move because then he wouldn’t be able to order everything on credit for the bust out and they would’ve ended up getting stiffed.
richie literally told davey not to gamble anymore until he paid him back in full. lol
Agreed
Ritchie actually warned Davey more than Tony did. He at least made an effort to stop him gambling while in debt. Tony didn't
That last clip always gets me. Even Tony is left speechless, unable to comprehend how someone can have all that happen to him and still not get it.
Davey seems uncharacteristically sober in the last scene and lucid. He seems to be baiting Tony to fall for his own game. If I’m not mixing up seasons, Tony goes to Vegas not long after, and falls into his own gambling addiction (through numbness) which gets worse during the Indian casino arc. Long time since I’ve seen the show might be mixing up the timeline
Vegas huh?......Alright Davey, take care of yourself.
Maybe it’s just me. I thought Scatino was subtly suggesting potential menace.
@@ZeligUbique Yeah, I also felt that. Like he will do some unapropriate stuff there.
The power of addiction.
I always loved watching the T-1000 play such a broke loser. It shows what a great actor Robert Patrick is.
great actor for sure
I wish there was a scene of him making beef stew.
Hush troll
It shows what a great prototype T-1000 was.
im mad that i didnt realize until this comment
For me the fear of losing is greater than the thrill of winning. I still remember how it felt when I lost a bet as a kid and had to pay the debt with something I treasured
That's how it is for most people, it's called loss aversion. The impact of losing $1 is twice that of gaining $1. But for gamblers the mental wiring is different, where winning $1 has far more impact than losing even $2. That's probably why now they're seeing it as a sickness rather than just a lack of values or morals.
what kind of retard wants to lose just play a video game like call of duty if you want thrills like that. I guarantee once you get your ass cheeks clapped at SnD, you'll never wanna lose again
You paid with your ass?
I blew 500 quid once, and I haven’t gambled since.
Best 500 quid I ever spent.
(To anyone without an addictive personality that prolly sounds like a joke, but I’m deadly serious.)
Your country president once lose to me twice
"I didn't really expect to gamble tonight..."
-David "Davey" Scatino
🤣
😂😂
He was just in the neighborhood, thought he’d say hello
"By the way, I need 50 boxes of ziti" lmao
Also what people with a drinking problem say. “Well I wasn’t planning on drinking tonight but f*ck it I’ll have just one.”
Davey tilting the coffee urn struggling to get the last remnant of coffee perfectly sums up his story.
That's what I said, can't catch a break, not even the last drop of coffee 😂
@@shambles416 walt fuckin whitman over here
I always hated that this sniveling baby gambling degenerate got off with financial problems and a few slaps but Beansie got wheelchair ramps and diapers. Beansie was sort of connected and paid protection to mobsters for decades, Davey was just some crybaby gambler.
Very allegorical
And Toni getting a full cup. Sums it up perfectly. Very allegorical.
Watching this you feel little sympathy for Scatino, even the mobsters tried to talk him out of getting involved with mobsters, he was a moron.
He’s not just a moron, he’s an addict. The addiction is so strong that he will lose everything he has and betray everyone in his life simply for a hit.
They didn't try very hard 😊. Just enough to be able to say _"I warned you"_ 😂😂
They knew perfectly well that the only way to get him to not gamble would be to cut him off from the games and the money-loans.
@@donarthiazi2443sounds like you're one of those people that can't take responsibility for their own actions😂
@@tf3217 sounds like you're one of those people that can't see the hustle until it's too late. I've actually got a business proposition for you in that case
It's not easy for a loser to become a chronic gambler
I know two gambling addicts that both lost everything. Their wives, houses, kids, literally everything. It's one of the worst addictions you can have.
That's why I don't gamble. I work too hard for my money just to lose it like that.
@@user-wb8rq2ve6l I see nothing wrong with doing it once a year with a few hundred bucks or something, but yeah I just don't get that high from winning. People think they were one cherry away from a million dollars but they might as well have been a million miles away.
When I was only making 35K a year fifteen years ago I remember losing a grand in like thirty minutes and literally felt sick to my stomach.
But it looks like fun,I've seen all the commercials.
@shawnkennedy855 The media and ads always try to turn us into misrable degenerates.
Davey Scatino and who else?
I never understood why Davey doesn't just use his liquid metal abilities and kill them all.
he couldn't sell it.
@ceerious thank you for posting. I love the David Scatino character. It's fascinating watching a normal guy dig himself deeper and deeper in a hole he created especially when even mobsters are warning him to watch his gambling.
@@joestimemachine6454 yup. i was a gambler when i was younger. terrible addiction. Davey took it to the extreme with the car and the college fund
@ceerious glad you kicked that habit. I was a heavy drug user in my youth so I tend to sympathize with Christopher. Keep these vids coming 🙂
@@joestimemachine6454 i feel you. i will! ill think of something for the week
The part that’s completely missing from this video of Tony explaining how men like him seek to exploit people like Davey and how Tony has done it hundreds of times before, the fact he can spot and seek out exploitable people like Davey… was absolutely chilling. There’s an analytical process to how Tony discerns people like Davey.
In a way, it’s sad though - Tony didn’t want this to happen to him, he denied and even warned him.
This show is superb on so many levels
I mean Tony told him not to get involved 3 different times it’s on David he walked into it
The denial is part of the game.
You’re telling a gambler that the game is too big for them to play? NOW HE HAS TO PLAY!!
The cut from the "frog and the scorpion" explanation to Davey with a gun in his mouth cracked me up
@@acomart1
LOL I just now noticed that after reading your comment. Hilarious.
If a Mobster says"i like you",and"stay away from this shit",had better you approve his advice😊
Richie was dealing with the whole Davey situation very well until the executive game honestly. He made sure davey knew how much he was already in debt to him before giving him more, and he only bans him from games until he pays Richie back
Richie’s only fuck up was Beansie. And it was personal.
@@alexandrostheodorou8387 Aren't we forgetting his fatal fuckup with Janice?
@@alexandrostheodorou8387But he was a stand up guy
The look on Tony's face when Richie mentions that Davey is into him for '8 large' already - so good
Like a pimp says to his hos....keep em coming. Guy hands ya a light envelope, just the beginning.
I feel so bad for Davey but at the same time, he was poking around with the wrong people.
He did it to himself. That’s what happens when you gamble like he did.
Yeah. I understand addiction is no joke. But even Richie was trying to somewhat warn him to stop. Then he's got the balls to go weasel his way into another game while owing a guy thousands of dollars who did him a favor by cutting him off when he did.
@@BallBatteryReligionYes ,Richie was in his more humanitarian mood and Scatino jump to the abyss of debt with Tony😮
@BallBatteryReligion I think that is why Richie was so pissed
tf you feel bad for him for?
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@@ceerious BORKOs still in Elvis country where dere ain't no joooos or 'talians... Hehheheh
@@ceerious Alright, hook him up for another upload.
It’s started!!!!
@@Incel_81 GET BACK IN YOUR FUCKIN HOLE!! *Few seconds later* Davey. You're doing a good job Davey.
Guy owns a sporting goods store and his life gets ruined playing poker with mobsters for 53 boxes of ziti
I know right I guess the early 00s a couple racks was a lot but still he should’ve been fine up to 20-40gs
Not even the good ziti. You hate to see it
There are hints he's already in financial trouble, and he can't directly tap the business for cash without telling his wife what's happening. Totally believable he'd rather risk ruining his family hoping for a miracle (like the bail-out loan he tries to get from Artie) than admit he recklessly gambled away tens of thousands of dollars
@@davino108 bro wants to feel superior to a fictional character
Karen's frozen Ziti was all that matters the rest is fugazi!
At the end of having gambled away his business, his wife, and his kids potential prospect he still cant beat it. The final scene is so sad.
Don't bitch to me , gamble with your head , not over it
Yep. As soon as he mentioned Vegas you know he’s just gonna keep on gambling.
Hopefully he wins the mega millions and is ok for a few months
@@da3v1ls93 even if he did, he would just gamble it again and again. The addicts dont care if they win or lose. Its all about the dopamine rush of hitting it big over and over again.
At least he’s not dead he might have to start over again but hopefully he learned
The brother in law was a real man for paying college fund
100%
Yeah you can’t beat that
You guys would too
@@travis396I wouldn’t
Carmella shoulda hit that, I bet Vick woulda smashed that,
Tony Soprano: "Cristofuh, I want you to go with Davey down to Cyberdyne Systems and help him take out this John Connor guy or whateva"
Robert Patrick does an awesome job in this role. There's a rumor he personally interviewed many gamblers to prepare to play Davey.
wow thats awesome. i didnt know he interviewed gamblers. he had it pegged
Rumor? He said it himself on the Talking Sopranos podcast about this episode. 😂
@@mikey8088Relax, have a cawfee.
Well he found some real gems, because he's got me 100% sold on the idea that he's a complete degen loser.
I even FORGOT that he was the T-1000! 😳
@@JR-vi4rl have some plesauh'.
Goes from owing Richy 8k to completely losing everything. Tony didn't have to take his entire business and kids collage fund, but it shows how ruthless Tony really was
Personally I couldn't have done that knowing his son was close to my daughter, regardless of how big a slime bag degenerate gambler his dad was.
But Tony sold his soul and makes a living off the suffering of others.
I mean yeah there’s that perspective. But in all fairness, Tony did try to keep him out of it. More than once. I think after that, soul or not, you had plenty of warning
@@StepUpMedia039 Tony didn't shove the money down his throat. Davey essentially stole it. It bothers me how Tony is portrayed as the bad person in this specific instance (we all know how Tony did bad bad things). Totally within his right to get back what's owed to him, even if it was through gutting Davey. Friends is friends, but 50k is 50k bud. Tony had principals and one of them is getting back what's owed to him, at any means.
True, but look at who was at the game. Then, factor in there was a piece not shown here, but Tony wakes up to find out Chris kept floating an additional 35k while he slept.
With who was there and how deep people knew he was, Tony had to do that, no questions asked.
@@StepUpMedia039If Tony didn't take it he just would have gambled that away too
Lol Davey shows up to the secret location hotel where Tony is having the executive game and says "I wasn't really expecting to gamble tonight." 😂
I think the two Scatino episodes, watched back-to-back, are the Sopranos at its absolute best. From the opening scene with Artie, Tony, and Scatino (the dynamic between the three very different friends from high school) to the set-up and execution of the executive card game with Frank Sinatra, Jr. (Furio setting up the hotel room with the Hasid, Christopher and his flunkies buying the refreshments), to the bust-out of Davey's business and tragic fall-out (Davey's wife and brother-in-law, Meadow and Davey's son), plus Ritchie. To me those two episodes are the show's zenith. Nothing else compares.
definitely was up there
agreed
Very allegorical
My favourite detail is all the stuff from the bustout gets seen in random scenes throughout the episode. Best product placement ever
@@dadadannn So true! Carmela tries to give a red cooler to Scatino's brother-in-law. Artie gives a free bottle of sparkling water (from the bustout) to Carmela and Scatino's wife! Very ironic. Both scenes. Additionally, didn't they cap off the whole Scatino story with a shot of Tony and AJ fishing with new rods from the bustout? The juxtaposition of Tony's relatively high standing as a father (at least at the moment) with Scatino's fall from any remaining grace that Scatino still might have had was tragicomic.
To go from one of the most intimidating villains in movie history to portraying a weak minded loser like this in Sopranos still impresses me to this day. Great actor!
The sad part is Tony warned him
Not just once, multiple times.
*Tony manipulated him....warning a gambling addict about how the game is high stakes and too many high rollers is enticing him even more. Tony knew what he was doing.
Rich was actually fairly decent towards David tbf
Richie wasnt that bad besides the beansie incident.
True, he never made him into a shopping cart.
I agree and he was well warned
@@ceerious Yeah, but he kinda made up for the Beansie attack by subsequently cracking LOADS of great jokes about it.
I almost feel like he came up with the jokes first, while in prison, and then intentionally fabricated the whole beef with Beansie just to set himself up for all his cool one-liners.
Not sure if his comedy game was really that sick, but that's how I like to view that plotline. Haha.
richie was also a strong feminist supporter
Davey... You're doing a good job!
Tony: T-1000 You're doing a good job.
T-1000: How? I failed to kill John Connor!
Tony: I was talking the gambling debt.
T-1000: Oh... Now call to John!
Tony was a great motivator , his high school coach always told him he was special.
GET BACK IN YOUR HOLE!
The only doing better is Brownie.
Tony and crew hanging out at the sporting goods store was some of the best comedy in the series. They just hang out all day, eat sandwiches and dip into everything that shows up before they take it out the back door while speculating about what to buy next to sell on the street. Richie's comments about the Nigerian selling coolers on the street is hilarious.
i made an animation from that lol
The fact Tony is just open about the fact he purposely let a dude with a gambling addiction get into his high stakes game to get his store really sold the psychopath nature of these Mafia guys.
It's pretty chilling, watching them pick at him like hyenas. Still, Davey only had himself to blame, you can't let your gambling addiction get to that point, guy should've got into crossfit, woodworking, some shit...
"Sell it for a couple of 3 bucks, who's not gonna say f*ck it, give me one of those?!" 😂😂
Having the poor delivery guy put the sandwiches on the store tab is even more hilarious.
What happened to Davey Scatino was pretty sad, but seeing it destroy his son's life makes it all worth it.
all that off-roading he did was unacceptable! lol
never had the makings of a varisty off-roader@@ceerious
It was beautiful
The level of care? Eric was cryin
Hey the kid lost his jeep , a little sympathy
"ACCOUNTABILITY IS EVERYTHING!" - David "Davey' Scatino.
The only real victims in that situation was his wife and son. But I felt Eric was in the wrong for yelling at Meadow, when it was his father who took the car from him just to pay off part of the debt.
exactly i agree
You are right, however, you gotta look at it from the perspective of the characters. Eric is just a teenager that feels entitled to "his car" , after all his dad bought it for him. And Eric most likely knows that Tony is a mobster, so he can atribute this hole situation to Tony been an a**hole taking away his car. It doesn't help that David didn't explain that he lost it all due to his gambling, revealing he is the one at fault in all of this. And the only person that Eric knows he can explode at without repercusion, is Meadow. All of that, combined with teenage years moodiness, is what made him did what he did, as unjustified as it is.
@@kiracaos
HaHa... *"hole* situation"!! 😂😂
Hey, Davey is lucky he didn't get a... _whole_ in his head 😂😂😂😂😂
To be fair, as hypocritical as Tony is for ranting at Meadow about how he "puts food on the table", it's true that she lives in luxury due to his criminal behaviour. I can understand why Eric was annoyed with her, because she lives a cushy life due to his mob status.
Lol she played dumb by believing that car was actually a 'gift' he was pissed because she had every opportunity to give it back and chose not to
Tony giving Meadow Eric's jeep, and honestly thinking she was gonna be ok with it, is just hilarious 😂
A grown man made a wager, he lost it
End of fucking story
It’s not worse than how the soprano crew passed around Janice and Rosalie Aprile amongst each other like they were huewahs
@@leftifornian2066this is my bread and buttah
@@fascinatinglist9654 🤢 🤮
He didn't even get it detailed and remove the bandana hanging from the mirror lol. Probably didn't bother w the registration either
After failing to eliminate John Connor the T-1000 fell on hard times and got involved with the wrong crowd 😂
this was all part of its punishment from Skynet for failing its mission
Actually, John Connor reprogrammed the T-1000 to go back as a compulsive gambler who loses it all, while getting bullied by the mob. He made sure the T-1000 had no powers, other than to gamble and behave like a sniveling weasel. A cruel joke indeed.
Robert Patrick knocked it out of the park with this role. Highly recommend the movie Cop Land, plays a great villain in the movie.
check my analysis on gloria i love copland
9:03 now don’t be feeling sorry for him guys . He is a grown ass man who begged Tony to be let into the exec game. He took a gamble and he lost. 🤷♂️
thats how i felt about it.
@@ceerious 👍
Davey forgot that in the end house Always wins.
Richie treated this guy fair. Guy addicted - maybe to gambling, maybe to life risks, maybe both. Guy is lucky he lived. Guy shafted Richie. Not many who shafted Richie walked for long.
yup
Yeah, he shafted him. He didn’t even offer to a veal parm sandwich.
"Guy addicted - maybe to gambling" - Definitely addicted to gambling...
Richie got in on the same bust-out that Tony initiated.
Daveyyyyy you’re doing a good job 😂
Cracks me up every time
Someone get Davey a dwink!
You could tell he wanted to compliment him again after that too but held back 😂
Owing a gambling debt to the MAFIA is absolute INSANITY!
Doesn't compare to owing a debt to the Mexican cartel.
@@AdVictoriam93 I've lived in a border town and right at the railroad you could see them with their flashlights at night. You ain't shitting these people are evil.
@@AdVictoriam93or worse the IRS
@@johnyvicoThe IRS doesn't cut you in to pieces or flay your chest open alive. They also don't put people out on the street either. You'd be amazed at how willing the IRS is to work with someone who honestly says "I wanna pay this off but I just can't pay it all" they will gladly settle for less AND work out a plan. See, if you actually know what you were talking about you'd know that.
@@johnroscoe2406it’s not that serious
Thank God they ended the episode before Meadow sang Celine Dion 😂
😂😂😂
afterall, celine dion is the"greatest singer in the world"!
just ask her,she'll tell you!
@@jamessollazzo4860 🤢 Celine is overrated
From behind the scenes:
To prepare for his role, Patrick attended a Gamblers Anonymous meeting. To reward some of the members for opening up about their problems, he took them out to dinner. In getting to know them, he was told many turned to gambling "as it made them feel powerful, like John Wayne or Sean Connery".
That sounds made up
Or Gary Cooper, the strong silent type!
@@Klonkus
Actors used to take their rolls seriously.
@@deeta000 Yeah but old people like to tell tall tales, they should be called out.
@@Klonkus You sound like an idiot who is talking out of his ass.
I like how Tony was actually friendly with Davey prior to him getting in debt cause of the card game. Once Davey owed him money, Tony's attitude towards him totally changed. He was merciless, bloodthirsty, up until the debt was paid in full with the sports store bust out.
Then, when he met Davey again at the graduation party, Tony was once again friendly because he didn't need to exploit him anymore haha almost like what happened was already forgotten and the guy's life wasn't irredeemably ruined lmao absolute sociopath!
In the mob, everyone but the family is prey. Same with Artie. Longtime child friends with Tony but cross a line and you are prey to be exploited.
Not tony's fault to be honest, Cant be friends with the guy that owes you some serious money
Artie owed Tony $51500 at one point though and he got a pass
@@michaelputney507agreed, Artie is the only civilian that is protected from that. Even Ralph wouldn't loan him money cuz he knew he couldn't do anything to get it back when he didn't pay. He's a personal friend of the boss.
Him moving to Vegas was pretty fucked up. He definitely would end up homeless/in with the wrong crowd. Without friends like tony to bail him out he’d be dead or worse.
yup
I think it's Meadow who mentions in S3 that Davey ended up in a mental institution in Nevada.
Always with the scenarios...
@@Kloverkill
_"Always with the negative waves Moriarty"!_
Laughing at him at the end would be the last blow to Davey's esteem and acting like tony gave a shit about his condition was an over kill
The last scene when Tony says the wrong name of David's wife is very telling.
They may have been childhood friends but had devolved into acquaintances by the time David is introduced to the show.
Tony & David knew this and were using that former friendship against each other.
David thinking he could sweet talk Tony into joining the game and short changing his debts; Tony sweet talking David through reverse psychology to rope his ass into insurmountable debt.
wow nicely put. especially the davey thinkin he could sweet talk part. yup. 🎯
Davey sounded irritated that Tony couldn't even remember his wife's name. Davey really ain't give no fs at that point. He hopeless & outta luck & stuck like Chuck.
Davey didn't realise that Tony was no longer the kid on the school bus.
Never really caught the significance of the last thing he said. He just lost his whole life to gambling and he is moving out west to start a new life in a totally different environment... that is a 30 minute drive from Las Vegas. He is doomed again.
Him inviting Tony out there made it seem like he wanted to kill him
"Don't reminisce on me" is so cold 🔥
I’d cave and be like “Oh yeah, you maniac! Wanna get some beer? You know what, forget that debt.”
6:47 one of my favorite line deliveries
That last scene is horrific. Still chipper, still open to seeing Tony. Going off West to some farming job as a middle aged guy well past his prime. And still going to gamble every penny he has in Vegas. Odds are he dies alone in some shit motel. Great showcase of what the mob can do to people.
The mob didn't do that to him - he did it to himself.
That's the sad reality of this story, people are their own worst enemies.
Do you blame a meat grinder if some idiot sticks his hand in it? Of course not.
gambling s*cks, stay away from that s**t
He did it to himself lol what are you talking about
It really is horrific
@@mickeypopa It was a bit of both tbh, as Tony said, he saw an opportunity when Davey wanted to gamble.
I feel bad for Davey. He changed his life from trying to kill the leader of human resistance to becoming a sports goods salesman, and could have decimated the whole Soprano crew but chose not to raise a hand, and paid his dues in the end, without any hard feelings. Respect.
😆 🤣
He knew he had some bad karma to offload by enduring his suffering with grace
You know the writing is good when it gives you second hand despair
Whenever I feel depressed I watch the Davey Scatino story, then I feel remarkably better.
Davey Scatino is to the Sopranos what Gil is to the Simpsons.
Davey can't even get a break with the coffee at the end.
This was Skynets punishment on the T-1000 for failing to eliminate John Connor
lmao
I heard Vegas is good for people trying to get rid of gambling addiction...how people never learn is just astonishing to me.
Psyco anger aside, richie wasn't as bad in comparison to some of the other wiseguys he was friendly to civvies like the younger people and really tried to help davey from himself
Richie was misunderstood by many.
6:48 it’s very difficult to see this guy play a spineless coward. He went from a menacing, nightmarish literal killing machine as the T1000 to this….I can’t buy into it 😂
"Tony I'm sorry I'm having some bad luck"
"Oh yeah? It just got worse." BAM!
Hard to sympathize with Davey Scatino.
An addict is an addict...
Degenerate gamblers are the worse!
No it’s not. He’s weak so what? You never been weak??
Its hard to sympathize? seriously? he wasn't stealing from his family to feed his addiction, everything he lost was his, and its not like he was blowing it all up his nose.
@@shrector123He kinda did. He blew his son's college fund to feed his gambling addiction. I do feel bad to an extent because it is a genuine disease that needs to be treated but still.
It is so great how davey wants tony to “come hang out in Vegas”
You can see in his eyes that he wants tony to keep getting chewed up and spit out by gambling the same way he did
“New day” heh heh
And In the last season we see him sink deeper and deeper into betting and gambling it’s so ironic how he acts all superior in these seasons
This should play on a loop under the sign welcoming people to Las Vegas.
i went to vegas once and will never go back. its a big illusion
cant even describe how this story disgusts me
i will never fucking gamble in my life
i was a degenerate gambler. worst thing to be. i quit and not going back. not worth the stress.
If you think about it davey unknowingly saved vick from getting killed by going into debt with tony
How.
@@rodrigomunoz9217 because he was going to continue flirting with Tony's wife Carmella, but hearing Davey mention he's mobbed up it made him realise what he's getting himself into if he keeps going. Watch the series , it's great.
@@liltrue8420 i think Vic knew Tony was a mob boss before David told him. In a previous episode, Vic and his sister went to Carmela house and his sister told Vic “forget about it she is Tony soprano wife”
@@rodrigomunoz9217 yeah, but that didn't exactly expose if he's mobbed up or he's just a tough guy plus she he may have taken it as they're rich and have pull, I'm sure his suspicion was definitely worrisome for him until he found out for sure from Davey
That’s why Tony’s dad told him never to gamble
yup.
Ironically later on in the series - Tony was on a big losing streak gambling on Horse racing and was actually contemplating not paying his debts.
Well, at least maybe he can find some closure and peace out west.
"Fly right into Vegas..."
Nevermind.
Ppl say that Davey encouraged them not to gamble. But what most don’t realize is that if he kept gambling and sold his business directly to Tony for an incredible rate he could’ve kept gambling and made it big. Sadly he became part of the 90 percent 😢
Are you and the six people who clicked Like stupid?
Davey's brother in law might be the morally best person in the entire series
hmmm. maybe the shrink Carmela saw
Yeah but we only saw him for one scene so it’s hard to say
Eric’s father was a total loser, and Meadow’s was a winner. And she just got his most prized possession as a result. The humiliation was too much for him to handle
@@brianbernstein3826my dad was a bad gambler and his bookie was this jerk who worked at the post office with him and retired early. I never liked the guy and my mom didn't either and I made sure I reminded him how I didn't like him when I got older. But my dad never took from us, we always had everything we needed and more. He always did nice things for us and with us, my sister and mom and I. But I HATED Charlie his bookie and I always wanted to rob him or beat him up but he died a few years back and I felt sad for my dad since he lost a friend.
And Barbara
That last scene isn't just so you can pitty David as learning nothing. It's also Tony absolving himself of destroying this man. In his head it justifies everything he did.
This isn't the end of Scantino's story. He's mentioned I think twice after we last see him. Meadow mentions him being in a mental institution.
Love how it’s not stated but implied he’s also in debt up to his eyeballs legally. Enormous house with a second mortgage, basement with a pool table, not to mention an SUV for Eric and private school
Right. I always wondered how a guy with all that and a successful business couldn't come up with the 40 or 50 "boxes of ziti". Makes a lot of sense that he was already over leveraged.
Paulies expression when Tone yells at Davey to go back in his hole is priceless. Man loves the drama
I actually thought the frog and the scorpion analogy was totally on point and helped me understand how Tony could be so cutthroat.
🎯
At least he was honest and upfront
The scatino bust out is one of the most satisfying arcs in the entire series
Whenever I have anxiety in my life I just rewatch the Davey Scatino saga clips. Makes me feel better about it all.
i wouldnt be able to stomach losing everything
Meadow looked outstanding in the scene with the argument with Eric.
Paulie's face at 6:00.says it all 🤣 he and the rest of these mobsters enjoy watching people suffer. Such sociopathic behavior
They dont make T-1000s like they used to.. hehehehehe
Idiot...
Ha ha ha ha 😂😂😂😂
0:59 yeah you know me - T1000 polymimetic alloy.
Great comment 😂
00:20 im gonna tell my kids this is Neo from the Matrix
Neo is a hero in this house , end of story !
*Nero
i'd never noticed the "easy does it" sign in the stairwell when the wife comes down to the basement. points to the fact that Davey had been in recovery for gambling. makes his powerlessness more heartbreaking
“I don’t do something, how’s it gonna look?” Tony said to Richie. One major difference between Tony, and the old school boss, Carmine Sr., was that Tony couldn’t resist the urge to justify his decisions when the power move would have been not to.
exactly
Davey brought all of this on himself, he has no one to blame but him. He should of recognised his gambling addiction early on before he owes money to his lovely and caring friends. He deserved everything he got. Even Richie was reasonable with him!
100%
Nonsense. You're talking from the perspective of someone who's never had an addiction or never dealt with someone who had an addiction.
My own father gambled tens of thousands of dollars away. He had enough money to cover it. He was a lawyer. Eventually he went bankrupt but it didn't really affect him, because he knew the rules.
Davey is a victim of his addiction. He can't see it. Just like we can't see it. We are only scratching the surface of the molecular biology involved with addiction.
@@jimreily7538 I realise that addiction is very hard to beat and he should be given some mercy because of this. However, addiction or no addiction, he is accountable for his actions and should take responsibility. Anyone who has an addiction should seek out therapy to try to beat it or attempt to regain control of it. One can’t excuse a victim mentality.
The ‘Easy Does It’ sign in the basement is a clever, subtle touch. As a mantra of AA, it suggests that at one point Davey was in a 12 step program
In season 4 Tony tells Artie “they start missing payments then they act like they’re doing you a favor when they give you anything”. 0:33 and the part they cut out right before this speaks to that line
When Richie Aprile is the voice of reason about your gambling, you have a problem.
hahaha so true
Thank you so much for putting all these clips together! Love your vids!
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There's a brief mention in Season 3 that this is also what happened to the original owner of Satriale's, a "bust out" that Tony's father profited from, and that owner is said to have killed himself after.
Richie ironically tried to keep davie away from gambling. "I don't want to see you at any of my games until you're paid up" it was Tony that buried him.
yup
Tony even tried to warn him
The T-1000 can take on musclebond Arnie; but he can't take out Manson Lamps or Tony.
His programming forbids him fighting those he owns money to. 😂
Show was really good at world building. That Frank Sinatra Jr and all these rich guys like to come to Tony’s card games really sets the scene. But unlike Davey, they had money to blow.
Damn watching this again I could see how Tony was setting him up. Ain’t no love in them streets!!!
He did it to himself. He borrowed 53 thousand dollars, he agreed to the terms.he lost.
When a "bad guy" tells you to "walk away" you walk away. He's giving you a way out.
@@Erwooten23Yes, here 2 bad guys give him a warning. 2 more warnings than a mere guy in the street. Then Davey jumps to the precipice of crossroads under his subspecies. A real pro actor Robert Patrick, he nailed the character.
One of the best deliveries of the F word ever.
Davy always looks like he's about one transaction or one phone call away from a nervous breakdown.
It’s pretty rare for me to learn something new about an actor I know and love, but I literally just found out that Robert Patrick’s little brother, Richard Patrick, is the lead singer of Filter. Yeah, the Hey Man, Nice Shot guy.
“I don’t make the rules, they’ve always been there…” - I don’t think I’ll ever get over Gandolfini’s death…
same
A recurring trope i always loved and that you see with davey (and artie bucco) is how these people were often cooler or tougher than tony as teenagers
Davey owned quite a large sporting goods store. It's surprising to me that he needed to borrow money in order to gamble. But maybe he owed money to other people.
interest on Richie and Tonys loan crushed him.
Maybe he was just a degenerate gambler.
He mentions during the game that Nike and NBA having their own stores is cutting into the profits but he has “big ideas” for next year. To me that seems to imply they aren’t sitting on a lot of disposable income for Davey to piss away
He owed money to Richie eight grand I think he says.Eight grand shouldn't have been that bad to pay back if he owned a sporting good store that did pretty good buisness.
@roberthagmaier9603 He could've sold off an asset way earlier, like a car, to pay the $8k off and he would've made life a little easier on himself. But he decided to chase the money by gambling more. Exactly what addicts do.
It’s brilliant how David and Vic’s story intersect. You can see the fear in Vic’s face.