How a former Catholic postulant, who became Chicago TV’s Romper Room teacher in 1967-and later acted in national commercials with Jodie Foster and the Pillsbury Doughboy-ended up in Greektown is a circuitous story.( Romper Room, of course, had originated in Baltimore in the 1950s.) Such games, often moving site to site, were more common before the Horseshoe Casino opened, Reilly notes. Police broke up the heist and recovered almost $24,000. A player who had stepped out moments before to call his girlfriend heard the commotion and flagged down a patrol car. Known in local poker lore as “The Hold’em, Hold up,” the 2006 stick-up gained real notoriety because of what happened next. “They broke in yelling, ‘MFer this, MFer that’ and pistol-whipped one guy because he couldn’t open the safe. “I thought, ‘This is it, I will just have to die right here,’” the 77-year-old one-time nun-in-training, former Romper Room teacher, ex-actress, ex-cabbie, and still-serious poker player recalls with a chuckle and blue-eyed twinkle.Īrmed robbers had busted into the illegal backroom poker game in Greektown where she had a seat at one of the tables-the only woman in the joint-and told everyone to stand, face the wall, and pull their pants down to their ankles. Mary Carol Reilly refused to drop her drawers in a room full of men.
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