Hi,
Just wonder if you can post this one to the Atlantic city group? I am a subsriber of that group.
Hi all,
Have been playing VPs for more than two years and have read every post from the AC group. But never post one myself.
Enjoy most posts, esp. those wonderful trip reports.
Just came back from a two-night stay at Bally's. By basically picking up free plays around the town gave me a $500-plus profit for the trip.
Two things want to share here:
1) Tropicana is giving new players who have premium card from other casinos (in my case, Diamond in Harrah's) $50 free play by signing up.
However, I have not figured out their point system yet. Played nearly two hours $1 JOB (~600 hands per hour) only got me 3 pts.
2) Though never regard a gambler myself, we probably have to admit that more or less, we have that factor in our blood. Otherwise why we spend time and risk money on VPs? On the first night staying at Bally's, read an article in the CasinoPlayer magazine, and found the Archie Karas' story quite intriguing. After googling his name, I found there is a series of interviews worth reading, here is the link for those might be interested:
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/02/sextons-corner-31-archie-karas-part-1.htm
there are 10 parts, you can just change the volumn number (from 31 to 40) in the search box to get them one by one.
I've learned from "Whale hunt In the Desert" that late Australian billionaire Kerry Packer once won $26 million playing BJ in a couple of hours at MGM.
I've also learned from "the Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King" that one rich Texas banker, Andy Beal, played some top pros $100,000-$200,000 limit hold'em heads-up. But the truely amazing thing is that Archie Karas is never as close as rich to the above two. In that sense he is the biggest gambler that I've ever heard of.
Henry from MA
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