It was like that from his early days in Boiling Springs, where he hung around pool halls.

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Gillette's hobby is to visit pool halls solo in dangerous neighborhoods and, with no cash in his pocket, challenge desperados to big-dollar games.

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Over there would be the permanent village, with two five-hundred-man mess halls, a lap pool, a running track, a driving range.

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One of the 80 person staff will appear silently to take your bags and bring you through the shadowy labyrinth of narrow plaster halls into the main salon where there is sunlight, music and a view of the gardens and pool.

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