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Re: [vpFREE] Re: ultimate x poker
The best places to find leftover multipliers are at the casinos frequented by tourists - mainly on the strip. I especially like checking the machines at Harrah's properties (Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Imperial Palace, and Harrah's) since most of their machines are 25c minimum. Another good area is MGM Grand, Planet Hollywood, Bellagio, Paris, and Bally's. I never can find any multipliers at Luxor, Excalibur, or Monte Carlo even though they have several machines each.
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From: tomflush <tomflush@nyc.rr.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: ultimate x poker
which casino are you talking about ?
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From: "annie adlin" <annieadlin@yahoo.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:52 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: ultimate x poker
>I look for leftovers all the time when in Vegas and usually come across
>some.
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[vpFREE] Gambling with an Edge --- February 23
This Thursday's Gambling with an Edge will feature Michael
Bluejay. Bluejay is a thrifty guy (Michael Shackleford said on the air last
week that Bluejay makes Jean Scott seem to be an out-of-control spendthrift).
Like Scott, Bluejay publishes all sorts of tips on how to gamble and do other
things in Las Vegas cheaply.
Michael
Shackleford and I will also be discussing the Palms Heads Up Slot Tournament
--- with Re-buys that happened this past weekend. To follow that discussion,
you probably want to look at my recent column http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2012/0221.cfm
beforehand.
GWAE may
be heard live in Las Vegas on Thursday evenings from 7-8, or on www.klav1230am.com from anywhere. The
shows are archived the next day on both bobdancer.com and wizardofodds.com
Bob
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Re: [vpFREE] Big Hit!
Hahahaha....anyone with that email address deserves to win big! Hopefully it does not stand for Maryland, Montana, Mississippi or Missouri!
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From: uofmsucks1@aol.com
To: vpfree@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:45 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Big Hit!
I enjoy reading people's big hit stories. Now I have one to share! I was
playing at Bellagio, Saturday morning. I play for pure entertainment,
trying to become a good VP player, but realizing my limitations. I primarily
play 3 lines quarter video poker (Super Times, Ultimate X, etc...).
It was around 4:15 AM and I was getting ready to go to the room for the
night. I had a $200 ticket, that I said, I was going to play down to $100,
and off to sleep. Something drew me to a 50 line play Double Bonus game
(8/5). I played dimes, not really thinking out that I was playing $25 per
push (way over my comfort level)! With about $115 in credits left, I got
dealt the Royal! I looked down, and saw that I had 200,000 credits. I
thought to myself, hey good job, $2000! Obviously, my math skills were dulled by
the lateness of the hour, because holy moly! It was actually $20,000!
It was big fun, and I wish the same success for the rest of you!
Steve
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RE: [vpFREE] Bob Dancers Article
I was quoted: I see no philosophical difference between a casino giving away "$35,000 plus all re-buy entry money goes to the players" and "$40,000 but the casino keeps all the re-buy money." It's just a different way of saying the same thing. It amounts to the same amount of money either way. But phrasing it the first way likely seems fairer to most players. If players like the first phrasing better, it makes sense for casinos to market it that way.
Larry F remarked: Of course the casino would never phrase it the second way. On certain machine banks does the casino say .." payout 99%" or " Casino hold 1 %"?
Except that's exactly what the Palms did this weekend. They had a fixed prize pool and they kept all the re-buy money. Several players were grumbling about it. Now it's been pointed out to them, I suspect the Palms will see the logic of rephrasing. Some things appear obvious once stated, but not-so-obvious beforehand. This is one of those things. We'll know for sure the next time they run one of these promotions. Bob
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[vpFREE] Big Hit!
I enjoy reading people's big hit stories. Now I have one to share! I was
playing at Bellagio, Saturday morning. I play for pure entertainment,
trying to become a good VP player, but realizing my limitations. I primarily
play 3 lines quarter video poker (Super Times, Ultimate X, etc...).
It was around 4:15 AM and I was getting ready to go to the room for the
night. I had a $200 ticket, that I said, I was going to play down to $100,
and off to sleep. Something drew me to a 50 line play Double Bonus game
(8/5). I played dimes, not really thinking out that I was playing $25 per
push (way over my comfort level)! With about $115 in credits left, I got
dealt the Royal! I looked down, and saw that I had 200,000 credits. I
thought to myself, hey good job, $2000! Obviously, my math skills were dulled by
the lateness of the hour, because holy moly! It was actually $20,000!
It was big fun, and I wish the same success for the rest of you!
Steve
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[vpFREE] Re: Redrock car drawing anomaly
Yes, I saw the same thing at Sam's Town earlier this month. A husband and wife draw, consecutive, two of five contestants for a shot at $50,000. I didn't hang around to see how they did.
Rick
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tangboy5000" <tangboy5000@...> wrote:
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> You go to enough of these drawings and you'll see stuff like that. Weird yes, impossible no. Hollywood casino in lawrenceburg has drawings once a month for winners. You drop your card in and they draw 4 times from the drum. There are usually, by my best guess, at least 5000 of these tickets in the drum. They draw 5 tickets for $500 3 times, then 10 one time and one for $10k. Last month during one of the drawings where they pick 5 for $500, a lady's ticket was drawn twice. She had at most 3 tickets in there. So it does happen. Husbands and wives get drawn all the time, to the point it's not even weird anymore.
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[vpFREE] Re: Hollywood @ Kansas Speedway
Between promotions (free rooms for tournaments, etc.) and comps we paid for one week. Oh yes, we were in the RV park in our motorhome but the offers were for hotel rooms as well. For 8 days (two 4-day periods) we enjoyed food via gold card. The rest of the time food was by slot points -- purchased zero meals. We did have some left over Total Rewards points so had a few meals at CE properties.
We play mostly dollar single line VP but I hit the 3-play quarter progressives once in a while (hit one royal there for $1500). Lucky Lucy hit a 50 cent progressive for $2600. That was about it. Our bankroll took a pretty good hit this time. LL was in a loosing streak from hell.
We were there last winter for 6 weeks, same song. When we left in March we had Emerald status with green cards. Ten months later were back and had to start all over with red cards. Seems to me the tier status should last at least a year. We did hit Emerald status again, but just before we left.
What did we do for a month? Why play video poker of course. ;-)
We did catch the Sam's Town shuttle bus to the strip several times and likewise to downtown. Always things to do and see in Las Vegas.
Rick
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "lfcmja@..." <lfcmja@...> wrote:
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "baronthegreat" <luckylucy39@> wrote:
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> > We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas
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> A month at Sam's Town ? That tickles my curiosity. Was it all comped ? If so based upon what kind of play ? Sincer LV is out of pool season ..what did you guys do with 30 days there ? Again I find this so interesting ( What can I tell you, I'm weird at times):)
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> Larry F.
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[vpFREE] Re: Redrock car drawing anomaly
You go to enough of these drawings and you'll see stuff like that. Weird yes, impossible no. Hollywood casino in lawrenceburg has drawings once a month for winners. You drop your card in and they draw 4 times from the drum. There are usually, by my best guess, at least 5000 of these tickets in the drum. They draw 5 tickets for $500 3 times, then 10 one time and one for $10k. Last month during one of the drawings where they pick 5 for $500, a lady's ticket was drawn twice. She had at most 3 tickets in there. So it does happen. Husbands and wives get drawn all the time, to the point it's not even weird anymore.
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[vpFREE] Re: Hollywood @ Kansas Speedway
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "baronthegreat" <luckylucy39@...> wrote:
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> We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas
A month at Sam's Town ? That tickles my curiosity. Was it all comped ? If so based upon what kind of play ? Sincer LV is out of pool season ..what did you guys do with 30 days there ? Again I find this so interesting ( What can I tell you, I'm weird at times):)
Larry F.
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[vpFREE] Redrock car drawing anomaly
For the car-a-day drawing at Redrock on Monday night 2-20-2012, I observed what would at least be characterized as an amazing statistical anomaly.
1st place (car) 3535996
2nd place thru 5th place each received $500
The winner player card numbers for 3rd and 4th place were 5770300 and 5770301, that is the numbers called were literally consecutive card numbers!
I feel I do not have anywhere near the necessary information to even approximate how unlikely this would be, but it does make me question possible explanations.
The two consecutive numbers are most likely husband and wife, or at least two acquaintances. But for both numbers to be drawn in the same drawing, even consecutively? A first thought is that both players had to be huge players, a level hundreds of times higher than even a normal chairman level player. But since entries earned in this contest are valid for all days of the promotion, on might think in such a case their numbers would have shown up already in the several prior days. It just so happens that my own card number begins with 577.. so that is what I first look for on days I check the drawing results. Today was actually the first day I encountered any winning number beginning with this same 577.
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[vpFREE] Hollywood @ Kansas Speedway
We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas so thought we would check out the new casino at the Kansas Speedway. A mailer waiting for us from Argosy, Kansas City, left no doubt who was running the Hollywood. Enclosed were two Hollywood slot cards which will be good in both casinos, accrued points available in either.
General impression: The facility is very nice, well decorated, high ceilings, good air quality, and much larger than I was expecting. However, unlike its sister property in Tunica, we saw almost no movie memorabilia. The "Hollywood" theme was mostly through large photographs and video screens. No original movie posters.
Buffet: First place we headed since we are casino buffet addicts. Again well decorated, nice facility with a combination of tables and booths. Some tables overlooks the race track (bet those are hard to get on NASCAR weekends). We were somewhat disappointed in two areas. First, in spite of the mailer we got, we could NOT use Argosy points to pay for food. That feature, the cashier explained, was not yet available and wouldn't be so for another month or two. Since this was our first visit we had to cough up $15 each for the meal. Second, the food wasn't that great. There were some dishes that were good and some were just plain lousy. This ain't the Carnival Buffet at Rio still we did manage to find enough edible food to leave with full tummies. There are other eateries but we have no information on them.
Video Poker: At first we couldn't find any and was wondering if they existed. But after asking an employee we found them all clustered in one area. Nothing in the High Limit area. Most machines were multi-denomination, multi-play and included keno as well as VP. Denominations ran from 5 cents to 2 dollars, higher pay tables at the one and two dollar levels. And now the bad news, we found no full pay machines. The best that I saw were 1 and 2 dollar 9/7 Double Bonus. Below the dollar level it was 9/6. Next best I guess would be the 9/5 JoB, again only at the 1 and 2 dollar level. Our preferred game, Bonus, was the lousy 8/5 with no bonus quads. We saw no progressive machines but our limited visit was not an exhaustive search.
Guess we will have to bone up on Double Bonus if we continue to play there.
Rick & Lucky Lucy
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Re: W2Gs - was [vpFREE] DIAD (long and probably too much info for most)
Not true. Up to 85% of your social security can be taxed.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:59 AM, David Silvus <djsilvus@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In other words, the half of your premiums that wasn't taxed (the
> employer's contribution) can be taxed upon receipt of your social security income.
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[vpFREE] Bob Dancers Article
I see no philosophical difference between a casino giving away "$35,000 plus all re-buy entry money goes to the players" and "$40,000 but the casino keeps all the re-buy money." It's just a different way of saying the same thing. It amounts to the same amount of money either way. But phrasing it the first way likely seems fairer to most players. If players like the first phrasing better, it makes sense for casinos to market it that way.
Of course the casino would never phrase it the second way. On certain machine banks does the casino say .." payout 99%" or " Casino hold 1 %"?
Larry F.
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[vpFREE] Bob Dancer's LV Advisor Column - 21 FEB 2012
Bob Dancer's LV Advisor Column - 21 FEB 2012
"A Different Sort of Tournament"
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2012/0221.cfm
<a href="http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2012/0221.cfm">
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2012/0221.cfm</a>
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