As Karen says, the analogy is flawed. If a restaurant gets extremely
popular, the owners are happy, make more money, and they can EXPAND the business if
they wish (or open another restaurant). If a great VP play gets extremely
popular, the casino is unhappy, loses money, and the play is pulled. Totally
different forces at work.
This does not alter the fact that Grump's conclusion is correct, which is
that publicly sharing a great VP play is foolish, at least for the participants.
As for non-participants, my suggestion is that you just tell your "inner
circle" of VP-playing friends, a few of whom might wish to participate. Or keep
it to yourself, save your money, and maybe someday... 
In my experience, people who complain about nondisclosure are either looking
for a free lunch, or it's sour grapes that they were not able to take
advantage of the play themselves. Or they don't like the person who failed to
disclose, and use that as an excuse to say less-than-complimentary things about
that person.
Brian
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In a message dated 2/28/2008 8:14:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
krallison416@aol.com writes:
In a message dated 2/28/2008 7:22:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
BANDSTAND54@AOL.COM writes:
Let's say you find a great little restaurant and you tell everyone you know
about it. Next thing you know you cannot get near the place. In retrospect
would you have been a walking advertisement.would you have been a walking
adve
destined for sainthood.
There's quite a difference here. You tell everyone because you don't want
the restaurant to go out of business and if you tell everyone, at least you
CAN eat there periodically instead of finding a darkened storefront.
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