Hi...
I'll be next. My name is Steve, and my wife is Karie. I am a reporter, and Karie is an assistant manager of a pizza place. We live in Topeka. We make occasional visits to Kansas City, with our favorite is Ameristar. Our favorite version of VP is multistrike, when we can get a seat at the few machines at Ameristar. We have also played Harrah's and the Isle.
We probably make more trips to the Indian casinos up north, just because they are closer. We also recently discovered a quarter craps (a new addiction...lol) game at Sac N Fox. We are low budget gamblers who take advantage of every freebee we can get our hands on.
Just an idea...the Vegas bunch gets together for lunch on a regular basis. Maybe we could set up a VPFree lunch in KC. It would be interesting to meet the people whos posts we read, and maybe share a tip or two.
I look foward to the growth of the regional group.
Steve
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Rick & Lucky Lucy <luckylucy39@earthlink.net> wrote:
OK, I will start the ball rolling. This is sort of exciting, being
the first member to post a message on a new group.
My wife, aka Lucky Lucy, and I live in Leavenworth. We are both
retired, me from Ft Leavenworth and her from a military uniform
company. We have been gamblers since the river boats hit Kansas City
and have watched the industry grow from humble beginnings to the Las
Vegas style casinos they are today. We also make two or three trips
to Las Vegas each year.
At first we were infrequent visitors to the river boats and played
only slots. (That's not quite true, the very first river boats didn't
have slots, only video poker. They could only offer games of skill
and not games of chance). Of course we steadly lost money. Then I
read an article about video poker and how it would at least stretch
our gambling money if not actually come out ahead. So we decided if
we were going to gamble we might as well make the best of it. We got
a copy of Bob Dancer's Winpoker and started practicing. Today we are
both hooked on VP can hold our own with most playable games in Kansas
City.
At first we won big time. While we were still working and had two pay
checks coming in, we could afford to gamble at a higher level. One
memorable trip to Las Vegas netted us over $9000. But, alas, those
days are gone and we are now mostly at the quarter level -- still
having a lot of fun, though.
We hit the 'boats' three or four days a week and have concentrated our
play at Harrah's and Ameristar. Overall, we like Harrah's better but
believe Ameristar has better cash back and comps. Harrah's can get
pretty crowded and smoky on weekends so we try to avoid the busy times.
Looking forward to reading about great wins in the KC area from fellow
members.
Rick
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Hope we get some more responses and can get a group together.