I've heard of our bigshot politicians accompanying Manny Pacquiao to Las Vegas during his boxing bouts. These big shots are also famous for their bigtime gambling habit. But I never suspected they are that big thus meriting a mention in a best-selling book. This passage from The Black Swan confirms:
All they had to do was control the "whales," the high rollers flown in at the casino's expense from Manila or Hong Kong; whales can swing several million dollars in a gambling bout.
