Michael & Roth's casinos

If Michael had died?

Sure thing Turnbull “Michael's greed for Roth's Havana empire clouded his judgement and blinded him to Roth's treachery” leading to under / over estimating and later Roth's greed for Michael's $2 million resulted same for Roth

According to Roth's plan, Michael would be dead the night of Tahoe party

So why would the ever astute, meticulous Roth as clever as he is, take such an uncharacteristic risk, showing his hand interesting himself in an obscure beef - between Miami, New York, Nevada and Havana - seems to me far too high a risk for Roth to take especially so early on when by all accounts Michael would be dead the night of Tahoe party

It is never “good for business” taking sides against our own people though greedy Michael did just that totally disregarding his own advice to Fredo “don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family Ever”

However Michael could have twigged onto Roth, as to what Roth was up to and Roth's plans could have come crashing down, Roth even ending up dead
Just seems an unnecessary risk especially for someone like Roth who was always flying under the radar

Makes no sense because I believe if Michael had died in the Tahoe shooting, neither Tom, Neri nor Rocco would have had any idea and totally in the dark, it was Roth who was behind the shooting Nobody, figures out it was Roth all along

Whist I appreciate Roth's clever back up plans to deprive the Corleone successors of their “muscle-in-reserve” in New York surely Neri and Rocco could have mustered up a regime to fight “a war or an attempt by others to take over their Nevada interests”

Roth “Allying himself with the Rosatos in NYC, and getting Michael to take their side against his own man Pentangeli” looks good on paper but could have very easily backfired indeed