--- 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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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.
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> 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.
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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.
