I agree, there is no need to have attention focused on yourself for no
reason (sympathy not needed here!). I just thought it was interesting
that my strategy card, the one thing that will swing the odds in my
favor, was left alone.
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-----Original Message-----
From: TedChee@aol.com [mailto:TedC…@…com]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 7:59 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] DON'T USE PDAs IN A CASINO
In a message dated 12/18/2004 9:33:17 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
<<<One interesting thing did happen while I was there. I always carry
a
Pocket PC which has Excel. I store the paytable pecentages of all
games in one spreadsheet and I keep a gaming log in another. When I
am bored or I am going to play for a long time I will keep track of
4K, SF and RF. With Pickem I was also track the Straights, Full
houses and flushes. This means that every 10 or 15 minutes I will
turn on the PPC and update my "score". After about an hour I had a
security officer come over and they told me that I couldn't use this
in the casino. No problem (I've only had this happen one other time
in two years). I politely said I wouldn't use it anymore. I then
pulled out a pen and paper and started tracking the old fashion way.
Well after another 30 minutes, I had 2 security guards come over and
they confiscate the paper (I offered the pen as well but they said I
could keep that!). Never had that happen before! After another 15
minutes 4 of them came back again and asked me for my ID (I was
starting to become a hit!). They wrote down my details and then left
me alone.
The ironic thing about all this, is that I always play with a
strategy card which I sit on the machine in plain view. They didn't
seem to care about this. Very strange. I guess us 25c PKM players
are more dangerous to the casino than I thought!>>>
You won't get any sympathy from me. I've advocated before against using
PDAs
in casinos.
Even if it was a first-generation Newton, you still would have gotten
the
same response.
You & everyone else on this board may know that you're innocent of any
wrongdoing but we're not the ones you have to prove it to. Casinos have
been
burned so often that it's a knee-jerk response for Security to adopt a
zero-tolerance policy to electronic devices.
What we have is a culture clash. No amount of logic is going to bridge
that
divide. The smart response is to recognize it & don't try to force the
issue..
Save the energy for a battle that's worth winning.
I've also got a PPC w/Excel but always kept stats on paper for entry
later.
The only contact I ever had with Security was when they were kind enough
to
baby sit my machine.
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