[vpFREE] XVP Aria's Lawsuit

 

It may be old news, but I first heard about ex-NBA star Charles Oakley's lawsuit with the Aria on channel 5's news tonight.

Here's Mr. Oakley's side of the story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/charles-oakley-sues-las-vegas-resort-beat-down_n_862533.html

Here's the Aria's side of the story:

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jul/11/las-vegas-casino-guards-counter-sue-nbas-charles-o/

I'd lay 100 to 1 that if either side is substantially accurate, it's the Aria's. Maybe Mr. Nersesian can be asked to comment about it on Thursday's show.

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[vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tim Warr <timwarr@...> wrote:
> How are taxes handled on a $100 JOB machine, you hit a full house, do you need to have a 1099-G every time??  Even a 3 of a kind would be over the $1,200 limit.    
>
>
Yes, the same 1099-GA requirements apply no matter what denomination you are playing. That said, a few months ago I saw a reference in one of the Bellagio's quarterly promo offer mags that they were close to instituting some new patent- or gaming commission approval-pending technology/capability that would allow players to self-service their jackpots in the Hi Limit area. Don't recall that it gave a lot of (or maybe any) details but it certainly sounded like something I haven't seen before.

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RE: [vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

W-2Gs are meaningless to a professional gambler. They just report their net
win on Sch. C.

Aria has special software to accumulate all the reportable jackpots in a
session and generate a log, so you don't have to stop when you hit trips or
better.

Cogno

-----Original Message-----
From: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vpFREE@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Bob Bartop
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 9:01 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tim Warr <timwarr@...> wrote:
>
> How are taxes handled on a $100 JOB machine, you hit a full house, do you
need to have a 1099-G every time??  Even a 3 of a kind would be over the
$1,200 limit.    
>

Good question. I was also wondering how he's going to like his 0.65% EV
when April 15th comes around. I assume he's got it all covered since he's
been playing with the big boys for a long time.

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[vpFREE] Re: XVP: Trip Report Las Vegas July/August 2011

 

> Pat Okano <comicbooklovers1@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the report, Steve. Can anyone tell me where
> to get these coupon books with free play and match play?

The trip report mentioned using coupons from the "ACG and
LVA MRB".

The ACG is the American Casino Guide book that includes many coupons. Here's the 2011 list: http://www.americancasinoguide.com/2011-american-casino-guide-coupons.html

The LVA MRB is the Las Vegas Advisor Member Rewards Book that comes with a LVA membership. Their 2011 coupons: http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/whyjoin-mrbdetails.cfm?CFID=31347796&CFTOKEN=27812289

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[vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tim Warr <timwarr@...> wrote:
>
> How are taxes handled on a $100 JOB machine, you hit a full house, do you need to have a 1099-G every time??  Even a 3 of a kind would be over the $1,200 limit.    
>

Good question. I was also wondering how he's going to like his 0.65% EV when April 15th comes around. I assume he's got it all covered since he's been playing with the big boys for a long time.

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Re: [vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

How are taxes handled on a $100 JOB machine, you hit a full house, do you need to have a 1099-G every time??  Even a 3 of a kind would be over the $1,200 limit.    

--- On Sun, 8/7/11, st.tropez97 <st.tropez97@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: st.tropez97 <st.tropez97@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, August 7, 2011, 4:13 PM

 

"gipper518" <gipper518@...> wrote:

>

> Perhaps it did hit at the Aria but when I was in

> LV a couple weeks ago, the $100 progressive at

> the Bellagio coincidentally was also at about $670k.

Maybe not a coincidence that the $100 progressives at Bellagio and Aria were the same. Someone told me they are linked.

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[vpFREE] XVP Extra Lucky person turns out to be a statistics PHD from Stanford

 
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[vpFREE] Re: Reel Rewards Flamingo???

 

Yea, doesn't bother me at all to go to a 99% machine when they send me $850 :-)

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vp_wiz" <harry.porter@...> wrote:
>
> Sharon wrote:
> > We will be in Vegas in October and just got an offer from the
> > Flamingo for $850 in Reel Rewards play. Does anyone know if this is
> > good for use on VP. I have called the casino twice but am not
> > confident that the people I talked to were sure of the answer. They
> > both told me it was good on VP. The offer states table games and
> > slots. I am not sure that includes VP. The people I talked to said
> > VP is a slot game and is included in the promotion. Anyone here
> > know for sure.
>
> It seems to be a more common practice in Harrah's/Caesars casinos to preclude some of the strong vp machines from accepting Reel Rewards coupons. It appears that this is in reaction to some players who regularly seek out these machines to play through coupons once and run with the money.
>
> If it should be necessary to play an inferior vp game in order to convert the coupons to playable credits (or simply cash out), bear in mind that even in taking a 1% paytable cut to do so on a $1000 offer it only costs you about $10 in EV when played through once. It's not the worst sacrifice.
>
> That said, in a recent trip to Tahoe where I desired to redeem a coupon on a machine in the HL area which was labeled with such an exclusion, they were willing to accommodate with conversion to a standard machine ticket. (Wouldn't advise such a request if your intent is to play through once and run.)
>

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[vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

heads-up on the photo link. I clicked on the photo of the poker joint and it had a virus. Computer started to do a "virus scan" but it wasn't my microsoft security essentials. Shut off my computer before it got to registry.
Yea, the sign on the joint was intriguing.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Jason Pawloski <jpawloski@...> wrote:
>
> I took another look at the photo today and found it curious the machine
> awarded fractional credits. I went back and looked at both of my progressive
> royal hits and it did appear to round up to the nearest credit, which is how
> I thought machines worked. I also always thought awarding fractional credits
> was a huge no-no.
>
> Am I being overly suspicious or does this seem weird to anyone else? The
> only thing I can think of is that there is some sort of exception because
> the denom is so large (specifically, carrying out a fraction to 3 decimal
> places still awards an actual dollar amount that can be paid, which isn't
> true at micro-denoms).
>
> Here's a picture in case you didn't see it
>
> http://lockerz.com/s/126049089
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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[vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 

I'm sure his fellow grinders who also played this lucrative play but did not see the RF, are today enjoying every one of those fifteen hundred bucks per hour earned directly from the Aria.

We've seen it right here a hundred times: the vast majority of AP's who go after these things are either seriously under-bankrolled, they have to pool together their funds just to sweat out the play, or they have to endure some tourist catching the big one after just 5 minutes at a machine.

Reality: It's not what you think.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "seedub49" <seedub49@...> wrote:
> If that is true, then possibly the reason you are incredulous of those who claim to make a living grinding out advantage video poker is your lack of understanding of the fundamental concepts necessary to accomplish that.
>
> I would think a large percentage of people who have never even played video poker would have an intuitive grasp that bet size would affect bankroll requirements (even if they have no familiarity of concepts such as variance and advantage).

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[vpFREE] Re: Huck Seed's $600K royal

 



--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rob.singer1111@yahoo.com" <rob.singer1111@...> wrote:
>
> I dind't know bankroll was important when you're making a minimum hourly wage of $1500/hour.

If that is true, then possibly the reason you are incredulous of those who claim to make a living grinding out advantage video poker is your lack of understanding of the fundamental concepts necessary to accomplish that.

I would think a large percentage of people who have never even played video poker would have an intuitive grasp that bet size would affect bankroll requirements (even if they have no familiarity of concepts such as variance and advantage).

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[vpFREE] Re: Reel Rewards Flamingo???

 

Sharon wrote:
> We will be in Vegas in October and just got an offer from the
> Flamingo for $850 in Reel Rewards play. Does anyone know if this is
> good for use on VP. I have called the casino twice but am not
> confident that the people I talked to were sure of the answer. They
> both told me it was good on VP. The offer states table games and
> slots. I am not sure that includes VP. The people I talked to said
> VP is a slot game and is included in the promotion. Anyone here
> know for sure.

It seems to be a more common practice in Harrah's/Caesars casinos to preclude some of the strong vp machines from accepting Reel Rewards coupons. It appears that this is in reaction to some players who regularly seek out these machines to play through coupons once and run with the money.

If it should be necessary to play an inferior vp game in order to convert the coupons to playable credits (or simply cash out), bear in mind that even in taking a 1% paytable cut to do so on a $1000 offer it only costs you about $10 in EV when played through once. It's not the worst sacrifice.

That said, in a recent trip to Tahoe where I desired to redeem a coupon on a machine in the HL area which was labeled with such an exclusion, they were willing to accommodate with conversion to a standard machine ticket. (Wouldn't advise such a request if your intent is to play through once and run.)

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[vpFREE] LVA Question of the Day - 8 AUG 2011

 

LVA Question of the Day - 8 AUG 2011

Q: I just saw your Today's News item about "octogenarian
comic" Marty Allen. He's really 89 years old?! Does that
make him the oldest performer in Las Vegas? If not, who is?

Read the answer here:

http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm

<a href="http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm">
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/qod.cfm</a>

NOTE: vpFREE access to the Question of the Day link has
been approved by LVA and expires after the current day
for non-LVA members.

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