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Influence. a wealthy businessman who lost half a million dollars at a las vegas casino is suing to get his money back. he says he was blackout drunk when he hit the gambling table. he claims the casino served him do dozens to drink. >> drinking to this point is out of the ordinary for mr. johnson as the host at the hotel we believe should have known. >> in nevada it is illegal to allow visibly drunk customers to gamble. i wonder how that one is going to turn out. it is all the casino's fault. >> sounds similar to the eagles story where the owner lost a ton of money because he was drunk and gam...

It is. here is the thing, in atlantic city, now, the jersey governor just signed on to this thing. you do not have to be at a gambling table or anywhere to gamble the you can be at pool or at a restaurant or whatever as long as you are on casino property. you can now have mobile devices to gamble on anything that is legal to gamble on, wherever you are. then you have a credit card and if you lose, they take it off the credit card. if you win, you get your winnings when you check out of the facility after your stay. so, there are more ways to win/lose than ever before. that is exciting, fraser....

About deals in the future. that they will reveal to the seller, even though we sold this to you, we're betting against it. a judge is not involved, this is between the lawyers for the sec and the lawyers for goldman. it's done in private. we won't know about it until they tell us it's a deal. >> shepard: the digger issue is long term transparency. if you have these credit default swaps, that they be traded on an open market. now they're sort of side bets, as if you're betting with a buddy as a gambling table. >> here's the interesting thing. i'm firmly of the view that at the time goldman did ...

Jersey heating repairman. jack fell behind on his mortgage, so far behind that he lost the house to a foreclosure. on monday it was put up for auction at the county hall of records. >> thank you for inviting me to appear today. >> reporter: this is hedge fund manager john paulson, he bet that jack and thousands of other americans would not be able to pay their mortgages. paulson bet right and made $1 billion. this is goldman sachs, the nation's most prestigious investment firm. goldman sachs set up the bet for john paulson. jack's house was one of the cards and goldman sachs was supposed to be...

Appear to today. >> reporter: this is head fund manager paulson, he bet that jack and thousands of other americans would not be able to pay their mortgages. paulson bet right and made a billion dollars. this is goldman sachs the nation's most prestigious investment firm. goldman sachs set up the bet for john paulson. jack's house was one of the cards, and goldman sachs was supposed to be shuffling the deck. german bank ikb bet that jack and thousands of other homeowners could pay their mortgages. ikb bet wrong and lost $150 million. this is the u.s. securities and exchange commission. it said ...