Wow, good to know. I didn't know anything about Sic Bo prior to your post.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "maclarenv12" <ahduff@...> wrote:
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> this is one of the bets in sic bo.
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yes, there was one. Not much stuff in it. No match plays. Only buffet I saw was buy one get one at Sams Town
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Vegas <clawed4967@...> wrote:
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> Did the Las Vegas Review Journal have a coast supplement this past month and if so was there anything in it worthwhile?
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Nice, my next question had to do with the number of credits to play. On my exploratory session, I started with one credit, but later bumped to full (three) credits to end the experiment and get back to my more profitable green felt. Thanks for your candidness on this subject, Mickey. I hope one day I can pay you back, whether it's info, or a shot of VO and a beer.
Thanx to everyone who responded with such helpful information. I didn't realize there were so many places you could look to both sell – and buy – gift cards. I knew about eBay but I found many local places when I went to Craig's List-Vegas although I didn't check out their prices. And there are several Internet sites but some didn't have good reviews. The one I liked best was http://www.cardpool.com/sell-gift-cards. No fees and it looks like it is connected with amazon.com and seems to be the most reliable one. In fact, they are offering to buy my Tiffany cards at 75% of their face value – even more if I took it in amazon.com money rather than cash.
I knew $400 was lowballing it – that was just the minimum I would be happy with. So $543.75 sounds really good from cardpool. I would have liked to sell it to a person I know, personally or from this list – and I will still do so if someone wants the cards for that price. But please e-mail me privately if you are interested.
In the meantime, I hope this discussion has been helpful to others who may have cards they'd like to turn into cash – or ideas on how to buy cards at a discount.
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Jean $¢ott, Frugal Gambler
http://queenofcomps.com/
You can read my blog at
http://jscott.lvablog.com/
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Did the Las Vegas Review Journal have a coast supplement this past month and if so was there anything in it worthwhile?
I'm not 100% certain, but it appears the LVH Tuesday point multiplier promo has ended. I did not see signs in the casino nor did I notice any stickered machines. The promo was pretty worthless anyway because no machines with decent paytables were included.
*the obvious answer is ebay, but maybe others know of a better marketplace.
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> Casinos sometimes give us gift cards we don't want for ourselves.
> Fortunately we usually have kids or grandkids who are happy to have them.
> However, I have $725 in Tiffany cards that I would like to turn into cash,
> i.e., perhaps only $400 since that is such an overpriced brand. Has anyone
> found a reliable place for gift cards they don't want?
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> Jean $¢ott, Frugal Gambler
> http://queenofcomps.com/
> You can read my blog at
> http://jscott.lvablog.com/
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A quick check on Ebay shows that the Tiffany gift cards usually sell for more than you want from them.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Queen of Comps" <queenofcomps@...> wrote:
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> Casinos sometimes give us gift cards we don̢۪t want for ourselves. Fortunately we usually have kids or grandkids who are happy to have them. However, I have $725 in Tiffany cards that I would like to turn into cash, i.e., perhaps only $400 since that is such an overpriced brand. Has anyone found a reliable place for gift cards they don̢۪t want?
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> Jean $¢ott, Frugal Gambler
> http://queenofcomps.com/
> You can read my blog at
> http://jscott.lvablog.com/
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I have found PlasticJungle dot com to be reliable and prompt.
"Queen of Comps" wrote:
Has anyone found a reliable place for gift cards they don't want?
Casinos sometimes give us gift cards we don't want for ourselves. Fortunately we usually have kids or grandkids who are happy to have them. However, I have $725 in Tiffany cards that I would like to turn into cash, i.e., perhaps only $400 since that is such an overpriced brand. Has anyone found a reliable place for gift cards they don't want?
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Jean $¢ott, Frugal Gambler
http://queenofcomps.com/
You can read my blog at
http://jscott.lvablog.com/
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:40 PM, chancejk <jchance6@cox.net> wrote:
> I'm no longer receiving my daily email digests from VP Free, though
> those from VP Free Laughlin are coming through fine. Any ideas?
Yahoo Groups had some issues with messages for a few days, but it
looks like they are getting back to normal now.
You can always read forum messages on the vpFREE home page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/
On April 21st the Audi drawing at Silverton was a shocker.
The guy who won the car only had 5 FREE entries. He was just going to the Aloha Festival and got his 5 free entires they give anyone who asks, and got picked first for Car. Players I know were playing every day, getting the max. 50 per day, said NOT FAIR. Casinos are nuts to limit entries, and even worse give out free ones to non gamblers.
I tried really hard at the Palms, but no luck in that drawing all month. There are probably about 50-60 hard core players, who put on a lot of points for entries, and they take turns getting picked. 10 winners is not enough!
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Paul Coleman <pdcolemanjr@...> wrote:
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> Way back when on the famed (or doomed) treasure hunt drawing that Harrahs did, I literally only had 17 (which was 325 points worth.. whoopie) entries and was drawn for a chance to go on the treasure hunt.. luckily i didn't pick that sqaure, but won $1500... not bad for only putting in a 100 bucks.. Unfortunatly, I have given waaaaaaaaaay more than back over the past years.. The best story was a drawing in Pahrump for a whole outdoor grill island set.. they were collecting entries for a whole month, there had to be over 10,000 tickets in the drum... I popped in 20 minutes before the drawing, earned enough points for 2 tickets, and had my named pulled... I literally ticked off the entire establishment..
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> So yes, it is possible to win with hardly anything in the drum..virtual drum or not..
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> From: "misscraps@..." <misscraps@...>
> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:55 PM
> Subject: [vpFREE] drawings
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> Seems like we are just not too lucky at drawings so in the past we have
> pretty much ignored them unless we just happened to be at a casino with
> drawings.
>
> Recently tried really hard to win a ipad at the Gold Coast. Had 30,000
> entries and attended all 3 drawings for ipads/electronics, but no luck.
> (Thursday special drawing). Then went to Friday and Sat. "take or trade it"
> since I had so many entries, and actually won $1000 in one of the drawings
> (traded $700 and got $1000) (Fortunately while I was playing all that week
> I won a bunch of $ - yippie! But actually lost $4000 on the day I won the
> $1000 drawing...argh....)
>
> Happened to go to the Palms on that Friday and didn't realize they were
> having a drawing there. Met someone I knew who came in 2nd ($2000 and an
> AirMac prize) who had 12,000 entries - apparently was playing for maybe 24 hrs
> during the week at 100 play quarters to get so many entries. Wow. I had
> 400 entries, so stayed for that drawing and won an Ipod shuffle and $75.
>
> Since I still wanted iPad, I tried really hard this week to win one at the
> Palms, and finally did on Friday night at the Palms. yippie. I racked up
> over 4000 entries playing 50 play quarter DDB, which I don't normally play
> (5 play is more my speed). I managed to break even on play during the
> week, fortunately. The 1st place winner in the drawing had 69 entries! 2nd
> place had 200. Some of the other people who came in higher places than I
> did had 200 entries and 700 entries.
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> Tonight was Sat. drawing, so back I went, and squeaked in at 7th place
> (shuffle and $200). Meanwhile I ran into the same two women who had about 200
> entries, and they both came in with higher places than I did (first called,
> bigger prizes). Even my husband played a little at the Palms (325
> entries) but he wasn't called in either drawing.
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> Just goes to show you that maybe it doesn't matter if you had a lot of play
> or not...maybe having high number of entries makes it a bit more likely
> you will win something, but not necessarily a great prize with 10 names
> called.
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> Someone told me one person had won a car at the Palms with 12 entries.
> Another friend told me she was at a Southpoint drawing and a woman won $1000
> with 1 entry!
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> But at least I actually won the iPad after 2 weeks with a LOT of play.
> Probably a lot easier on the nerves and back and fingers to just buy one
> though! Now I need a rest.
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Miss Craps concluded: Just goes to show you that
maybe it doesn't matter if you had a lot of play
or not...maybe having high number of entries makes it a bit more likely you
will win something, but not necessarily a great prize with 10 names called.
What she says is true, but misleading.
The chances of being called first is correlated with how
many entries you have. But not perfectly correlated. If she has 4000 tickets at
the Palms for 100 drawings, she'll probably get called 70 times --- often
first. That's a lot of tickets for their drawings. Someone who has 100 tickets
for the same 100 drawings might be called once or twice.
The thing is that there might be 200 players each
drawing night with 100 tickets or less. One of them sometimes wins --- but 199
of them don't! That person who won tells everybody that it only takes a few
tickets. The other 199 tell of that one time in 2009 when they won as well,
forgetting to mention that they have showed up again and again and again since
then with no drawing luck.
Earning 4000 tickets for a Palms drawing takes $400,000
in coin-in --- if you're playing on a video poker machine that includes 1¢ or
5¢
games. Playing 9/6 DDB perfectly implies an expected loss of $4,008 --- a lot
more if you don't play perfectly. At the Palms this offset by $1,000 in free
play (or $2,000 if you used a 2x point coupon which was available once during a
3-week period if you got the coupon book in the mail). This will qualify you
for a pretty good mailer for a month or two. To my mind the fact that she broke
even (presumably meaning she came out $1000 or $2000 ahead including free play)
is largely irrelevant. I believe you should judge your decisions based on EV.
NOT on actual results.
If you were guaranteed to win the IMAC and the $3,000 in
cash that would go with it, it might be a good investment (if you can afford
the swings of $400,000 of DDB. This is likely not a concern for Miss Craps, but
for many players it would be.) But as Miss Craps concluded, you are NOT
guaranteed to win first prize --- or any prize at all.
Sometimes I have played this much during a similar
promotion, although I play 8/5 Bonus which gives the casino $700 less of EV
compared to 9/6 DDB. (The best game EV-wise that counts for promos at the Palms
is 25¢
Ten Play 9/6 JoB. You can get about $7000 coin-in per hour on these machines.
It takes 50+ hours in less than a week to earn 4000 tickets. Yes it's possible if you have nothing else to do that week,
but . . . ) It is inconceivable to me that I would voluntarily give up an extra
$700 in EV to play for a drawing. I am grateful for Miss Craps and others who
are willing to do this.
Bob
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Also, in the link, second row right, you will find a picture of the Fox Hound. This was an advantage play too. And the play carried no cost to spin it off. It was 100% profit.
Notice, on the panel below the reels, that the credit and play buttons are lit. This means there are credits on the machine. Notice that the big button in the center of the panel is not lit. When you trigger the bonus round (about every 60 spins or so)that big button in the center will light up. You have to hit that button in order to get into the bonus round.
Sometimes, when I would be making laps around the Vision machines looking for advantage plays, I would see that big button on a Fox Hound was lit up. None of the other buttons would be lit. What does that mean?
It means that a tourist bet his/her last credits and triggered the bonus round, but didn't notice it and walked off. So all I had to do was hit the button and it was free money.
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> http://www.lbslot.com/slot-machines/used-slot-machines.php?cat=1&catname=use-slot-machine&subcat=29&subcatname=IGT+S2000+Vision
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