Congrats Joe...you deserved the win after that long hospital stay:)
Joe Pucek <pucekjoe@yahoo.com> wrote: Ashamed to admit I do not keep records, fear an IRS audit. I generally make some six trips a year to LV, count my money when I leave Dallas, count my money when I return. And I don't write that down!! I had a crummy year, but one quick story.
As I have posted here I had major surgery in LV 7/22, got out of the hospital 10/2 or therabouts, two days before my scheduled return flight to Dallas, which I had to cancel and reschedule on another airline because I needed supplemental oxygen on the plane. My wife naturally thought I stayed in LV the last week so I could hit the tables and Vp machines.
I stiffed the first hotel, Terrible's, which gave me a high roller limo ride from the hospital. I think that was a mistake on their part, I just expected the free shuttle they run. I thought I had contracted food poisoning on the plane while flying to LV, wrong, wrong, wrong. Paramedics took me to Sunrise Hospital where I had emergency surgery next morning. A couple of weeks later, while still in LV I noticed that Terrible's had charged me $82 for my room, which I did not dispute, since, I did stiff them, while checking my credit card statement online. Albeit I think I had a good excuse. Saturday, 10/10 or thereabouts I stopped in to Terrible's on my way to turn in my rental at the airport. I had only 30 minutes or so,to spare, decided to pour as much coin-in as possible, even if I had to play a game I did not know to try to get back in my hosts good graces. I was about $1K down for the trip, well below my trip bankroll which is classified information:-) After asking
various slot techs, I was escorted to the only two $5 VP machines they knew about. I had been playing a 100 play $.25 at the top of the escalator, non full pay game. Please do not report me to Bob Dancer or the VP gods for that indiscretion;-) They were two side by side uprights with five or six games available at the $1 denom, but when I touched the $5 denom icon, only ONE game was available, some kind of TDB, perhaps, dunno. Put in a benjamin, lost it, put in a second Benjamin, a hand or two later drew two fours, held them and drew three cards, two of which were fours, machine locked up, said call attendant, jackpot $3K. I told someone I was on the way to the airport, in a hurry, rhey returned with my money and paper work within ten minutes. While waiting, I put another Benjamin in the adjacent machine, second or third hand had quad eights, as I remember for $1250 and another W2-G. I collected both, made my plane with time to spare about up some$2.5K for the trip!!!
BANDSTAND54@AOL.COM wrote:y
Happy New Year
Many of you out there are reluctant or downright adamant in discussing your
win or loss total for the year.
The reasons may range from big brother watching to none of your beeswax.
Some are willing to share their down years and keep the up years private.
My curiosity focuses on how close did you come in living up to what the
"experts" said you would do... this year.
I put thru over 600k and should have donated 3k to the casinos theo wise. It
was closer to twice that amount.That does not include comps one way or the
other.
How did you do if you care to share?
Grumpy
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btw, that's an impressive, well formatted,