My First trip to Vegas Report

[Elaine_Rose]

Geez! I ran into the same guy at the Tropicana in Atlantic City. A cocktail waitress tipped her tray and dropped some of her tip money, and he picked it up and tried to keep it until she stared him down. He tried to teach me some tricks for cheating slot machines, but he was incoherent. I wasn't interested anyway.

Elaine
Harry Porter wrote:djpeterson11 wrote:

The highlight of my time at the El Cortez was when a
crackhead started following me around and talking to me about
advantage play and how he too lives off of casinos. It seems that
for him advantage play consists of dropping in the random nickel in
a slot while taking ADVANTAGE of free drinks and trying to find
loose change on the floor in the casino. He did make some
interesting points about certain slots with bonuses (e.g. this game
where a cherry pie gets filled up) that build up but he could not
convince me that they actually became positive games at the higher
levels.

I think I ran into this same player, or perhaps his twin brother
(actually, since I would have used the term crackhead, maybe it was
his twin). I ran into him at BC. He was entertaining at first, but
quickly became tiresome. I ended my play early and in attempt to
dodge him went over to the Flamingo. He followed me over. Clearly I
had been to accomodating. He proceeded to drag me around a few slots,
showing me how to "Wong" them, including I believe "Cherry Pie" and
"Piggy Banking". I finally gave him a bit of a brusque send-off and
returned to my room.

- Harry

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[djpeterson11]

The scary thing is that I can relate to what these people are
doing. They seem a little like depraved versions of me but we still
have similar aspirations: getting the basics taken care of and
making a little money from the casino. I'm better than they are,
right? This won't turn me into a decaying crackhead?

--- In vpFREE@y..., Elaine Rose <atlanticcityrose@y...> wrote:

Geez! I ran into the same guy at the Tropicana in Atlantic City. :-

) A cocktail waitress tipped her tray and dropped some of her tip
money, and he picked it up and tried to keep it until she stared him
down. He tried to teach me some tricks for cheating slot machines,
but he was incoherent. I wasn't interested anyway.

Elaine
Harry Porter wrote:djpeterson11 wrote:
> The highlight of my time at the El Cortez was when a
> crackhead started following me around and talking to me about
> advantage play and how he too lives off of casinos. It seems

that

> for him advantage play consists of dropping in the random nickel

in

> a slot while taking ADVANTAGE of free drinks and trying to find
> loose change on the floor in the casino. He did make some
> interesting points about certain slots with bonuses (e.g. this

game

> where a cherry pie gets filled up) that build up but he could

not

> convince me that they actually became positive games at the

higher

> levels.

I think I ran into this same player, or perhaps his twin brother
(actually, since I would have used the term crackhead, maybe it was
his twin). I ran into him at BC. He was entertaining at first,

but

quickly became tiresome. I ended my play early and in attempt to
dodge him went over to the Flamingo. He followed me over.

Clearly I

had been to accomodating. He proceeded to drag me around a few

slots,

showing me how to "Wong" them, including I believe "Cherry Pie" and
"Piggy Banking". I finally gave him a bit of a brusque send-off

and

returned to my room.

- Harry

I referred to him as a crackhead because he straight up told me that
he is addicted to both alcohol and crack. He too tried to follow me
out of the casino but I had to shrug him off. I was very nice to
him and actually appreciated having him around (until he awkwardly
used me to get a free drink and the security guards starting to
think we were up to something funny). It was nice to hang out with
somebody, anybody, for a while since these trips can get pretty
lonely.

[Quad_Zilla]

<<<
The scary thing is that I can relate to what these people are
doing. They seem a little like depraved versions of me but we still
have similar aspirations: getting the basics taken care of and
making a little money from the casino. I'm better than they are,
right? This won't turn me into a decaying crackhead?

  I doubt it, given the kinds of things you emphasize in
you writing, but that is not generally true of gamblers,
even those who can play with an advantage.

  Lots of advantage players have far too much 'gamble'
in them. Even those that manage to avoid the craps table, sports
book, and crack pipe can fail. When they are running good, they
spend money like it grows on trees. Or worse, they step up to
bigger games (often with smaller edges) too quickly.

  IMHO, successful professional gambling is for the
tortise, not the hare. Of course, some hares do exceedingly
well, especially in the poker world. However, for every
Johnny Chan and Stu Unger, there are probably a dozen guys
who, despite having just as good a game as these notables,
did not run good when they needed to and wound up broke.

  QZ