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A good time was had by all at the VP Free Detroit meet yesterday. We met at the MGM buffet. Thanks to Ann Arbor Bob for providing some extra buffet coupons.? There were 9 of us all together:

VP Pappy and Mrs. Pappy
Tom from Canton
Preston
Nick, Mrs. Nick and another friend of their ( I'm bad with names)
John and Peggy.

Nick had to go and get his wife and friend from the machines so got split up. This actually worked out because MGM will hit you with an 18% automatic gratuity on parties of 8 or more. I think that is robbery at a buffet.? We did end up sitting only a couple tables apart so it all worked out. The wait was about 45 minutes because it was crab leg night. For me, a 45 minute wait for snow crab legs isn't worth it. However, the rest of the spread is pretty tasty. $32.99 is high for a buffet but there were plenty of people there. I'm sure there were a lot of freebie coupons plus there was a Tiger game so that might have been some of the traffic.

Afterwards, Peg and went to Greektown ( now about 8 PM). Peg assured me that we would leave by 10 at the latest. Well, Peg sat down at the Bonus Deuces progressive , $1650 when she sat down, and I sat down at the poker table. At 11:00 PM, Peg calls me to ask when we are leaving. I was in a hand and was involved in the next 2 hands so I called her back 10 minutes later. The phone was ringing when she hit the progressive for $1730. 35 minutes later, when she finally got paid, she wandered over to the $0.02 quick hits and hit for $250 more by getting 7 of the 9 quick hit symbols. 8 would have been $2000 and 9 would have been $11,000. We ended up leaving about 12:30 AM.

All in all, a good night.

At? Greektown, we noticed the $1 progressive bar on the second floor is no more. Also, there is major work on the first floor. I hope the $ progressive returns. That is a fun play even if the meter is pretty slow.

One more thing about Greektown. Comps do expire, even if you play. I'm sure of the actual duration but if you play a bunch in January and then play every month after that and take no comps, the amount earned in January does disappear. I'm guessing it is 6 months but that has not been confirmed.
Use them as you go.

The next meeting will probably be in July. Hope to see you all at the next gathering.

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#2

I too hit it big. I hit for over 4,000 credits on a slot machine!
Unfortunately, it was a 2 cent one while waiting for Dolores to come
out of a rest room at MGM. The damn thing rang up credits for about
five minutes and people kept comimg over to take a look, then laugh
at me. Still, I had another five minutes of fame.

I also hit 5 more quads playing Pick'Em. (3 at MGM and 2 at GT) We
left GT at around 12:30a.m. bleary/red-eyed, (from all the smoke) but
satisfied for having wasted another day in our lives gambling in
Detroit.

Terry

"There is a very fine line between gambling and mental illness."
--VP Pappy

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--- In vpFREE_Detroit@yahoogroups.com, greeklandjohnny@... wrote:

A good time was had by all at the VP Free Detroit meet yesterday.

We met at the MGM buffet. Thanks to Ann Arbor Bob for providing some
extra buffet coupons.? There were 9 of us all together:

VP Pappy and Mrs. Pappy
Tom from Canton
Preston
Nick, Mrs. Nick and another friend of their ( I'm bad with names)
John and Peggy.

Nick had to go and get his wife and friend from the machines so got

split up. This actually worked out because MGM will hit you with an
18% automatic gratuity on parties of 8 or more. I think that is
robbery at a buffet.? We did end up sitting only a couple tables
apart so it all worked out. The wait was about 45 minutes because it
was crab leg night. For me, a 45 minute wait for snow crab legs isn't
worth it. However, the rest of the spread is pretty tasty. $32.99 is
high for a buffet but there were plenty of people there. I'm sure
there were a lot of freebie coupons plus there was a Tiger game so
that might have been some of the traffic.

Afterwards, Peg and went to Greektown ( now about 8 PM). Peg

assured me that we would leave by 10 at the latest. Well, Peg sat
down at the Bonus Deuces progressive , $1650 when she sat down, and I
sat down at the poker table. At 11:00 PM, Peg calls me to ask when we
are leaving. I was in a hand and was involved in the next 2 hands so
I called her back 10 minutes later. The phone was ringing when she
hit the progressive for $1730. 35 minutes later, when she finally got
paid, she wandered over to the $0.02 quick hits and hit for $250 more
by getting 7 of the 9 quick hit symbols. 8 would have been $2000 and
9 would have been $11,000. We ended up leaving about 12:30 AM.

All in all, a good night.

At? Greektown, we noticed the $1 progressive bar on the second

floor is no more. Also, there is major work on the first floor. I
hope the $ progressive returns. That is a fun play even if the meter
is pretty slow.

One more thing about Greektown. Comps do expire, even if you play.

I'm sure of the actual duration but if you play a bunch in January
and then play every month after that and take no comps, the amount
earned in January does disappear. I'm guessing it is 6 months but
that has not been confirmed.

Use them as you go.

The next meeting will probably be in July. Hope to see you all at

the next gathering.

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