<p> In most casinos, once a player picks up their stack and leaves a desk, they must wait a sure period of time (usually an hour) before returning to a desk with the identical game and limits except they purchase in for the entire amount they left with. In 1956, a struggling young lawyer named Clifford Perlman and his brother Stuart, a door-to-door salesman, scraped together $12,000 to buy a hum