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DIAD compendium (was DIAD ?s)

#1

did you both play with the machine set on "high"?

yes. we both "2-manned" the same, single, machine 3-play machine set on the fastest setting (she played the left picks, I played the right and the draw). but honestly, our play wasn't THAT fast. anyone who has played more than a couple of years would have EASILY kept up with what we were doing...either as a spectator or as a player. our absolute goal was to play perfect and we missed by 3 plays in 2000. 0.15% (assuming there wasn't an error we BOTH missed after the fact ... which is POSSIBLE, but not likely...we've learned VP in different ways...i think of charts from the top-down, she thinks of them from the bottom-up).

as an aside, I've watched MANY MANY people play VP, and ALL people I've seen who play break-neck speeds, I've seen make mistakes...including very "famous" VP players (yes, including the people you're thinking of right now). I'm not talking about crazy penalty card things or 1-in-a-jillion hands; I'm talking about straight forward stuff like middle suited connectors with a 2 on FPDW, or playing an A only on an AK board in 9/6 JoB.

to be very clear, this isn't me not keeping-up, or me misreading boards, it's them making mistakes.

there's a few, somewhat slower players, I've NEVER seen make a mistake.

I'm certain speed induces errors. I know there would have been many times more in my play if my GF hadn't have been right there with me.

but honestly it didn't feel break neck in the least...it was studious, but comfortable, 3 hours.

#2

so here's what's happened since i earned the DIAD,

several days after earning my DIAD, i looked on (what used to be called) myharrahs.com and noticed that they still showed me as a gold member. the online Q&A was no help as to why this might be true, so i sent fired off a message asking why.

three business days later they claimed that since i hadn't earned my DIAD at my home property, it took time to process properly (my words, not theirs, but certainly their intent). the next day myharrahs showed me as a diamond member. (i'd say the amount of time it takes to process properly is however fast it takes to react when you get kicked in the shins by email.)

now what's interesting is i'm not showing diamond everywhere. yes, myharrahs shows diamond. so does my newest card (which has an expiration of 3/13, thank you very much). BUT the swiping kiosk in the flamingo (i'm talking about the wall board displays sprinkled down the aisle near the registration desk) states my status as gold when you stop to decode the computerese that's at the bottom of the display screen.

(and, just for the record, i'm also showing no offers of any type ... and haven't since earning DIAD.)

my advice is if you do earn your DIAD to write to the caesars folks (use the form here https://totalrewards.custhelp.com/app/ask/list) and inform them of your great advance.

for what it's worth,
m.

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