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#1

In a message dated 10/17/2005 5:13:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bobfpdw@yahoo.com writes:

...What is the longest session you
have ever endured and how did you come away feeling about it?

Earlier this year when I was laid up ("keep off your feet for two months!!")
with a broken foot, I stayed for three weeks at the Orleans in Las Vegas.
As a resident I was told they could give me no help unless I put in $60,000
coin through. So I set about it and since I was down in the dumps and bored, I
just played and played and.. well, you get the picture. I certainly had ten
hour sessions.

I'm a bridge player, so I'm used to long sessions of play - we play
tournaments where 8 hours a day is quite normal. I guess this is why I didn't feel
exhausted by those long sessions. I did fine, starting out losing a LOT but
ending with two Royals in the last week to get ahead. I enjoy staying focused
and playing for very long sessions - it's part of what I love about VP.

Karen

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#2

Many years ago, playing at the Las Vegas Club, downtown, there was a
massive progressive and a group of team players. To prevent the team
from occupying all seats, the casino instituted a waiting list, and
only the next name up could get a vacated seat, etc.
My wife and I were playing and we stubbornly decided to NOT give up
our seats and therefore, we played continuously for approx 22 hours.
Needless to say, we were exhausted and we did NOT hit the progressive
(over $4000 on a 25c play) The casino allowed only 5 minute toilet
breaks and no food breaks. (((We were MUCH younger)))

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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:17:32 EDT, you wrote:

In a message dated 10/17/2005 5:13:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bobfpdw@yahoo.com writes:

...What is the longest session you
have ever endured and how did you come away feeling about it?

Earlier this year when I was laid up ("keep off your feet for two months!!")
with a broken foot, I stayed for three weeks at the Orleans in Las Vegas.
As a resident I was told they could give me no help unless I put in $60,000
coin through. So I set about it and since I was down in the dumps and bored, I
just played and played and.. well, you get the picture. I certainly had ten
hour sessions.

I'm a bridge player, so I'm used to long sessions of play - we play
tournaments where 8 hours a day is quite normal. I guess this is why I didn't feel
exhausted by those long sessions. I did fine, starting out losing a LOT but
ending with two Royals in the last week to get ahead. I enjoy staying focused
and playing for very long sessions - it's part of what I love about VP.

Karen

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#3

Thank heavens you weren't constipated!!

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In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Elliott L. Shapiro elliotts2345@e..wrote:

........ To prevent the team from occupying all seats, the casino
instituted a waiting list, and only the next name up could get a
vacated seat, etc. My wife and I were playing and we stubbornly
decided to NOT give up our seats and therefore, we played continuously
for approx 22 hours.......... The casino allowed only 5 minute toilet
breaks and no food breaks. ((We were MUCH younger.

#4

Elliott L. Shapiro wrote:

Many years ago, playing at the Las Vegas Club, downtown, there was a
massive progressive and a group of team players. To prevent the
team from occupying all seats, the casino instituted a waiting list,
and only the next name up could get a vacated seat, etc.
My wife and I were playing and we stubbornly decided to NOT give up
our seats and therefore, we played continuously for approx 22 hours.
Needless to say, we were exhausted and we did NOT hit the
progressive (over $4000 on a 25c play) The casino allowed only 5
minute toilet breaks and no food breaks. (((We were MUCH younger)))

Elliott, that's a tale that might well have inspired the movie, "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

- H.