[vpFREE] Re: Scot Krause's Bonus Points Suncoast vp only 7x on 12/31

 



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> Scot Krause's LVA Players Club Bonus Points Update - 30 DEC 2010
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> See Gold Coast/Silverton
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Suncoast was supposed to have 10x points on all machines on 12/31. I was just there and the signs now posted show 10x on reels and only 7x on vp. Confirmed with the players club that it will only be 7x on vp.

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 



Guys-it is all very amusing- but very hard to believe.
A little proof, not anecdotes would be more convincing.

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[vpFREE] Scot Krause's LVA Players Club Bonus Points Update - 30 DEC 2010

 

Scot Krause's LVA Players Club Bonus Points Update - 30 DEC 2010

See Gold Coast/Silverton

http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/greatdeals-slotpromotions.cfm

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 

The real funny stuff about commandeering or getting people off their machines belongs to the real down and out crack head type advantage slot hustlers. Sklansky called them bottom feeders. We're talking advantage slots like Wild Cherry Pie, Fishin' For Cash, Double Diamond Mine, Triple Diamond Mine, Diamond Thief, Money Factory, Times Pay, Slot Bingo, Mystery Bonus. All part of the IGT Vision Series.

Take a tourist playing a Wild Cherry Pie and gets it down to just a few cherries to go before the machine coughs up the bonus. One hustler would sit down on one side of the tourist. Another hustler on the other side. They both put bills in their machines but they hardly play. They both got lit cigarettes in their mouths and puffing smoke to beat hell, blowing it all over the tourist. And talking loudly to each other right through the tourist until the tourist gets pissed and leaves....also leaving them a big fat play.

I'll have to tell you about Nick the Sick sometime.

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 



Well it certainly wasn't me. Our team operated on gang rules, you never involve the man.

The worst/best thing I ever did was to hire a really pretty topless dancer, I had hoped to date, to sweet talk an independent pro off a machine. It worked, but she ended up dating him instead of me.

So I traded a girl for a machine.

I paid her $500 for the service, and I believe the play rendered about $8,000 in profit.

I still think the joke was on me.

FK

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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:
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> > I've been told that if Tuna got to a big play late, if all the good machines were locked up, and no one would cut him in on the play, he would walk into slot operations and rat the whole play out.
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> Hmmm, this sounds familiar. When reading the above it reminds me of a certain play in Laughlin and a particular video poker book author.
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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 



Thanks again for your praise, it always makes me a little uncomfortable. I'm may not be 1/10th as dedicated as you.

I'm sorry to say the reason for my insight is the same reason that sparked the intellectual and philosophical revolution in ancient Greece 2400 years ago...Free time and an easy life. I had dual loving genius parents, that nurtured me and never questioned the paths I took in life.

I have little doubt that had I been faced with the adversity you describe, we wouldn't be having this discourse now. I can dance like a butterfly and sting like a bee, but I can't take a punch for crap.

I'm a progressive specialist. You are almost certainly the better overall professional gambler.

And for comedy's sake, let's leave it up to the peanut gallery to decide whether or not that is a "good" thing?

Happy new year all. Watch out for Snapper & Tapper, alert on the prowl.

~FK

~P.S. I was "Snapper".

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> Frank, You are very refreshitng in gambling. I'm glad that you show'd up. I think that you are after showing people the real motivations, the real conditions, the real process, the real psycology of professional gamblers. I think that is a good thing. I think the people of the world deserve to know the thought process of idiots like us.
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> I'm a Christian boy from Scott County, Mississippi. How did I get roped into this life of sin? That's a long story that I don't want to tell tonight.
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> You're pretty good at breaking down the psychology of it, Frank.... too damn good. I'm a highschool dropout. I never even took algebra. When I decided I wanted to be on a par with you big shot gamblin' asses. I took it to heart. Fairlure was not an option.
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> I got myself on an even par with you kind best of the gamblin' folks, knowledge wise, that is. But the truth is Frank, I'm not on an even par with you. I can do the math as good as you. But I can't do the psycholy as good as you. I have no rhyme, reason, or hell why I succeeded in gambling, other than my sheer ability.
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> But you better understand this. Whether I jump off a freight train in Ogden, Nevada or Cheyenne, Wyoming. Whether I check into a soup line. Whether I check into a mission. Whether I got kicked to the curb my my childhood sweetheart. Whether I got my ass kicked on a play. Whether I walk thru a parking lot of a shopping center with my backpack on and hear the clicking sound of all the people sitting in their cars hitting their door locks, I know who the hell I am.
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> I made myself out to be a gambler in a big time gambling world. But I was also pushing 40 before I got into it.
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> What's my motivation for the whole damn thing? I'm a clean and pure survivor. The way I lived my life, I pushed myself into a deep dark corner. The only way out was gamblin'. That's the truth, brother.
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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 



Alright with your input I now have an extra verse for the poem:

Had Tuna been there, He'd have cried unfair
If I can't have a seat, then no one gets meat,
for my ego's sake, I say, "let them eat cake."

The psychological issue you now attribute to Tuna is covered in my book in the subheading, "King of the Hill". I wasn't talking about Tuna in that particular subheading, but it fits better than OJ's glove.

I think the reason pro gambling can exacerbate pre existing conditions is because of its unstructured nature.

1. You work as much as you want
2. You work whenever you want
3. Your income has a 1 to 1 correlation to the hours you put in
4. No bell sounds at shifts end, and no one tells you to go home
5. The only measure of your success is against others of your ilk
6. And the only measuring stick for self worth available, is money

I don't think pro gambling causes mental problems, but it sure as hell doesn't fix them. It's like giving bullets to a suicidal person with a currently empty gun. Hand bullets to anyone without a gun, and they are relatively harmless...unless you use them as fuses in your truck.

Only people with the ability to structure their own lives, find any sort of equilibrium to retain balance in their lives.

~Gambling can add to a person that already has a full life, but it can't fill a life that's empty.

~FK

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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:
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> > He was definitely a bully.
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> What I should have written here is Tuna was definitely a bully when it came to gambling plays. I don't know enough about it but his bullyism could have been a manifestation of one who is addicted to gambling.
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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 

Tuna could be very convincing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Lund

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> How could he "commandeer" machines from people already sitting there? Anybody who tried to force me off a machine would just make me more determined to park my ass there.
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:
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> > One lady related a story to me about a big promotion at the Reno Hilton many years ago. There was two drawings a day for $5,000 each. The tickets were earned by hitting four of a kinds. She and her little crew had two quarter machines locked up. Tuna had a dollar bank of 8/5 Bonus Poker progressives locked up. There was 14 machines in the bank. There were meters on the Royal and the Quads. The royal meter was .75%, and the quad meters were .25%. Tuna had his team on the bank. Some member of his team hit practically every drawing. Yet, the lady told me that Tuna tried to commandeer here two machines.
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[vpFREE] Re: Hotel

 

If you have comps, they should be available.
I booked comped room at Harrah's for March quite a while ago.

Take Care,
Mark

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> > Hi, Does anyone know when next years room comps are showing up? I was always comped at Palazzo and any Harrah's but I keep looking on line and not seeing any. I have even called and none. Does anyone know what is going on? I would like to go to Vegas in Feb. However if I have to pay for the room no way.

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:

> I've been told that if Tuna got to a big play late, if all the good machines were locked up, and no one would cut him in on the play, he would walk into slot operations and rat the whole play out.

Hmmm, this sounds familiar. When reading the above it reminds me of a certain play in Laughlin and a particular video poker book author.

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 

How could he "commandeer" machines from people already sitting there? Anybody who tried to force me off a machine would just make me more determined to park my ass there.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:

> One lady related a story to me about a big promotion at the Reno Hilton many years ago. There was two drawings a day for $5,000 each. The tickets were earned by hitting four of a kinds. She and her little crew had two quarter machines locked up. Tuna had a dollar bank of 8/5 Bonus Poker progressives locked up. There was 14 machines in the bank. There were meters on the Royal and the Quads. The royal meter was .75%, and the quad meters were .25%. Tuna had his team on the bank. Some member of his team hit practically every drawing. Yet, the lady told me that Tuna tried to commandeer here two machines.

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[vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years

 

Frank, You are very refreshitng in gambling. I'm glad that you show'd up. I think that you are after showing people the real motivations, the real conditions, the real process, the real psycology of professional gamblers. I think that is a good thing. I think the people of the world deserve to know the thought process of idiots like us.

I'm a Christian boy from Scott County, Mississippi. How did I get roped into this life of sin? That's a long story that I don't want to tell tonight.

You're pretty good at breaking down the psychology of it, Frank.... too damn good. I'm a highschool dropout. I never even took algebra. When I decided I wanted to be on a par with you big shot gamblin' asses. I took it to heart. Fairlure was not an option.

I got myself on an even par with you kind best of the gamblin' folks, knowledge wise, that is. But the truth is Frank, I'm not on an even par with you. I can do the math as good as you. But I can't do the psycholy as good as you. I have no rhyme, reason, or hell why I succeeded in gambling, other than my sheer ability.

But you better understand this. Whether I jump off a freight train in Ogden, Nevada or Cheyenne, Wyoming. Whether I check into a soup line. Whether I check into a mission. Whether I got kicked to the curb my my childhood sweetheart. Whether I got my ass kicked on a play. Whether I walk thru a parking lot of a shopping center with my backpack on and hear the clicking sound of all the people sitting in their cars hitting their door locks, I know who the hell I am.

I made myself out to be a gambler in a big time gambling world. But I was also pushing 40 before I got into it.

What's my motivation for the whole damn thing? I'm a clean and pure survivor. The way I lived my life, I pushed myself into a deep dark corner. The only way out was gamblin'. That's the truth, brother.

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[vpFREE] LVA Question of the Day - 30 DEC 2010

 

LVA Question of the Day - 30 DEC 2010

Q: Years ago, you ran a QoD about some strange things that
have gone on in Nevada. I can only remember that it was
about Area 51 and Lake Tahoe. I'd love to read it again.
Thank you in advance.

Read the answer here:

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