Dana White is used to seeing an old-fashioned butt-kicking. It just so happened that on this occasion, he was the one responsible for the butt-kicking.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that the Palms Hotel and Casino has banned White, UFC president, from gambling there for the second time.
White told the Review-Journal that he won $2 million from the casino over a three-month span after coming off a 22-month layoff.
The casino originally cut his credit in half in 2012, according to the Review-Journal. That annoyed White, who began boycotting the casino, pulling all UFC-related events from the Palms.
"I was not going to do any business with them," White confirmed to the Review-Journal.
He said that the Palms lured him back in March after he and his Ultimate Fighting Championship events took a 22-month hiatus.
The Palms reportedly reached out to White through now-former chief executive Dan Lee. Lee sent him a case of his favorite wine, 2001 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Montrachet, said to be sold for $5,000 a bottle, to the UFC office as a peace offering.
The casino apparently forgot about his gambling prowess. After his total winnings eclipsed $2 million, he said that the casino "asked me not to play anymore."
White said his biggest concern was that he might be thought of as a cheater.
"A lot of people are going to think I'm a card counter after that Ben Affleck thing at the Hard Rock. I'm the farthest thing from card counter," he said, according to the Review-Journal.
The latest ban, however, was on friendlier terms. The Palms acted out of humor when they banned him. White said he heard from that the casino had planned to give him a trophy that said, congrats you kicked our ass and made us tap out."
White was rumored to have tipped dealers as much as $200,000 during his three-month reinstatement. White would not comment on that report but said he already received an invitation to gamble at Mandalay Bay.
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