HEY BRUCE-
yes- Me, son unit #2, my sister and mother are all still hooked on tournament scrabble & son unit has moved up to the top 15 in North america when he won a big tourney this last month. He's 22 now, lives in another city, has a girlfriend, etc., so papa (ranked about #600) don't pay his travel & entry fees to the big tourneys all over the country like I used to, but it is nice to get him a room or a suite for the Reno scrabble tourneys in Jan and July every year. I still steal partial credit for his skill- some of the lower ranked players think I taught him scrabble, so they give me too much respect in the game & I can get away with a phony word or two- HA!
yeah- I say I ain't a high roller, but I've been playing 25c,50c,$1 denom on single,3 & 5-lines plus a little adventurous $2 & $5 denom single line for a couple years now; fast & for 10-12 hrs a day on my vp-only trips. Free-play offers are for $300-$600 at Pepps, Silver & GSR. I think there is some element of "bounce-back cash" as I've lost big at all 3 joints on one or two trips in the past couple years. The comped food & suites are not "ho-hum" but they aren't quite as special as in past years. Oh yeah- I got a girlfriend now, for over 2 yrs, and she's hit a few quad ducks playin deuces wild, so I've learned to get in synch with her on trips, but I still go solo every other visit.
Oh & I'll be all retired within a year, after 34 years at the same big company in seattle, at the ripe age of 55. Dumbest, frequent question from acquaintances: "What are you going to do?" (whatever pops into my head when I wake up! no more schedule nor rat race commute, whew)
thanks for the softball- got me out of the shadows and chatting it up again.
~Murk
--Avantemed@... wrote:
Mark
thanks for the post are you still doing the Scrabble Tourneys with your
Son?
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low roller too
Bruce
In a message dated 3/8/2012,
mark_my_words_again@... writes:
Hey TimSpeed & everybody-
I'm around & lurking on the board, haven't given up vP certainly, just
nothing too inspiring to write it up. I'm down to 4 or 5 4-5 day visits to
reno per year. I owe about 10 trip reports which I might just be able to
recreate from my index card logs & photos. But, it'll be a few more months til i
have time. Trips have been to GSR, Pepps & Silver. Altho the games at GSR
are sucky (BP & DDB) I do benefit from their downloadable cash points and
generous freeplay offers. Silver is now on board with downloadable token
player club % and regular free play. Pepps still has freeplay & i like to
check points there now.
So, yes I'll cough up numbers & stats & etc, but I'm hardly a high roller.
well, maybe for reno.
thanks for calling me out!
~Mark time