LOL!
I guess if Harrah's short-pay VP doesn't drain you this will!
Mac
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
>
> Hopefully we can skip all the royal flush jokes on this one
>
> Bob
>
Windsor has Pickem 2-3-5-(can't remember if its 10 or 11)-15-18-100-200-2000 at $1. These are next to the pit not far from the high limit areas. Playing one coin with reduced royals is still better than anything offered at the 25 cent level. I believe the Diamond lounge requires half Seven Stars in order to gain enterance.
Brian
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <dlf89@...> wrote:
>
> Joliet has a nice diamond lounge. Example: tomorrow they have Italian beef
> sandwich, tues. they have pulled pork sandwich. they usually have a fruit
> cobbler and they do have soft serve ice cream and a beverage station so you
> can have either sundaes or floats. They also have lettuce salad and usually
> another choice of salad. I
> They have 8/5 double double in quarters. Pay tables aren't the greatest.
> They do have a $1 double double progressive that is 9/6. If you go on
> facebook to Harrahs Joliet, click on exclusive offers...buy one get one free
> for Paula Deen buffet Mon thru Thurs. Also a $20 prime rib dinner in steak
> house, good Tues, Wed. You might have to "like" the page.
>
> We happen to visit Metropolis yesterday (to early for the race). Was very
> disappointed. I thought Joliet had bad pay tables. Nothing worth playing.
> they do have a short pay progressive quarter bank on the 2nd floor. I think
> the better pay tables was actually at the bar on the 2nd flr. Yesterday
> (Sat) we went into the Diamond lounge and they don't serve any food till
> 5:30. And then it looked like it would just be horderves......But there is
> a giant Superman a few blocks from Harrahs. If you plan to eat there...
> over in the hotel there is a stand with tourist info. There was a little
> magazine Adventure along the Ohio River. It had a big pic of Superman on
> it. There is a buy one get one free for the buffet at Harrahs.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hank" <grayfx1949@...>
> To: <acvpp@yahoogroups.com>
> Cc: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:57 PM
> Subject: [vpFREE] Doing CZR Great Race
>
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> Wife and I have decided to do a 8-9 day road trip and secure our $750 per
> person in
> comps from the Great Race promotion. I am mid-level diamond, wife is gold.
> We
> secured comped rooms in all venues except Joliet and St. Louis.
>
> What I would like to ask the group for is any information they could provide
> for
> the following casinos we will be visiting:
>
> Cleveland....Windsor....Joliet....St. Louis....Metropolis....Elizabeth.
>
> We have already done AC and Philly, so by doing the above we will have our
> 15 points. We do not intend to play more than the required 25 tier points
> per person
> playing the best .25 cent VP available. So let's hear your views on the
> above casinos,
> restaurants, best vp, diamond lounges, nearby must sees and do's, etc.
>
> I thank you all in advance for your time and consideration.
>
> Hank (Grayfox) and Bonnie
>
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Joliet has a nice diamond lounge. Example: tomorrow they have Italian beef
sandwich, tues. they have pulled pork sandwich. they usually have a fruit
cobbler and they do have soft serve ice cream and a beverage station so you
can have either sundaes or floats. They also have lettuce salad and usually
another choice of salad. I
They have 8/5 double double in quarters. Pay tables aren't the greatest.
They do have a $1 double double progressive that is 9/6. If you go on
facebook to Harrahs Joliet, click on exclusive offers...buy one get one free
for Paula Deen buffet Mon thru Thurs. Also a $20 prime rib dinner in steak
house, good Tues, Wed. You might have to "like" the page.
We happen to visit Metropolis yesterday (to early for the race). Was very
disappointed. I thought Joliet had bad pay tables. Nothing worth playing.
they do have a short pay progressive quarter bank on the 2nd floor. I think
the better pay tables was actually at the bar on the 2nd flr. Yesterday
(Sat) we went into the Diamond lounge and they don't serve any food till
5:30. And then it looked like it would just be horderves......But there is
a giant Superman a few blocks from Harrahs. If you plan to eat there...
over in the hotel there is a stand with tourist info. There was a little
magazine Adventure along the Ohio River. It had a big pic of Superman on
it. There is a buy one get one free for the buffet at Harrahs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank" <grayfx1949@yahoo.com>
To: <acvpp@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 4:57 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Doing CZR Great Race
Hi Gang,
Wife and I have decided to do a 8-9 day road trip and secure our $750 per
person in
comps from the Great Race promotion. I am mid-level diamond, wife is gold.
We
secured comped rooms in all venues except Joliet and St. Louis.
What I would like to ask the group for is any information they could provide
for
the following casinos we will be visiting:
Cleveland....Windsor....Joliet....St. Louis....Metropolis....Elizabeth.
We have already done AC and Philly, so by doing the above we will have our
15 points. We do not intend to play more than the required 25 tier points
per person
playing the best .25 cent VP available. So let's hear your views on the
above casinos,
restaurants, best vp, diamond lounges, nearby must sees and do's, etc.
I thank you all in advance for your time and consideration.
Hank (Grayfox) and Bonnie
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Wouldn't this be a good time to have a gaming attorney and a casino exec from the Palms or Stations on the show?
>
> We've had 4 lawyers on the show and asked variations of this question to all of them
>
They all say the law is very unclear and until some cases are litigated, they just don't know
Bob
>
>
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A FELONY in Nevada? I've never heard of a policy of giving a warning when an employee witnesses a felony being committed--anywhere. The whole thing doesn't make sense. Either electronic help devices are allowed or they're not. Wouldn't this be a good time to have a gaming attorney and a casino exec from the Palms or Stations on the show?
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From: "Bob Dancer" <bobdancervp@hotmail.com>
Several properties in Colorado will stop your play, and give you one warning.
They cite that Colorado statutes mirror Nevada's.
It is a misdemeanor in Colorado , and a felony in Nevada (they quote).
<Snip>
I'm not surprised casinos give you warnings first. Were I to get such a warning, I would instantly heed it. (And would recommend others heed warnings as well.)
On July 13th there was a sign up in the Riviera saying the 13th was the last day for the 1000 dollar loss rebate. I still see the promotion listed in a few places so just wanted to let people know.
Hopefully we can skip all the royal flush jokes on this one
Bob
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On Jul 15, 2012, at 11:04 AM, "ezfromnwon" <ezfromnwon@aol.com> wrote:
> With summer upon us, the ever-thoughtful folks at Harrah's Las Vegas have opened up "IcePan" - a unique ice cream shop across from the Diamond Lounge. According to their brochure (entitled "What is IcePan?") this innovative product may cause you to:
>
> "have a little stomach trouble after eating IcePan ice cream. Because IcePan ice cream contains FOS (Fructooligosaccharide) that helps to accelerate Bowel Movements."
>
> And kids love it too!
>
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With summer upon us, the ever-thoughtful folks at Harrah's Las Vegas have opened up "IcePan" - a unique ice cream shop across from the Diamond Lounge. According to their brochure (entitled "What is IcePan?") this innovative product may cause you to:
"have a little stomach trouble after eating IcePan ice cream. Because IcePan ice cream contains FOS (Fructooligosaccharide) that helps to accelerate Bowel Movements."
And kids love it too!
Sent from my iPad
On Jul 15, 2012, at 4:24 AM, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "No. We have strict laws against that sort of thing."
> "Are you one of Romer's Christians."
> "Something like that."
>
Read a book, go to jail.
All part of God's plan.
TC
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5 years ago, we would gamble at the Aquarius in Laughlin. The free wi-fi signal from the Starbucks and the VIP check-in were strong.
I would sit next to my wife at the FPVP and go surfing on the internet on my rather large Toshiba Laptop.
Once needed to plug-in the laptop so left the VP and went to Starbucks for coffee. Got a call from my partner that she got the Royal holding two cards. Glad I wasn't there with my laptop when she did. Opening up a laptop is probably very unacceptable nowadays!
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
>
>
> I received the following email today from a knowledgeable friend. I am posting it with permission --- however my friend wishes to remain unnamed.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello Bob,
>
> FYI - Using electronic strategy Apps.
>
>
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>
Vegas Values Report - 15 JUL 2012
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LVA Question of the Day - 15 JUL 2012
Q: I heard the Stirling Club at Turnberry has closed. What
happened and what are the prospects for its return under
new ownership?
Read the answer here:
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Bob's friend wrote:
> Hello Bob,
>
> FYI - Using electronic strategy Apps.
>
> Several properties in Colorado will stop your play, and give you one warning. They cite that Colorado statutes mirror Nevada's.
> It is a misdemeanor in Colorado , and a felony in Nevada (they quote).
>
>
I played poker in Cripple Creek, Blackhawk and Central City in 93 and 94. And I returned to Blackhawk for a week in 97. While playing poker in Cripple Creek I got to meet the Colonel. I played poker with him. He was 82 years old. He owned one of those photo shops that catered to summer tourists. He's the one that started the movement to get gambling into the old ghost towns in the mountains. He told me he had read an article about Deadwood, South Dakota gambling and decided that's what Cripple Creek needed.
But Colorado had a very powerful three-term Governor named Roy Romer. He was a Democrat but a staunch Christian. He negated any attempts by the legislature to approve gambling. So the Colonel and others were successful in getting the issue on statewide ballot. The people of the state went over Romer's head and approved gambling in the mountain towns. There was nothing Romer could do at that point-EXCEPT-he had the right to appoint the Gambling Commission.
The Commission turned out to be just like Romer, staunch Christians. They were known for two things: their honesty....and their ignorance of gambling. They copycatted Nevada Gaming Regulations....and added some of their own.
If you were a floorperson in a poker room you were subject to being given a pop quiz by a Gaming Agent at any time. You had to know the poker regulations by heart. And they had a regulation for everything. The good side of that, for me, was any kind of misdealt hands or disputes were handled exactly the same in every poker room. It was the most consistent I've ever seen. But Gaming was a pain in the ass to poker room personnel, they were just as strict on employee's as underhanded customers.
And here is a dirty little secret. When I returned to Blackhawk/Central City in 97, I was armed with Dan Paymar's books, Precision Play and The Best of Video Poker Times, along with strategy cards for various games. I was looking for advantage video poker and advantage slots. The best I found was 10/7 with .5% cashback. No advantage slots.
That wasn't enough to hold me there with the expenses I was running. So I packed my gear up planning to take the bus down the hill that night, then Greyhound it back to Nevada. I went into a little bar/casino in Central City and promtly got drunk on Grand Marnier. Then I took the shuttle down to Blackhawk close to where the buses would be leaving from. I sat down at a bar in one of the joints and had another couple of drinks. Then I got caught up in the Gaming Commission's very strict "no visually impaired persons allowed on the premises" law. Someone tapped me on the shoulder and told me I had to leave. I was only 44 then and still willing to bang heads. The short of it is I wound up in jail for the night.
The judge let me go the next morning. So they sent me back to the jail to check out. But the jailer told me that a Gaming Agent put a hold on me. The jailer had gone through my belongings and found the Paymar books and the strategy cards. I could see out the jail cell as the Gaming Agent came in, sat down at a table, took Paymar's books and the strategy cards, and made copious notes on them.
I was still half drunk and at one point I tapped on the window of the cell. The Agent looked up. I yelled "Check out the Flush Attack! It's a pretty strong play!" He just went back to making more notes. Then he got up and left. He came back about an hour later and had them open up the cell.
"You gotta leave town" he said.
"I was planning to anyway."
"C'mon I'll give you a ride down to the buses. You're lucky we don't have you on film using those cards"
"Why?" I asked
"I would have charged you."
"Charged me with what?"
"Using a cheating device."
"You gotta be kiddin' me."
"No. We have strict laws against that sort of thing."
"Are you one of Romer's Christians."
"Something like that."
"Well, you guys don't know anything about gambling."
"Maybe so, but I do know one thing."
"What's that?"
"You're leavin' town!"
He dropped me off at the buses.
