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More Poker Stuff for Mickey Crimm

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9b. Re: More Poker Stuff for Mickey Crimm
Date: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:19 pm ((PDT))

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, george lee wrote:
>
> One correction I could offer is OK's reference to
> low-limit no-limit
> hold'em (LLNLH). The correct term is "SMALL BLIND
> no-limit hold 'em". To call it "Limit" and "No-limit"
> is oxymoronic.

In addition to low blinds many NLH games have a capped buy in. I
have seen 1/2 games with a capped buy in of as low as $100 and 2/5
games with as low as $500. It may be oxymoronic or just plain
moronic, but it does in effect put a limit on a no limit game.
>

I play in 1/2 and 2/5 no limit games regularly, and they always have minimum and maximum buy-ins everywhere I've been so far; I also occ. play with 5/10 blinds, and that game usually has a min. but no max. buy-in. On the "smaller" games, while it's true the buy-in is capped, this does not mean that there is a limit on bet size. These games often have very large stacks of chips at the table, as players lose their stack and either re-buy, or new players come to the table, so the amount of money in front of some of the players can be quite significant, depending on how long the game has been running and how long the winners have been sitting there.

Re: the previous post about cheating in the 60's, I've read many accounts of that going on, so there is undoubtedly some truth to it. With gambling being pretty "seedy" back then in the eyes of most of the public, no surprise -- or maybe it's vice versa.

PS - I enjoy the poker posts; hope they are permitted as long as they don't dominate the VP discussions.

--BG

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#2

PS - I enjoy the poker posts; hope they are permitted as long as they

don't dominate the VP discussion.

Video poker and live poker are a great one-two punch. Wendover is the
example for me. $80,000 in action gets me a weeks worth of rooms and
meals on the Peppermill properties. I actually play video BJ there but
it's the same principle. The best VP game is NSUD which would be a
theoretical loss of about $200 on $80,000 in action. That's cheaper
than paying for everything. Then I take the win out of the poker
rooms.

The Wendover Nugget has dollar and quarter 9/6 jacks progressives
with .5% meters. The comp meter is .5% which can be used for
rooms/meals/gift shop. I don't wait for real big numbers on the dollar
progressive. $6,000 is good enough for me because of the room comp. I
My comp meter is at $700 presently, which is good for about 3 1/2 weeks
worth of rooms. And to top it all off I've been luckier than an
outhouse mouse in the place. One royal after another in the last
year. About $60,000 total at a cost of less than $10,000. The casino
pest, er, host follows me around like a little puppy dog. Lately, he's
been putting me in the rooms with no charge to my comp account. He
doesn't know it but he doesn't have any outs. They ain't gettin' the
money back.

I've been floating for about 1 1/2 years this time with no permanent
residence. "Free Rent" is probably an oxymoran but the way I look at
it is money I don't have to spend is money I made. I don't get a total
free ride as I go to some spots where comp is not available or the vp
games are not good enought to defray the cost.

My good buddy Al, when he was living in Reno and flying back and forth
between there and Vegas, defrayed his expenses by running the requisite
video poker action at the soft spots for room comp, Golden Nugget,
Vegas Club, 4 Queens, Fitzgerald's, Tuscany, etc. Through the mailers
he could usually get about 2 weeks free every month. He also bought
his plane tickets in bulk, usually 18 at a time for a huge discount.
Then he would go about taking his win at the poker tables.

So video poker/live poker can be a great one-two punch for some of us.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, b.glazer@... wrote:

#3

He also bought

his plane tickets in bulk, usually 18 at a time for a huge

discount.

"tickets in bulk"? Never heard of that except for a group. how would
that work and is it available today?

Cheers

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mickeycrimm" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:

#4

Al told me that he bought as many as 18 one-way "open date" tickets
between Reno and Las Vegas from Southwest Airlines. But I'm sure they
had an expiration date if he did not use them all. He is an online
shopper so I'm sure thats how he found the deal. I had a similar deal
with the airline that used to fly back and forth from Las Vegas to Elko
(this goes back several years) Scenic Airlines had a similar deal for
flying between North Las Vegas and Ely, but I didn't take them up on
the offer.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "whitejeeps" <whitejeeps@...> wrote:

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mickeycrimm" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:

He also bought
> his plane tickets in bulk, usually 18 at a time for a huge
discount.
>

"tickets in bulk"? Never heard of that except for a group. how would
that work and is it available today?

Cheers