Has anyone gambled with bitcoin at the D?
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my understanding is you can use it for hotel desk charges ONLY. I THINK it's a NV gaming commission requirement that all gaming exchanges be done for US currency or accepted equivalent (and then only by casino grace, e.g. canadian currency), the days of pulling your mule up to the craps table and saying, "I bet my ass on the pass, " are long gone.
I stayed at the golden gate (sister to the D) a few weeks ago and asked the clerk about bitcoin. he said in the many months they've accepted it, he'd seen ONE room payment with it.
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Any different
approaches to gambling with the exchanges?
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maybe talk to your friends in enforcement beforehand in case you need a favor afterward?
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How's video poker if any?
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the D has several good plays (I'd cut the VP free URL here, but my android is being finicky). from a risk/reward/return the best might be $1 NSUD.
but how can I not mention (in fact, the reason I answered this in the 1st place), THE WORLD'S BEST VP MACHINE!?
it's a LDW variant with 101.6% return. very possibly the best non-progressive in the world. nickel credits. playing to the absolute metal is 25¢ a spin.
the downside is it's awkwardly placed in the middle of the room at the edge of an infrequently used sportsbook, with a stool instead of a chair.
but the upside is you're RIGHT NEXT TO ONE OF THE ONLY SIGNA DERBY MACHINES STILL RUNNING IN THE WORLD! forget that go-go dancer, Jackie, downstairs, the SD track is where the entertainment is.
hand pay-out when you hit that HUGE $125 SCORE (i think that's, like, ALL the nickels in the United States!) on that oh oh oh so sweet set of deuces!
and the single machine almost always open. such low stakes that you don't have to boot the sometimes-cretin-name-calling "professionals" from the roost.
I've got a million nickel deuces stories, here's but one ... my girlfriend was playing it (of course, what the hell else WOULD you play at the D? oh, what's that? you're looking for a game with LOWER mathematical return?) 2 summers ago. turns out there was a promotion going on that we didn't know about.
BING!
her machine gets picked for a drawing. what has she won? "pick an envelope, it will tell you how many balls you can drop in our prize pyramid."
4. "is that good?"
THAT'S THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE NUMBER!
the prize pyramid is actually a pyramidal peg board. I seem to remember there are prizes like, "rusted beer can" and "dirty ash tray with a chip in it" but I might be wrong.
drop the first ball.
$25 IN FREE PLAY! highest free play number on the board.
2nd ball.
FREE ROOM!
3rd ball.
$50 FOOD CREDIT! highest food credit on the board.
4th ball.
$5 cash. now, normally, if you're a 5c LDW player (and honestly, who isn't?), this would be a BONANZA of a prize. three different people in the history of the D have lost the physical hands off their bodies just from the fatigue of trying to play that much cash through. (in case you don't know the math, $5 in nickels is what i is known in the aboriginal number system as "many" [your other choices are "1" and "2"]. in modern English, we'd say "a lot.") another poor soul, put $5 in the machine by accident (she thought it was quarters ... as if ANYONE'S that rich) and had to be treated for a hernia on cash-out for the raw weight of that much MONEY. anyway, you wouldn't think that a Princeton graduate would not come out with high profanity when being given cash -for free- after being showered with so much wealth from above, but you'd be wrong. craziness can happen to people on sudden wealth engirgement. don't take my word for it, ask Donald
Trump how crazy sudden riches can make you.
it also gave her a 1/12 chance to win a sweet bubble bee painted camaro convertible (short version: she didn't).
nevertheless, look at that prize. it's 25¢ to play (actually it COULD be 5¢, but it's all about [hope you figured it out] EV, right?). let's be miserly and say the room is $25 (yeah, yeah it's a soft comp, but I'm in the middle of a story, okay?). that brings the total swag bag to a brimming $105.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS!
(if you can steal stuff out of the mini bar on your free stay -- NOT THAT I WOULD DO THAT -- it's even more.)
do you have ANY idea how much that is? that's MORE than a hundred dollars. that's slightly more than a million nickels. it's three nickels more than all the coins ever minted.
25¢ a pull. $105 BONUS. think about it.
if you're playing $25 a pull (you know who you are), to do the equivalent you'd have to:
1. score a $52,500 bonus.
2. find a wagon big enough to get those 1,050,000 nickels back home.
seriously, you should the frugal gambler (you're welcome, Jean) if you want to understand the nuances of playing versus having fun. she's got a good vignette in there ... and no, I don't care if it's made up.
or, to answer your question more directly, the video poker's pretty good.

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