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Tribute To Butch Butch's Book Action Bowler's
| Since the age of fourteen, I've been a high school student, a bowling hustler, and a mail carrier for the Post Office. I was a manager in the margin department for Bache & Company and then Reynolds, I purchased and drove my own N.Y.C. Taxi Cab, owned a paper bag distribution company, a party supply warehouse, and I booked bands in Atlantic City, I now have two cable TV shows, Hole In The Wall and Ring Fever. A motion picture is also being made based on my life's story. The whole time since I graduated grammar school, there has been only one constant ... I've always been, and always will be "a professional gambler" |
First it was Joe Rivitte a producer with Fine Line Cinema wanting to do a major motion picture about butch the gambler's days as an action bowler in the 1860s Then Sal Stabile, a producer with Dreamworks who also wrote the motion picture Gravesend, which was produced by Oliva Stone, wanted to work with Joe Rivitte as the producer of butch's story. Next came a major article in the New York daily news about Ring Fever, a cable show and website founded by butch and his partner Robert Santa. This was followed up by a very nice article in the Bay News
butch's career as a gambler
· 1957 - bowled my first match for money, $50 - 3 game total - won - 13 yrs old
· 1957 - started playing various games of poker with my friends, loved it
· 1958 - pitched coins every day at school, enabled me to use cabs most of the time
· 1959 - became a bowling hustler - it supported me
· 1960 - started shooting street craps and going to the track - this was the life
· 1961 - was already learning how to cut my loses, and press a hot streak
· 1962 - joined the Air Force and used my gambling skills to stay in the money
. 1963 - was asked to leave the A.F. and resumed being a bowling hustler
· 1966 - made the mistake of getting married, quit gambling and stopped bowling
· 1970 - bought a cab so I could get back into the street life
· 1972 - started playing poker every night after work, made more than working the cab
· 1974 - would work the cab for only 3 or so hours and than go to a poker game
· 1976 - went back to being a bowling hustler, the money was once again flowing
· 1977 - quit bowling because the easy money stopped, went to the track everyday
· 1979 - started to run and cut a weekly poker game with my partner Paul
· 1980 - played in our own game as much as possible, won a lot of money
· 1981 - our game closed down, started going back to the track everyday
· 1982 - took up casino gambling, went to Atlantic City every week, 3 day stays
· 1983 - started booking bands in A.C., spent more time there gambling
· 1985 - resumed playing poker and going to the track
· 1990 - started teaching people how to be a winner when gambling
· 1995 - started to play a lot of poker in and around Atlantic City
· 1997 - started to gamble on the internet, blackjack and craps, earning a good living
2006 - Playing a lot of internet poker for the last few years, doing very well, life is great.
