Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] Re: Smoking Bans

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mickeycrimm" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, b.glazer@ wrote:
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> > Interestingly, it sounds like you don't LIKE to drink and play at
> the same time -- for me, it's a playing decision -- I know that
> alcohol impairs people, and have no reason to assume I'm a special
> exception, and I don't want to make mistakes while playing,
> especially when I might not even realize I'm making them - so I
don't
> drink alcohol while playing - anything - unless the game is a no-
> brainer. When I was younger, a friend and I used to go into the
> bacarrat pit, when the limits were much lower, and make off-setting
> bets of the minimum amount, me on the bank and him on the player --
> thus assuring we'd pay about 0.5% (or whatever the commission was
on
> wins) of our action --- and then we'd drink as much as we could get
> them to bring us. Drinks cost us tips and the 0.5%, and half the
fun
> was that this was not very well received in the stuffy baccarat pit.
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> >
> >
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>
> I'm in action so much that I don't consider it playing. I consider
> it to be working. If I'm drinking while working then I'm drinking
on
> the job. Most people don't drink on the job. I guess I'm from
that
> mold.
>
> As far as hustling drinks goes, it's any easy thing to do in
> casinos. Take downtown LV. Just go to a bar in one of the
casinos,
> get the bartender's attention, pull out a roll of bills, peel off a
> benjamin and stick it in the machine--in full view of the bartender-
-
> while orderiing your drink. Then set the machine on the lowest
denom
> and bet one coin at a time.
>
> Vegas bartenders are trained to size you up. If you put your money
> in the machine before the bartender gets to you, you will notice
that
> when he/she does come over they will be looking down at the machine
> while taking your order to see if you are playing, what denom you
are
> playing, and how many credits you have. This is to determine if
you
> are a sucker or a hustler.
>
> They get all kinds of hustlers trying to take them off so it's a
> precaution they use. This is why you should prefer the technique
of
> letting them see your bankroll and the big bill you put in the
> machine. You are now a sucker in their eyes and they don't think
> twice before fetching you the drink.
>
> After the bartender delivers the drink and gets busy elswhere hit
the
> cashout button and make your exit. When you finish your drink just
> stop off at the next bar and pull the same trick. You'll be
drunker
> than a pig in no time at a cost of a couple of bucks.
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > My 55 y.o. brother-in-law is the same way - a life of smoking,
> eating, drinking, and riding motorcycles as much as he wants,
without
> any consequences. Don't worry about how to get to the doctor,
> they'll take you the way they took him - in a helicopter and/or
> ambulance - when he finally had his heart attack last summer.
> >
> > --BG
> >
>
> My Great Uncle Alvin chain-smoked Prince Albert in a Can. Rolled
> them up himself. He was a very unceremonious drinker. He would
just
> open the jug and start chugging. He was a disgrace to my highly
> religious Grandmother, his little sister.
>
> One morning they found Uncle Alvin dead at his house. My
Grandfather
> went to investigate. When he got back he reported to my
Grandmother
> that there was a huge pile of whiskey bottles in the backyard.
>
> My Grandmother looked at me while shaking her head and said "The
poor
> man drank and smoked himself to death."
>
> He was only 89 years old. What a shame.

Well my Uncle died at age 53 from an unstoppable nose bleed while in
a drunken stupor. Why was it unstoppable? No liver left. He
drank 13 bottles of Drewrys a day minimum (baker's dozen at the local
party store) and basically remained sober. It was the week long
benders that would knock him silly, until he was nearly starving to
death from not eating. Then he would sober up and get something to
eat.

He smoked also, but that was the least of his problems. Always
figured he would burn himself up, but somehow he managed to put out
his cigarette before he would fall asleep.

Quite sad!
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