1- Belintar "broke the bank at casino town" 2- Belintar founded casino town 3- Belintar did not break the bank at casino town.
It is all a matter of definitions and meanings.
For example, say Belintar came to God Forgot, and while the ancient sorcerors mostly would not deal with him, there were those there who had mastered the abstract magic of probability, and used it to present magical challenges to all who would take them on (back then it would more likely have been a periodic event, rather than a permanent town). They'd understood that things average out over enough samples, so with just a small house advantage they'd always win.
Then Belintar, the master of luck (yet to show himself master of death), shows up. With magic much more fundamental than that of the wizards, he showed that even immortals can't always have an infinite number of trials....maybe the house would have won eventually, but he bled them dry before that, winning the contest.
Who knows what the prize was for winning the contest--certainly not something the others would have wanted to give up. But Belintar suggested another idea....take their idea and make it a permanent feature, build a town to support it, and adjust the rules to better protect the house. Instead of destroying them, he could make them, and even protect them. All for nominal allegiance that they'd hardly notice, and a small cut of the proceeds.
*shrug* I don't know how that version fits into canon, but if the story around this area hasn't been told, we're free to imagine it was something like that....adjusted to meet those details that have been established.
--Bryan
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