On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:50 AM, vegasvpplayer <vegasvpplayer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think casino management would appreciate Bob telling customers they should stop playing in their casino because they can't win. Assuming management knows Bob's identity, I'm sure they would love any excuse to stop him from playing at their casino.
i wouldn't be sure of that at all. on the contrary, he gets away with
stuff that none of the rest of us could manage. an example:
bob dancer was one of the players who got rounded up and rudely 86'd
during the double royals fiasco at jerry's nugget. (i escaped the
purge, since i avoided the horde of blatant APs and played a bank a
couple tenths worse.) they didn't realize who they were dealing with
at the time, but found out soon afterwards.
i overheard a couple of suits talking about it the next week. they
were flipping out about the potential bad publicity that would come
from having 86'd dancer, of getting bad press in his LVRJ column, of
having someone who is listened to by many other VP players speak
poorly of them, and were talking about ways to backpedal.
i don't know how they ended up resolving it, but it was clear that
having treated a couple dozen other APs like crap didn't bother them
at all, but they were worried about the fallout from mistreating
dancer.
(yes, i was surprised that the suits were having this discussion on
the casino floor, directly behind a player. but we've already
established that jerry's nugget does not have the sharpest knives in
the drawer.)
any casino that didn't want dancer playing there could just revoke his
player's card and bar him from promotions. they don't have to give a
reason, god knows they don't to most players they decide they don't
like. instead, they go out of their way to keep him happy. the jerry's
nugget thing is just one example, but i won't mention my other example
since it would identify me.
it's an interesting angle on his part. i wonder if it was his intent
from the start, or if it was just a pleasant side effect of his
classes and column and other publicity-seeking endeavors.
cheers,
five
